Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments（樂器） are beautiful to all people everywhere.

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios（收音機） with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers (揚聲器) and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.

Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics(政治), and activities of the American people. But most of the radio broadcast(廣播) is music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.

Besides pop music, there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common（平凡的）life of Americans. The other is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.

1.In America, every student likes ______.

A. folk music B. country music

C. pop music D. western music

2.According to the passage, most of the car radio broadcast is ______.

A. sports B. the weather C. politics D. music

3.How many kinds of music are mentioned(提到) in the passage?

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.

4.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Music in America B. Music Listeners

C. Cowboys in America D. International Language

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Beijing plans to keep a tight rule on pollution by cutting emissions caused by industrial production and vehicles when it hosts the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November.

From November 3 to 12, the city will restrict the use of private vehicles based on even?and odd?numbered license plates, reducing the use of such vehicles by 35 percent, the municipal (市政府的) traffic committee said on Thursday.

All vehicles transporting construction waste and dangerous chemicals will be banned from the capital's roads during this period, but the restriction will not apply to buses, taxis and other vehicles such as police cars.

The measures are similar to those introduced from July 20 to Sept. 20 in 2008 during the Beijing Olympic Games.

“The number of passengers using public transport will increase by 3 million a day, ” said Li Shaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau.

During the 10 days, 400 additional buses will be used to transport commuters to meet the increased demands.

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Zhuang Zhidong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, said, “From Nov. 3, production at some companies listed by the government will be suspended for 10 days.”

Work will also be suspended at all construction sites and on demolition projects during this period.

“More importantly, Beijing will work with its neighbors to control emissions，” Zhuang said, adding that there will be regular discussion on air pollution among six governments.

Neighboring authorities in Tianjin Municipality, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will operate strict pollution control measures over the 10 days.

Media reports said that from Nov. 7 to 12, employee departments, institutes and social organizations in Beijing can have a holiday, except for departments dealing with the APEC meeting and city management.

1.What can we learn from the passage?

A．Cars can't be used in Beijing from November 3 to 12.

B．Not all the people in Beijing can have a holiday from November 7 to 12.

C．Citizens will choose buses as their only means of transport.

D．All the neighboring provinces will take the same measures.

2.What is the purpose of the vehicle restriction?

A．To reduce the emissions caused by vehicles.

B．To call on people to use public transport.

C．To advocate a new lifestyle.

D．To display the friendliness of Beijing people.

3.The underlined word “suspended” (Paragraph 8) probably means “________”．

A．delayed B．continued

C．completed D．reduced

4.Where can you probably read the passage?

A．In a travel guide. B．In a research paper.

C．In a newspaper. D．In a literature magazine.

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Women are friendly. But men are more competitive. Why? Researchers have found it's all down to the hormone oxytocin (荷爾蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.

“Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others. But men tend to be competitive. They are trying to improve their social status,” said Professor Ryan.

Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互動) such as falling in love or giving birth.

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After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.

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The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men’s ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.

Professor Ryan thus concluded: “Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish many kinds of social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal.”

1.What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?

A. Placebo. B. Oxytocin.

C. The gesture. D. The social status.

2.What can we learn from Professor Ryan's former experiment?

A. Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.

B. Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.

C. Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others’ success.

D. Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences.

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A. To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.

B. To know the differences between friendship and competition.

C. To know people’s different abilities to answer questions.

D. To test people’s understanding of body language.

4.The underlined word “distinguish” has the closest meaning to ______.

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5.The author develops the text by______.

A. explaining people’s behaviors

B. describing his own experiences

C. distinguishing sexual differences

D. discussing research experiments

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Are you truly happy? __ 1._ .

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Looking forward to receive your early reply!

Regards,

Li Hua

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