If music makes you smart and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into a person who is better at learning and understanding.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers. They found that person who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons did much better in language ability (能力 ) tests than without music.

The volunteers said they felt better after exercising with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled ( 加倍) after listening to the music during exercise.” Exercise seems  to cause positive changes in the nervous system (神经系统 ) and have a direct result on learning ability,” said the psychologist Charles Emery. Scientists have found that music can be good for health and education. It helps relieve stress, sadness and nervousness, encourages relaxation or sleep, wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.

Psychologists have been using Mozart’s music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech disorders ( 言语能力紊乱).  Mozart is often chosen because his music is not over-exciting. A study shouted students who often exercise to Mozart’s music go on to score higher marks in tests. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.

46.What does the underlined word “relieve” mean in Chinese?

A. 加强              B.减轻             C.提高             D.接替

47.How many great musicians are mentioned in the passage?

A. Two               B. There             C. Four.          D. Thirty-three

48.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Students should not listen to music before exams.

B. Children are supposed to follow their parents’ words .

C. Music may help student to get higher grades in tests.

D. There is no reason for children to argue with parents.

49.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Scientists often use Mozart’s music for it is really exciting.

B. Music usually makes people too excited to go to sleep.

C. Exercising without music seems to cause many negative changes.

D. Students can improve their studies greatly after exercising to music.

50.Which is the BEST title for this passage?

A. Scientists suggest great music.

B. Music and exercise lead to stress.

C. Exercising to music makes you smarter.

D. Volunteers listened to Mozart’s violin pieces.

If music makes you smart and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into a person who is better at learning and understanding.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers. They found that person who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons did much better in language ability (能力 ) tests than without music.

The volunteers said they felt better after exercising with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled ( 加倍) after listening to the music during exercise.” Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system (神经系统 ) and have a direct result on learning ability,” said the psychologist Charles Emery. Scientists have found that music can be good for health and education. It helps relieve stress, sadness and nervousness, encourages relaxation or sleep, wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.

Psychologists have been using Mozart’s music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech disorders ( 言语能力紊乱).  Mozart is often chosen because his music is not over-exciting. A study shouted students who often exercise to Mozart’s music go on to score higher marks in tests. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.

76What does the underlined word “relieve” mean in Chinese?

A.加强            B.减轻            C.提高        D.接替

77.How many great musicians are mentioned in the passage?

A. Two            B. There          C. Four.       D. Thirty-three

78.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Students should not listen to music before exams.

B. Children are supposed to follow their parents’ words .

C. Music may help student to get higher grades in tests.  

D. There is no reason for children to argue with parents.

79.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Scientists often use Mozart’s music for it is really exciting.

B. Music usually makes people too excited to go to sleep.

C. Exercising without music seems to cause many negative changes.

D. Students can improve their studies greatly after exercising to music.

80.Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Scientists suggest great music.                    B. Music and exercise lead to stress.

C. Exercising to music makes you smarter.       D. Volunteers listened to Mozart’s violin pieces.

How should one invest a sum of money in these clays of inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques.
I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. "The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people's wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves（奴隶）."
Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring（量） the time of clay according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout tire time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.
However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable（可靠的） ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past.
Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit（收益）?
【小题1】According to the passage, collecting antique clocks____.