I hear many parents say that their teenagers（十几岁的少年）are too independent. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.

    They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But the reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon（蚕茧）?--into a larger cocoon.

　　It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award（奖励）high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.

　　But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical（古典的）music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come—with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.

(1) The writer’s purpose in writing this text is to tell ________.

[　　]

A．readers how to be popular in the world

B．teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves

C．parents bow to control and guide their children

D．people how to understand and respect each other

(2) Teenagers should ________, according to the text.

[　　]

A．rebel against their parents

B．find their real self

C．become different from others in as many ways as possible

D．obey what their parents say

(3) Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

[　　]

A．People will respect you if you share your thought with others.

B．Some parents are actually keeping their children from finding their own paths.

C．It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.

D．Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are not doing the same.

(4) What does the underlined word“counts”mean?

[　　]

A．To recite or list numbers.

B．To have value or importance.

C．To share some thoughts.

D．To be different.

Whether you admit it or not, music improves our daily life and makes us feel easy, especially the music of Beethoven（贝多芬）, Mozart（莫扎特）. But can you believe that a school in England is using classical music to cut down on（减少） students' bad behavior?

The head teacher Brian Walker at the West Park School in Derby asks some students to stay behind after school on Fridays. He forces his students to listen to Mozart and other classical（古典的） music. He also makes them copy（抄写） his favorite poems and they have to watch educational videos.

Mr. Walker says his main aim is to stop noisy pupils causing trouble in class for students who want to study. He said the students staying behind were "not the smokers or drinkers, the truants (逃学的学生 ) or the people who are late for school... It's those who have slowed the learning and teaching in class for everyone". Mr. Walker said this was unacceptable, because it was making the rest of the students distract（转移） their attention on their study.

Mr. Walker believes what he does reminds students that education is something to value. "It helps them see they are part of something bigger that will improve their life chances," he said. The head teacher thinks students in fact learn from being kept behind after school. "Hopefully, I open their ears to an experience they don't normally have and...don't want to have again, so it's both educational and acts as a warning."

Music has had success elsewhere in reducing bad behavior. In 2004, it reduced crime（犯罪） on London's subway by 25 percent. Researchers from a Belfast university found it helped stop elephants' bad behavior. 　

However, one West Park student called Kieran said, "An hour of Mr. Walker's music is a real killer."

71. Mr. Walker asks his students to listen to music to _______________.

A. make them rest after a day's study

B. punish them for their bad behavior

C. get them to love arts gradually

D. reduce their bad behavior

72. A student who _____may be left behind to listen to Mozart after class.

A. plays truant　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 　　　 B. smokes in class　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

C. bothers（打扰）others in class　　　　　　　 　　　 D. comes late for class

73. Why does Mr. Walker say some students' bad behavior is unacceptable?

A. Because the rest of the students hate them.

B. Because they are wasting their life.

C. Because they are disturbing teachers.

D. Because they have a bad influence on the other students.

74. In the eyes of Mr. Walker,_____.

A. some students don't realize education is valuable

B. all students can learn from music

C. music must be taught after class

D. students ought to love music

75. It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that_____.

A. the action Mr. Walker takes doesn't really work as planned

B. Mr. Walker aims to tell students study is important

C. once music helped animals behave well

D. animals also like to listen to music

    为了丰富外国留学生的生活，你校将举行一次音乐周活动。请你以组织者的身份写一个书面通知。有关内容如下：

  时间：10月第一周；

  活动：1．演唱歌曲：流行歌曲；

    2．器乐演奏：古典和民间音乐；

　　    3．音乐比赛：听歌曲片段，然后猜出处。

  地点：待定(以后通知)

  参加者请于10月1日之前报名。

  注意：1．词数100左右

　　    2．生词：古典的classical；民间folk；比赛contest

　　    3．通知格式已为你写好。

Oct. 10, 2003

Dear students,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

Come to the great fun!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    The Students' Union

 

　　I hear many parents say that their teenagers（十几岁的少年）are too independent. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.

    They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But the reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon（蚕茧）?--into a larger cocoon.

　　It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award（奖励）high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.

　　But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical（古典的）music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come—with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.

(1) The writer’s purpose in writing this text is to tell ________.

[　　]

A．readers how to be popular in the world

B．teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves

C．parents bow to control and guide their children

D．people how to understand and respect each other

(2) Teenagers should ________, according to the text.

[　　]

A．rebel against their parents

B．find their real self

C．become different from others in as many ways as possible

D．obey what their parents say

(3) Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

[　　]

A．People will respect you if you share your thought with others.

B．Some parents are actually keeping their children from finding their own paths.

C．It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.

D．Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are not doing the same.

(4) What does the underlined word“counts”mean?

[　　]

A．To recite or list numbers.

B．To have value or importance.

C．To share some thoughts.

D．To be different.