The nose is important for everyone. It can help a person breathe and smell. In fact,it can also be used in many popular expressions.

      Some people can lead other people by the nose. For example, if a wife leads her husband by the nose, she can ask him to do whatever she wants him to do.

      Some people are said to be hard--nosed. They will not change their opinions of anything.

      If some people keep their noses out of other people’s business, they do not interfere

(     ) in anything that has nothing to do with them. The opposite kind of people are those who nose around all the time. They are interested in other people’s personal life.

      If someone works hard, he can keep his nose clean or stay out of trouble. How ever, more problems will be caused if a person looks down his nose at others or some things. He thinks they are unimportant. This kind of person might also turn up his nose at anything that he doesn’t consider good enough. He thinks he is better than anyone else.

      At school, some students thumb their noses at their teacher. They refuse to follow what their teacher says or do any work. Of course, it is not right for students to do like this.

    根据材料内容，从下面方框中选出恰当的短语完成下面五个小题，使句子通顺、意思完整。每个短语限用一次。

1. I don’t want to make friends with David because he always       

2. Maggie likes to talk about others and      

3.My brother used to        , but now he can listen to others’ advice.

4. Bob and Andy usually        at their parents.

5.Michael works hard all the time, so he can        

Hearing is very important to all of us. We can  36  beautiful music, nice songs of birds, the laughter of people or other different kinds of   37   in the world with our ears.   38  we must try to protect our ears. The following will tell you    39  protect ears.
Listening to   40  music a lot can be bad for ears,   41  when headphones（耳机）are used. So try not to wear headphones or   42  the volume（音量）when you’re wearing headphones. You should give your ears a rest if you like wearing headphones.
  43   swimming, remember  44   earplugs（耳塞）into your ears or wear a swim hat to stop water   45  getting into your ears. If you go to a concert, wear earplugs to protect your ears from the terrible music!   46  , special earplugs can be made for you if you go to concerts a lot or if you are a musician yourself. See a    47   if your ears hurt. You’d better   48   as what the doctor says.   49  the suggestions above now and you won’t say  “What, what…?” when you are getting   50  .
【小题1】A. listen                 B. hear            C. listening
【小题2】A. sounds             B. noise            C. voices
【小题3】A. Because            B. Although        C. So
【小题4】A. what to                B. how         C. how to
【小题5】A. loud               B. aloud       C. loudly
【小题6】A. specially              B. especially       C. special
【小题7】A. turn off           B. turn down        C. turn up
【小题8】A. Before             B. After           C. When
【小题9】A. put                B. to put          C. putting
【小题10】A. to                    B. with                C. from
【小题11】A. In fact               B. For example         C. Even though
【小题12】A. teacher               B. doctor              C. friend
【小题13】A. to do                 B. doing           C. do
【小题14】A. Listen                B. Hear                C. Follow
【小题15】A. young             B. old             C. sick

--Oh, the music is wonderful. Would you please _______ the radio?

---All right.

A．turn on           B．turn off           C．turn up           D．turn down

Please    the radio, Let’s listen to the morning news.

A．turn off           B．turn up           C．turn down         D．turn on

--- Jack, please don’t play the CD, or please ________. Father is sleeping.

--- OK. No problem.

A．turn it down       B．turn down it        C．turn it up          D．turn up it