Throughout time, people have loved music for its ability to transport them into a world of rhythm and melody. Recently more and more hospitals and clinics have been tapping into the power of music –not only to comfort patients, but to help cure them as well. Welcome to the world of music therapy(疗法).

After each of the two world wars, musicians visited hospitals and played instruments for injured soldiers suffering from emotional and physical pain. Today's music therapists continue this practice, playing instruments such as guitars and harps to bring comfort to their audiences.

Therapist Eric Mammen encourages his patients at a children’s hospital to participate with him as he plays. During visits with 13-year-old cancer patient Lawrence Garcia, Mammen encourages Garcia to beat on electric drums while he plays the guitar. The therapy won’t cure his cancer, but it does, according to Garcia’s mom, take away much of the boy’s depression(沮丧).

Music therapy can put patients in better moods and ease the symptoms of depression according to the American Music Therapy Association. Other benefits include relieving pain, calming tension, aiding sleep, reducing worry or fear, and easing muscle tension.

Jose Haro personally experienced the benefits of music therapy when he was recovering from heart surgery. During his recovery, he played a piano whose keys lit up, indicating which keys to touch to play along with the background music. Soon he was playing tunes and noticing something strange. “I was searching for my pain.” He says of his experience, “but it was gone.”

While Haro's experience provides an evidence of the power of music to relieve pain, scientific research has proven music also helps patients with Alzheimer's disease and arthritis.

In addition, music therapy helps premature babies. Doctors are tapping into a powerful way to teach premature babies that haven’t yet learned how to suck. Doctors use a device that comforts the babies by playing music when they suck on a pacifier（奶嘴）. Soon the babies learn to suck in return for music, gaining weight faster and going home earlier than those who do not use the device.

Even perfectly healthy people are discovering the power of music to calm and heal. Drum circles attract people who find stress relief in beating out rhythms. While music is not a cure-all, it does make life a little easier.

1.In the first paragraph, the underlined phrase “ tapping into “ can be replaced by “_________”

A．discussing on       B．looking for         C．showing interest in  D．making use of

2.According to the passage, Jose Haro_______________.

A．went through an obvious effect of music on his recovery

B．was asked to play the piano with the background music

C．felt no pain in his surgery because of music therapy

D．recovered from heart disease completely

3.From the passage, we know_________________.

A．music can prevent people from suffering from arthritis

B．Garcia found much comfort in music according to his mom

C．musicians cured many soldiers after each of the two world wars

D．the more music they listen to, the faster premature babies gain weight

4.What is the best title for this passage?

A．Music to Patient Ears                     B．Music Popular in Hospitals

C．Musicians Work with Doctors              D．People's life Benefits from Music

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.

1._ Health foods are packaged in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these healthy colors. Ice cream packers are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.

2._ Recently, some kind of pain killer was brought out, but researchers found it didn’t sell well, because the color made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—because we think of blue as safe, and white as calm.

_3. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!

The most successful producers know the truth: _4. The founder of Pears soup, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods, came to the conclusion: “_5.”

A．It’s not enough to have a good product.

B．Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell.

C．Any fool can make soup, but it takes a genius to sell it.

D．The colors tricked the customers into shopping.

E. The size of a product can attract a shopper.

F. A good product is an advantage.

G. The colors turned the customers off.

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6th June

My teacher and classmates have helped me a lot since I came here. _________________________________________________________________

The American soldiers_______ Iraq kissed their families goodbye and left in a hurry.

A．are sending to      B．sending to         C．are sent to         D．to be sent to

–I’ll take the driving test this month.

--________ you should fail.

A．Why not          B．How ever          C．What of           D．What if

We have got accustomed__________ in an air—conditioned room, so we can’t stand the terrible heat outside.

A．to live            B．to not live         C．to living           D．to not living

Helping others is a habit, _____ you can learn even at an early age.

A．it                B．that              C．what             D．one

We__________ an old man lying in the road, who was badly ill.

A．came along        B．came by           C．came across       D．came up

The committee has recommended that the training program _______ improved .

A．would be          B．is                C．was              D．be

----Please come in and make yourself___________.

----- Thank you ！

A．at sea            B．at will             C．at home           D．at sight