When someone says, “Well，I guess I’ll have to face the music”， it doesn’t mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer or attend a concert. It is something far less unhappy than you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and that or why you did not do this or that.

　 At some time or another, every one of us has to “face the music”, especially as children. We can all remember father’s angry words “I want to talk to you”. And only because we did not listen to him. What a bad thing it was！

　 In the middle or at the end of every term, we students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will decide whether we will face the music or not. If...that means parents cold faces and contempt (轻视) of the teachers and classmates.

　“To face the music” is well known to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. It really means that you have to do something, no matter how terrible the whole thing might be, because you know you have no choice.

1.“To face the music” means “to__________”.

A. do something that we don’t like to

B. go to the theatre

C. go to the music show

D. do something that we want to

2.In the third paragraph， “If…”really means “If__________”．

A. we don’t do a good job                             B. we get an “A” in the exam

C. the exam is easy                                         D. the exam is difficult

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. “To face the music” is well known in the United States．

B. “To face the music” has a history of more than 100 years．

C. The young Americans know what “to face the music” means．

D. Only the old in the United States know the meaning of “to face the music”．

 

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　　Mary Kimble Smith was an ordinary 12-year-old girl: ordinary in every way 1 one. She suddenly started to walk in her 2 . No one knew why this happened. The best guess 3 to be that it represents 4 the sleepwalker is worried. This feeling normally remains under control during 5 hours, but at night, when the mind is in a 6 passive mode, it 7 to the surface and show itself in the form of 8 movement.

　　At first, her family 9 help from just about every doctor they could find. But 10 of them were able to suggest a means 11 which she could be cured. Then her parents were frightened, and they 12 waking her up when she was sleepwalking. In fact, the general advice is that we 13 not wake a sleepwalker. This follows the idea that 14 comes from some deep anxiety.

　　To wake a person and bring them to a 15 realization that they are not 16 they thought they were could increase the feeling of anxiety and perhaps 17 reinforce (加强) the habit.

　　 18 sleepwalkers stop without any warning — they just never do it again. In Mary's case, 19 , she slatted sleepwalking soon after her twelfth birthday and was still doing it the day 20 she died, in 1989, at 93 years of age.

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