I could hear them talking but I couldn’t figure _______ what they were saying.A、outB、a

The author was surprised to hear the calls to prayer because ______.

A．he was far away from the city, yet he could hear them clearly

B．he did not think there would be any calls

C．the calls came from the mosques

D．the calls were no different over loud-speakers

with his brother over in New York. He was coming back with a heavy heart. It was not just that it was the end of a wonderful holiday; it was not just that he invariably suffered badly from jet lag; it was that Monday mornings always began with a team meeting and, over the months, he had grown to hate them.

Martin was aware that colleagues approached these meetings with hidden agendas; they enjoyed game-playing, and he knew that people were not being honest and open. The meetings themselves were bad enough—but then there was all the moaning afterwards. “The usual people say the usual things.” “I could have improved on that idea, but I wasn’t going to say.” “I was thinking of making a suggestion—but I couldn’t be bothered.”

As this morning’s meeting began, Martin braced himself for the usual moroseness (闷闷不乐) and monotony. But, as the meeting progressed, he became aware of a strange background noise. At first, he thought that he was still hearing the engine noise from the aircraft that had brought him back to London—he had had to sit over the wing and the noise was terrible. But, as he concentrated on the noise, it became a little clearer.

He realized—to his amazement—that he could hear what his colleagues were thinking as well as what they were saying. As he concentrated still harder, he found that he could actually hear what they were thinking at the same time as they were speaking. What surprised him, even more than the acquisition of this strange power, was that he discovered that what people were saying was not really what they were thinking. They were not making clear their reservations. They were not supporting views which they thought might be unpopular. They were not contributing their new insights. They were not volunteering their new ideas.

Martin found it impossible not to respond to his new knowledge. So he started to make gentle interventions, based more on what he could hear his colleagues thinking than on what he could hear them saying. “So, John, are you really saying …？” “Susan, do you really think that？” “Tom, have you got an idea on how we could take this forward？” He was aware that his colleagues were unsettled by how insightful these interventions were. They looked at him mystified.In truth, he felt rather proud of his newly-acquired talent.

Given more confidence now, Martin forgot his usual misery at participating in such meetings and began making comments of his own. However, he became aware that some of his colleagues were looking at him totally confused.One or two even had a gentle smile playing on their lips. Only gradually did it dawn on them—he could hear their thoughts and they were not really saying what they were thinking.

As the meeting progressed, Martin became aware of changes to the tone and style. of the event. It was clear to him now that, one by one, each member of the meeting was learning how to hear the thoughts of all the others and this was subtly changing how they interacted with one another. The game-playing started to fall away; people started to speak more directly; views became better understood; the atmosphere became more open and trusting.

The meeting ended.As people left the room, Martin found that he could still hear what they were thinking. “That was the best meeting we’ve ever had.” “All meetings should be like that.” “In future, I’m going to say what I think.”

46. Why did Martin hate the team meetings？（）

A. His colleagues were making stories.

B. His colleagues complained too much.

C. His colleagues pretended to be friendly.

D. His colleagues held back their true feelings.

47. Which of the following is nearest in meaning to “braced himself for” in Paragraph 3 ？（）

A. prepared himself for B. adapted himself to

C. concemed himself about D. persuaded himself into

48. With the strange power of being able to hear what others were thinking and saying, Martin realized that______.（）

A. he had been cheated

B. he was lucky to know the truth

C. people didn’t mean what they said

D. people were unwilling to work there

49. Which of the following can be expected at future team meetings？（）

A. Everyone will be cooperative. B. Everyone will be straightforward.

C. Everyone will be respectful. D. Everyone will be considerate.

50. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage？（）

A. A Mysterious Power B. A Meeting of Minds

C. Trust Means All D. Unity Is Success

texture, cannot be separated except by pedantic analysis from the mind and sensibility of the artist who happens to be expressing himself through them".

But that is precisely the trouble; for as far as I can see, Mozart's can. Mozart makes me begin to see ghosts, or at the very least ouija-boards. If you read Beethoven's letters, you feel that you are at the heart of a tempest, a whirlwind, a furnace; and so you should, because you are. If you read Wagner's, you feel that you have been run over by a tank, and that, too, is an appropriate response.

But if you read Mozart's—and he was a hugely prolific letter-writer—you have no clue at all to the power that drove him and the music it squeezed out of him in such profusion that death alone could stop it; they reveal nothing—nothing that explains it. Of course it is absurd(though the mistake is frequently made)to seek external causes for particular works of music; but with Mozart it is also absurd, or at any rate useless, to seek for internal ones either. Mozart was an instrument. But who was playing it？

That is what I mean by the Mozart Problem and the anxiety it causes me. In all art, in anything, there is nothing like the perfection of Mozart, nothing to compare with the range of feeling he explores, nothing to equal the contrast between the simplicity of the materials and the complexity and effect of his use of them. The piano concertos themselves exhibit these truths at their most intense; he was a greater master of this form. than of the symphony itself, and to hear every one of them, in the astounding abundance of genius they provide, played as I have so recently heard them played, is to be brought face to face with a mystery which, if we could solve it, would solve the mystery of life itself.

We can see Mozart, from infant prodigy to unmarked grave. We know what he did, what he wrote, what he felt, whom he loved, where he went, what he died of. We pile up such knowledge as a child does bricks; and then we hear the little tripping rondo tune of the last concerto—and the bricks collapse; all our knowledge is useless to explain a single bar of it. It is almost enough to make me believe in — but I have run out of space, and don't have to say it. Put K. 595 on the gramophone and say it for me.

According to Paragraph 1, Cardus observed that ______ .

A．a composer can separate his language and harmonies from his own mind and sensibility

B．a composer can separate his language and harmonies from the mind and sensibility of an artist

C．some people can separate the language and harmonies of a composer from his mind and sensibility

D．the language, harmonies, rhythms, melodies, colors and texture of a composer cannot be separated from each other

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？You will hear a man enquiring about training courses.

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I hear that you are ______ collecting stamps. Could I have a look？

A: interested in

B: pleased with

C: similar to

D: ready for

When my sister phoned me, I could not hear clearly what she was () .

A.speaking

B.saying

C.talking

D.telling

A.very

B.rather

C.too

D.so

A.see

B.hear

C.follow

D.say

A.pleased with  

B.interested in  

C.similar

I hear that you are ______ collecting stamps. Could I have a look？

A: pleased with

B: interested in

C: similar to

D: ready for