The tape recorder can be a very effective(A) and excited(B) aid to teaching(C) if it

Can I use your tape recorder for a while？ —Yes,().

A. go ahead

B. you can't broke it

C. all right

D. no, sorry

A.Go on

B.Go ahead

C.Come on

D.Come along

188. Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning？ Do you sometimes oversleep？ Are you often late for work or school？ Yes？ Then Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a special bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will get you up in the morning! Here is how it works: The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music or other pleasant sounds. A few minutes later, a second recording plays. The second recording can be loud music or unpleasant sounds. If you don’t get up after the second recording, you’ll be sorry. A mechanical “foot” is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly, the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally, the bed is vertical. You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are awake and out of bed. Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to win a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Once every two years, Honda has a contest—the “All Honda Idea Contest”. In 1996 Hiroyuki won a prize for his bed. [共5题]

(1) The purpose of the passage is ________.

(A) to praise Hiroyuki

(B) to tell a story

(C) to introduce a special bed

(D) to wake somebody up

(2) What does the special bed do first in the morning？

(A) Its tape recorder plays soft music.

(B) Its tape recorder plays loud music.

(C) It kicks you in the head.

(D) Its alarm clock rings.

(3) If you don’t wake up after the clock rings, what will happen？

(A) The bed becomes vertical and you slide off the bed.

(B) The tape recorder plays pleasant sounds.

(C) You will be late for work.

(D) The mechanical “foot” kicks you in the head.

(4) Hiroyuki made such a special bed because ________.

(A) he wanted to win the contest held by his company.

(B) he was good at inventing new things.

(C) he wanted to make money.

(D) he sometimes overslept.

(5) Who is Hiroyuki？

(A) A scientist. (B) A company worker. (C) An inventor. (D) A carpenter.

decided to study medicine instead. After he passed the examinations and became a doctor, he had to work in a hospital for some time. There he discovered that a lot of patients were happier and less worried about their illnesses if they could hear pleasant music. When Peter became a surgeon and began to work for himself, he decided to keep his patients happy by having a tape recorder in his waiting room, playing beautiful music for them. But soon after the tape recorder was put in the waiting room, Peter’s nurse heard a woman who was sitting in the crowded waiting room one morning complain, "Here we’re all waiting to see the doctor, and he’s just playing the piano in his office instead of doing his work!"

31. Peter liked music when he was at school.

A. T B. F

32. Peter had to pass some examinations after he became a doctor.

A. T B. F

33. Peter decided to play music for his patients because he couldn’t leave music.

A. T B. F

34. Peter put a recorder in his waiting room.

A. T B. F

35. The woman complained because she thought Peter wasn’t working.

A. T B. F

With the widespread use of the personal computer, many authorities in the field of(56)have pointed out the need for computer literacy.Unfortunately, there is no(57)agreement as to what the term "computer literacy" means. Some feel that computer literacy means knowing how to make the computer "compute"; that is knowing how to program computers in one or more programming languages.Others feel that knowing how to program is merely a small segment of computer literacy. These people(58)the major emphasis in schools should be on teaching how to effectively use the many software packages that are available.Still others suggest that computer literacy education is not required. They suggest that computers are being so rapidly integrated into our society that using a computer will be as(59)as using a telephone or a video tape recorder, and that special education will not be necessary. (60)of one's definition of computer literacy, it is recognized by most that learning to use a computer is indeed an important skill in modern society.

A．culture

B．science

C．education

D．industry

een, held, fell, used — that a culture produces. Examining a culture's tools and technology can tell us about the group's history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music: can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of "things" in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot bear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their develop ment. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.

Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutusl influence

among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music cul Lure as a whole.

One more important part of music's material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; the)' have affected music cultures all over the globe.

Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance bucause ______.

A．it helps produce new cultural tools and technology

B．it can reflect the development of the nation

C．it helps understand the nation's past and present

D．it can demonstrate the nations civilization

n be seen, held, felt, used—that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of “things” in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments on the symphony orchestra.

Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as a whole.

Music is deep-rooted in the cultural background that fosters it. We now pay more and more attention to traditional or ethnic features in folk music and are willing to preserve the folk music as we do with many traditional cultural heritage. Musicians all over the world are busy with recording classic music in their country for the sake of their unique culture. As always, people’s aspiration will always focus on their individuality rather than universal features that are shared by all cultures alike.

One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, and television, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the “information-revolution”, a twentieth century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.

第36题：Which of the following does not belong to material culture？

［A］ Instruments.

［B］ Music.

［C］ Paintings.

［D］ Sheet music.

A.文件

B.编辑

C.效果

D.帮助

---What did your father say

---He asked us ________.

A．how to mend the recorder

B．what to mend the recorder

C．that we mended the recorder

D．where did we mend the recorder