Music and Behavior
Where did you go yesterday? Did you hear  1  at any of those places? Today most stores and restaurants play music. You might 2  hear music in an office or on a farm.
Scientists believe that music changes the  3  people behave. According to some scientists, the sound of western classical music makes people  4  richer. When a restaurant plays classical music, people spend  5  money on food and drinks. When the restaurant plays  6  music, people spend less money. With  7  music, people spend even less.
Scientists also  8  that loud , fast music makes people eat faster. In fact, people  9  their food faster when the music gets faster. Some restaurants play fast music during their   10  hours. This gets people to eat faster and leave more quickly. In this way, restaurants  11  make more money.
Some scientists think that music makes you think and learn better. They say  12  music helps students to be more active. It is true that people earn better when they are  13 . And listening to music can help you relax.  
The  14  time you hear music somewhere, be  15 . It might change the way you do things.

I am on vacation in Wenzhou with my friend Betty. Wenzhou is a beautiful city   1   many interesting places. During the day we visit some beautiful places, and   2   we listen to music in the hotel . We are having a good time here.
The weather here is pretty good. It’s usually   3  , so people can enjoy the sunshine in Wenzhou.  4   today it’s raining and a little cold. I’m  5  I can’t go to the beach . I really want to play beach volleyball. Now, it’s 5:30 in the afternoon. We’re in  6  hotel room. It’s raining hard.  7  the people in the street! Some are walking fast or  8  ,  9  are waiting for taxis. Where are they going? Oh, they’re going home after work. I hope the weather is fine soon. I want to  10  more places in Wenzhou.

完形填空。（10分）
Korean culture(韓流) is really popular right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian(亞洲) countries including(包括)   1 . Young people are   2  in Korean TV plays, Korean pop songs and the Korean language.
The Korean Wave started   3  years ago with the TV series(電視系列劇) Winter Sonata(冬季戀歌). This love story is still popular now. People, especially girls, like the beautiful stories and handsome actors   4  Pei Yongjun.
In the music world, Korean stars are making   5  heard in China. You can often find big Korean names such as Baby Vox, SES and Finkle at the top of the Chinese   6  charts(排行榜).
The Korean Wave  7  makes young people try the clothes and hairstyles of the Korean pop stars. Besides those, now some girls in China are having plastic surgery(整形手術(shù))  8 
their looks. It is said that many Korean stars look beautiful   9  plastic surgery.
As you see, Korean culture has changed us a lot. Is it  10  for us to follow in every way? We each should think about it.

完形填空（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）
Having a few days off always sounds so great. Everyone needs a   1 . And so does US President.US President Barack Obama went on holiday with his family in   2  in 2011. Where did they go and did the first family enjoy   3 ? Now, Obama is trying to   4  his experience (經(jīng)歷) with us. Let’s listen to him.
“We travelled to Honolulu, Hawaii, in December 2011 for   5 . Of course we went there by air. We spent 17 days there. Hawaii is my hometown. We had a wonderful time there. This was one of the   6  vacations in my life.
My wife Michelle and I visited US Marines (海軍) and their families in Hawaii on Christmas Day. I   7  held the eight-month-old baby of a captain in my arms.
I also spent part of Christmas Eve playing golf with my old friends from Hawaii and some White House staff.
I went to Hanauma Bay Nature Park with my   8  daughters. That’s our favourite place. We dived there,   9  set four sea turtles free.
We all had a good time. And both my daughters said that they wanted to go there for a   10 time later.”

完形填空 分別通讀下面兩篇短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從A、B、C三個選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳答案。（共20小題，每小題1分；計20分）
The word “sandwich” is an English word. Sandwich was an English   1 . He lived in England about two hundred years ago. Sandwich had a lot of   2 . He was very rich(富有的). But he liked   3  cards for money. He often played   4  day and night.   5  day he played for twenty-four hours without stopping. He did not   6  the card table to eat. He asked his man to   7  him some meat and   8 . So he put some meat between two pieces of bread. He did not want to stop   9   playing cards. From the name of this man, Sandwich, we have the word “sandwich”   10 .
【小題1】A．woman               B．man                 C．book
【小題2】A．money               B．food                C．cards
【小題3】A．making              B．keeping              C．playing
【小題4】A．every              B．only                C．a(chǎn)ll
【小題5】A．One              B．Next                C．This
【小題6】A．hold                B．leave                C．show
【小題7】A．use                 B．take                 C．bring
【小題8】A．milk                B．fruit                C．bread
【小題9】A．before              B．when                C．a(chǎn)fter
【小題10】A．in shops           B．this year            C．today

What day is __61___ day of the week? We Chinese may say Monday, because Monday is the first working day in the week. But__62___people have different ideas. They say__ 63___ is the first day of the week. Also, they work only five days a week and have a long __64___: Saturday and Sunday. People are different __65___ many other ways, too. We Chinese put our last names first and our first name last .British and American people put them in the other way. Chinese people speak Chinese, but British and American people speak English. Chinese eat a lot of__ 66___ . British and American people have a lot of bread and potatoes. Most Chinese ride bicycles, but most British and American people drive __67___. People write __68___ in different ways, too. We Chinese write “November 10, 2005” as “05 / 11 / 10”, in big -to - small order. But British put it as “___6 9__”, in small - to - big order, and the Americans even write it as “10/ 11 / 05”. What a difference!
Do you know any other __70___ between us Chinese speaking people and English speaking people.

People all over the world enjoy sports, because sports can help them keep  1  and live long. Some sports or games go back  2    years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are very new. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
Many people like to watch  3 play sports or games. They don’t play themselves. They buy tickets or   4  their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very  5  and happy when “their” player or team  6   the match.
People play different games in different seasons. Swimming is fun in warm weather,   7  skating is good in winter.
Some sports are  8 interesting that people everywhere enjoy them. For example, basketball  9  by about 100 million people in more than 200 countries. People can play it in parks, schools, or factories.   10  fun it is to watch an NBA match!

Korean culture is really  1  right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian countries  2  China. Young people are going crazy about Korean TV dramas, Korean pop songs, taekwondo（跆拳道）and the Korean language.
The Korean Wave started a few years ago with the TV series “Winter Sonata”. This love story is   3   popular. People, especially girls, like the beautiful story and handsome actors like Bae Yong Jun (裴勇俊).

In the music world, Korean girls are making themselves heard in China. You can often find big Korean names like Baby Vox, S. E. S and Finkle at the  4  of the Chinese music charts (排行榜).
The Korean Wave has also made young people  5  to try the clothes and hairstyles of pop stars, too. Not only  6  . Now some girls in China  7  plastic surgery（整容）to change the way they look. People say some beautiful Korean stars have had plastic surgery. These stars don’t make plastic surgery look shameful（丟面子的）.
Are  8   the faces of beautiful Korean girls not 9 ? 10  for yourself when you next visit South Korea.

完形填空。（每小題2分，共20分）
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從A、B、C、D 四個選項中選出一個能正確填入相應(yīng)空格內(nèi)的最佳答案，并把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目的答案標(biāo)號涂黑。
Why do we take school trips? School trips are a great chance to learn outside the classroom      41      new and interesting ways. For example, on a trip to a farm, we can see   42          of the things we        43     about so far in biology lessons. While   44       science
museums, we can see science in action.
Where can we go on a school trip? In Japan, cherry (櫻花) trees are blossoming (開花) by the beginning of the year for students to take school trips. School children have picnic lunches, sing songs and dance under the trees. They       45    go boating and hiking around the lakes and hills. Some kids even take baths in hot springs. If there is     46     , don’t worry. They will go to a museum     47     .
In China, students often take school   48     to parks, museums or to visit a mountain. But nowadays it’s very popular to take an outward bound(野外拓展) trip.  Students can learn about survival skills.(生存技能)
In the UK, students go to many interesting places. They     49     shells(貝殼) on the seaside . Kids may also learn about      50        when they go to a castle(城堡) or a famous old home.
【小題1】.

The English often go out with an umbrella or a raincoat. Why？ 36  the weather In Britain often changes quickly.
Spring can be rainy or windy, but the weather is  37  warmer and you can hope more sunny days. In fact , there  38  as much sunshine in spring as in summer. Summer is the  39  time for visitors to go to the seaside. People often go out to have a walk or swim. Autumn is a beautiful season. During autumn it is still nice to be outside ,too. In winter, it gets colder, and it might 40  ,especially in the north. There are  41  very heavy winds in this season.
February is usually the coldest   42 of the year , while the warmest  43 often July.
The difference   44   temperature between winter and summer is not so great in Britain. The average temperature for winter is about 4.5℃,and for   45 is about 15.5℃.
【小題1】A. Because     B. As           C. Since
【小題2】A. get         B. getting       C. gets
【小題3】A. can have     B. can         C. can be
【小題4】A. worst        B. best         C. earliest
【小題5】A. snow        B. rain         C. wind
【小題6】A. also         B. either        C. too
【小題7】A. month       B. season       C. weather 
【小題8】A. is          B. was         C. are
【小題9】A. in           B. on         C. for
【小題10】A. spring      B. autumn       C. summer