1、For some people, music is no fun at all. About four percent of the population is what scientists call “amusic.” People who are amusic are born without the ability to recognize or reproduce musical notes (音调). Amusic people often cannot tell the difference between two songs. Amusics can only hear the
2、 difference between two notes if they are far apart on the musical scale.As a result, songs sound like noise to an amusic. Many amusics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. Their inability to enjoy music sets them apart from others. It can b
3、e difficult for other people to identify with their condition. In fact, most people cannot begin to grasp what it feels like to be amusic. Just going to a restaurant or a shopping mall can be uncomfortable or even painful. That is why many amusics intentionally stay away from places where there is m
4、usic. However, this can result in withdrawal and social isolation. “I used to hate parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only recently discovered that she was amusic. By studying people like Margaret, scientists arc finally learning how to identify this unusual condition.Scientists s
5、ay that the brains of amusics are different from the brains of people who can appreciate music. The difference is complex, and it doesnt involve defective hearing. Amusics can understand other nonmusical sounds well. They also have no problems understanding ordinary speech. Scientists compare amusic
6、s to people who just cant see certain colors.Many amusics are happy when their condition is finally diagnosed (诊断). For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about her problem with music. Now she knows that she is not alone. There is a name for her condition. That makes it easier for her to explain. “Whe
7、n people invite me to a concert, I just say. “No thanks. Im amusic,” says Margaret. “I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.”65. Which of the following is true of amusics?A. Listening to music is far from enjoyable for them.B. They love places where they are likel
8、y to hear music.C. They can easily tell two different songs apart.D. Their situation is well understood by musicians.66. According to paragraph 3, a person with “defective hearing” is probably one who _ .A. dislikes listening to speechesB. can hear anything nonmusicalC. has a hearing problemD. lacks
9、 a complex hearing system67. In the last paragraph, Margaret expressed her wish that _ .A. her problem with music had been diagnosed earlierB. she were seventeen years old rather than seventyC. her problem could be easily explainedD. she were able to meet other amusics68. What is the passage mainly
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15、 no event shall Amana be responsible for consequential damages.This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have others which vary from state to state. For example, some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of consequential damages, so this exclusion may not apply to you.69.
16、 According to Warranty Limitations, a product can be under warranty if _ .A. shipped from a Canadian factoryB. rented for home use C. repaired by the user himselfD. used in the U.S.A.70. According to Owners Responsibilities, an owner has to pay for _ .A. the loss of the sales receiptB. a servicers o
17、vertime workC. the product installationD. a mechanics transportation71. Which of the following is true according to the warranty?A. Consequential damages are excluded across America.B. A product damaged in a natural disaster is covered by the warranty.C. A faulty cabinet due to rust can be replaced
18、free in the second year.D. Free repair is available for a product used improperly in the first year.CA team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech systems. Designed to do w
19、hat a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.“Its extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components(元件), ”said Robert Wo
20、od, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and
21、 so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers fields or on the battlef
22、ield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about
23、 using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”
24、72. The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that _.A. they had no model in their mind B. they did not have sufficient timeC. they had no ready-made components D. they could not assemble the components73. It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robot
25、ic fly_.A. consists of a flight device and a control systemB. can just fly in limited areas at the present timeC. can collect information from many sourcesD. has been put into wide application74. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about i
26、nsects.B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.D. Woods design can replace animals in some experiments.75. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. Father of Robotic Fly B. Inspiration from Engineering Science
27、C. Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect D. Harvard Breaks Through in Insect StudySection CDirections: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.A. Healthy way of life giving way to overuse of medicineB.
28、 Different findings as to taking additional vitaminC. EUs response to overuse of health productsD. Worrying increase in multivitamin advertisingE. EU directive for the benefit of individualsF. EU directive against prediction in novels76.The use of health supplements such as multivitamin tablets has
29、increased greatly in the western world. People take these supplements because advertising suggests that they prevent a range of medical conditions from developing. However, there is concern that people are consuming worryingly high doses of these supplements and the European Union (EU) has issued a
30、directive that will ban the sale of a wide range of them. This EU directive should be supported.77.Research suggests that people who take Vitamin C supplements of over 5000 milligrams a day are more likely to develop cancer. This shows how much damage these health supplements do to peoples health. A
31、 spokesman for the health supplement industry has argued that other research shows that Vitamin C supplements help prevent heart disease, but we can dismiss this evidence as it is from a biased source.78.Science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s predicted that pills would replace meals as the way in wh
32、ich people would get the fuel they needed. This, it was argued, would mean a more efficient use of time as people wouldnt have to waste it preparing or eating meals. The EU directive would help prevent this nightmare of pills replacing food becoming a reality.79.People already take too many pills in
33、stead of adopting a healthier lifestyle. For example, the consumption of painkillers in Britain in 1998 was 21 tablets per year for every man, woman and child in the country. People do not need all these pills.80.Some might argue that the EU directive denies peoples right to freedom of choice. Howev
34、er, there are many legal examples for such intervention when it is in the individuals best interests. We now make people wear seatbelts rather than allowing them to choose to do so. Opposing the EU directive would mean beneficial measures like this would be threatened.平桥二中高三年级英语阅读理解备考复习（十三）2013年上海参考答案6568 ACAB6971 DBC 7275 CBDC7680 CBFAE