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【題目】閱讀理解。

Whether you admit it or not, music improves our daily life and makes us feel easy, especially the music of Beethoven and Mozart. But can you believe that a school in England is using classical music to cut down students’ bad behavior?

The head teacher Brian Walker at the West Park School in Derby asks some students to stay behind after school on Fridays. He forces his students to listen to Mozart and other classical music. He also makes them copy his favorite poems and they have to watch educational videos.

Mr. Walker says his main aim is to stop noisy pupils causing trouble in class for students who want to study. He said the students staying behind were “not the smokers or drinkers, the truants (逃學(xué)生) or the people who are late for school…It’s those who have slowed the learning and teaching in class for everyone”. Mr. Walker said this was unacceptable, because it was making the rest of the students fail to focus their attention on their study.

Mr. Walker believes what he does reminds students that education is something to value. “It helps them see they are part of something bigger that will improve their life chances,” he said. The head teacher thinks students in fact learn from being kept behind after school. “Hopefully, I open their ears to an experience they don’t normally have and don’t want to have again, so it’s both educational and acts as a warning.”

Music has had success elsewhere in reducing bad behavior. In 2004, it reduced crime on London’s subway by 25 percent. Researchers from a Belfast university found it helped stop elephants’ bad behavior.

However, one West Park student called Kieran said, “An hour of Mr. Walker’s music is a real killer.”

【1】Mr. Walker asks his students to listen to music to _______________.

A. make them rest after a day’s study

B. punish them for their bad behavior

C. get them to love arts gradually

D. reduce their bad behavior

【2】A student who _____ may be left behind to listen to Mozart after class.

A. plays truant B. smokes in class

C. bothers others in class D. comes late for class

【3】Why does Mr. Walker say some students’ bad behavior is unacceptable?

A. Because the rest of the students hate them.

B. Because they are wasting their life.

C. Because they are disturbing teachers.

D. Because they have a bad influence on the other students.

【4】In the eyes of Mr. Walker, _____.

A. some students don’t realize education is valuable

B. all students can learn from music

C. music must be taught after class

D. students ought to love music

【5】It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that _____.

A. the action Mr. Walker takes sometimes doesn’t really work as planned

B. Mr. Walker aims to tell students study is important

C. once music helped animals behave well

D. animals also like to listen to music

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】D

【4】A

【5】A

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇議論文。主要講的是West Park School的校長(zhǎng)Brian Walker通過給行為舉止不好的學(xué)生放古典音樂以規(guī)范他們的行為。一方面，這一新鮮的方法確實(shí)對(duì)規(guī)范和約束行為有一定的好的作用和效果；另一方面，它也不可避免的遭到一些不滿和批評(píng)。

【1】D 細(xì)節(jié)題。此題答案要到第一段的最后一句去找，“But can you believe that a school in England is using classical music to cut down students’ bad behavior?”但是你會(huì)相信英國(guó)的一所學(xué)校用古典樂去減少學(xué)生的壞行為嗎？故選D。

【2】C 細(xì)節(jié)題。從文章第三段可知，“He said the students staying behind were ‘not the smokers or drinkers, the truants (逃學(xué)生) or the people who are late for school…It’s those who have slowed the learning and teaching in class for everyone.’”他說留下來接受古典樂“治療”的不是抽煙酗酒的學(xué)生，不是逃學(xué)生也不是遲到的學(xué)生，而是影響他人學(xué)習(xí)，拖班級(jí)后腿的學(xué)生，故選C。

【3】D 細(xì)節(jié)題。從文章第三段最后一句話可知，“Mr. Walker said this was unacceptable, because it was making the rest of the students fail to focus their attention on their study.”Mr. Walker說道不被接受的原因是他們嚴(yán)重影響了其他學(xué)生的正常的，專心的學(xué)習(xí)，故選D。

【4】A 推斷題。 從文章第四段第一句話可知，“Mr. Walker believes what he does reminds students that education is something to value.” Mr. Walker相信他的這一舉動(dòng)提醒了學(xué)生要關(guān)注教育的價(jià)值，故選A。

【5】A 推斷題。“Music has had success elsewhere in reducing bad behavior.”和 “An hour of Mr. Walker’s music is a real killer.”最后二段分別從一正一反表達(dá)了對(duì)古典樂治療法的優(yōu)劣批判，故選A。