三、阅读理解(共15 小题;每小题2 分，计30 分）
阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
A
High School Art Show
Featuring art by students in Grades 8-9. Opens on Dec 18, will be open on weekdays. Some works will be for sale.
If you are interested in buying one of the art pieces, please contact Ms Carleen Green at 632-336-0945 or email carleenhede@fc.hsds.ca.
Visual arts show at South Belleon High School. Enjoy until the end of February.
31. Where will it be held?
A. A public library. B. A local shopping mall.
C. South Belleon High School. D. The South Belleon art center.
32. How can people get updates about the show?
A. Call 632-336-0945. B. Call 623-336-0945.
C. Email carleenhede@fc.hsds.ca. D. Visit www.southbelleonhs.ca.
33. What do you know from the poster?
A. Some works of art will be made by 7th-graders.
B. People can buy some of the art pieces.
C. People can make their own art pieces.
D. People can see the show any time before February
B
Many people enjoy listening to different kinds of music while they paint, write or draw. Most of them believe that music can make them more creative. But a new study published in the magazine Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests: Any music playing at all may not be helpful for creativity, instead, listening to music may harm our creativity.
To come to these conclusions, researchers at three universities in Europe had some volunteers take part in some simple word games designed to improve verbal（言语的）creativity. For example, the volunteers were given three words, such as dress, dial and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word connected with all three that could be joined together to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunflower, etc.). The volunteers needed to complete the task either in a quiet room or a room with different types of music. It was clear that background music couldn’t make volunteers deal with the tasks more creatively. Besides, researchers also found that background noises such as those commonly heard in a library had no influence on volunteers’ creativity because library noises created a familiar state environment that people are used to.[FROM:www.jzjy365.com]
Researchers think that any task that relies on verbal creativity is harmed when listening to any type of music. That is to say, different types of music have the same results to the tasks like problem-solving and fresh thinking. The finding also suggests that the human brain is distracted by any type of music. Why? Dr. Neil Mclatchie of Lancaster University explains that we pay more attention to music rather than the task at hand with music played.
So next time if you sit down for study with music played, you may be giving your brain something else to focus on rather than your study.
34. The researchers came up with the new idea .
A. by talking with volunteers in Europe.
B. by asking volunteers to join in some activities.
C. by publishing an article in a magazine.
D. by listening to different kinds of music.
35. According to the example in Paragraph 2, which of the following can be joined to “coat, fall, storm” to form a new word?
A. suit B. sun C. rain D. water
36. What does the underlined word “distracted” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. 使...分开 B. 使...分心 C. 发现 D.讨论
37. By the last sentence, the writer wants to tell us : if we want to be more creative when studying, we’d better .
A. sit in a quiet room. B. sit in a room with different kinds of music.
C. pay no attention to our study. D. pay more attention to music.
参考答案：
31-33 CDB
34-37 BCBA
