Culture is not something we are born with, but rather it is learned.

Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it necessarily a characteristic of high intelligence. A person is highly intelligent does not mean that he uses it creatively 【M1】______

Creativity is the matter of using the resources one have to produce original ideas that 【M2】______

are good for something.

There are things that parents can do at the home to encourage creativity. They 【M3】______

can involve children by decision-making if the problem is appropriate, asking the 【M4】______

child for suggestions. Parents can help their children, to understand the

consequences of various decision. Parents should also encourage their 【M5】______

children to talk out loud about things they are doing. Thinking and language skills is 【M6】______

closely related. Talking out loud improve language skills and thinking 【M7】______

skills. It is important to give children choices. As children grow older ,

parents should let their children to decide more serious things, but not automatically 【M8】______

help them too much if they have the wrong decision. This may be confusing 【M9】______

for the child, but that is all fight. This is because one of the most important trait 【M10】______

of creative people is a very strong motivation to make order out of confusion.

【M1】

The book is not populr with the youth, but ______ I think it is very good.exctlyB．personllyC．poThe book is not populr with the youth, but ______ I think it is very good.exctly B．personlly C．possibly D．generlly

A．exactly

B．personally

C．possibly

D．generally

听力原文： Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes.

To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with no intelligence. On the other hand, a child lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

It is easy to show that intelligence is, to some degree, something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

Imagine now that we put two identical twins in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find difference in intelligence developing, and this certainly indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part.

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A．Birth.

B．Environment.

C．Education.

D．Blood type.

Canada is not very strict with immigration applications because

A．it is a large country．

B．it is suffering from labor shortage．

C．its population is decreasing．

D．it is a multicultural country．

What feature is NOT included with the student card?

A．It is compatible with campus vending machines.

B．It can be used to receive discount.

C．It serves as a membership card to the campus gym.

D．It functions as the bus pass for the entire city.

What feature is NOT included with the student card?

A．It is compatible with campus vending machines.

B．It can be used to receive discount.

C．It serves as a membership card to the campus gym.

D．It functions as the bus pass for the entire city.

It has been thought and said that Africans are born with musical talent.Because music is so important in the lives of many Africans and because so much music is performed in Africa, we are inclined to think that all Africans are musicians.The impression is strengthened when we look at ourselves and find that we have become largely a society of musical spectators (旁观).Music is important to us, but most of us can be considered consumers rather than producers of music.We have records, televisions, concerts, and radios to fulfil many of our musical needs.In most situations where music is performed in our culture it is not difficult to distinguish the audience from the performers, but such is often not the case in Africa.Alban Ayipaga, a Kasena semiprofessional musician from northern Ghana, says that when his flute (长笛) and drum ensemble (歌舞团) is performing, "Anybody can take part".This is true, but Kasena musicians recognize that not all people are equally capable of taking part in the music.Some can sing along with the drummers, but relatively few can drum and even fewer can play the flute along with the ensemble.It is fairly common in Africa for there to be an ensemble of expert musicians surrounded by others who join in by clapping, singing, or somehow adding to the totality of musical sound.Performances often take place in an open area (that is, not on a stage) and so the lines between the performing nucleus and the additional performers, active spectators, and passive spectators may be difficult to draw from our point of view.

1、The difference between us and Africans, as far as music is concerned, is that().

A、most of us are consumers while most of them are producers of music

B、we are musical performers and they are semiprofessional musicians

C、most of us are passive spectators while they are active spectators

D、we are the audience and they are the additional performers

2、The author of the passage implies that().

A、all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in Africa

B、not all Africans are born with musical talent although music is important in their lives

C、most Africans are capable of joining in the music by playing musical instruments

D、most Africans perform. as well as professional musicians

3、The word "nucleus" probably refers to().

A、musicians famous in Africa

B、musicians at the centre of attention

C、musicians acting as the core in a performance

D、active participants in a musical performance

4、The best title for this passage would be().

A、The Importance of Music to African People

B、Differences Between African Music and Music of Other Countries

C、The Relationship Between Musicians and Their Audience

D、A Characteristic Feature of African Musical Performances