1、 1 1 常见银行英语常见银行英语完形填空完形填空 Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a small study advanced the 62 that listening to Mozarts Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long 63 tradema
2、rked Mozart effect products began to appeal to anxious parents aiming to put toddlers (刚学步的孩子) 64 the fast track to prestigious universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgias governor even 65 giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette. The 66 for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhap
3、s nonexistent, although the 67 study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, 68 , scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted 69 to study and practice music, as 70 to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-basedbrain fitness game 71 in a while. Advanced
4、monitoring 72 have enabled scientists to see what happens 73 your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music 74 can produce profound and lasting changes that 75 the general ability to learn. These results should 76
5、 public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that constantly 77 public schools. Studies have shown that 78 instrument training from an early age can help the brain to 79 sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other s
6、ubjects, from literature to mathematics. The musically adept (擅长的)are better able to 80 on a biology lesson despite the noise in the classroom 81 , a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next office starts screaming a subordinate. They can attend to several things
7、at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking. 62.A)notice B)note C)notion D)notification 63.A)that B)until C)since D)Before 64.A)up B)by C)on D)at 65.A)propelled B) proposed C) submitted D)subjected 66.A)witness B) evidence C) symptom D)cont
8、ext 67.A)subtle B) elementary C) sensitive D)original 68.A)however B)moreover C) then D)therefore 69.A)effort B)impulse C) object D)attention 70.A)opposed B)accustomed C) related D)devoted 71.A)quite B)once C) often D)much 72.A)organisms B)techniques C) mechanisms D)mechanics 73.A)upon B)amid C) amo
9、ng D)inside 74.A)subjects B)models C) causes D)lessons 75.A)enhance B)introduce C) accelerate D)elaborate 76.A)contend B) convey C) conceive D)convince 77.A)trouble B)transform C) distract D)disclose 78.A)urgent B)casual C) diligent D)solemn 79.A)proceed B)process C) prefer D)predict 80.A)count B)co
10、ncentrate C) insist D)depend 81.A)but B)or C) for D)so If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident _62_ to cut plastics out of her life. The marketing coordinator was concerned about _63_ the chemicals coming ou
11、t of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic _64_ was doing to the environment. So she _65_ on her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didnt _66_ plastic. I went in and _67_ bought anything,
12、 Haegele says. She did _68_ some canned food and a carton (纸盒) of milk 69 to discover later that both containers were 70 with plastic resin (树脂). Plastic, she says, just seemed like it was in everything. Shes right. Back in the 1960s, plastic was well _71_ its way to becoming a staple of American li
13、fe. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005 27 million tons of which _72_ in landfills (垃圾填埋场). Our food and water come _73_ in plastic. Its used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the _74_ adaptable substance has its dark side. Envir
14、onmentalists feel worried about the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about the possibility of _75_ chemicals making their way from 76 plastic into childrens bloodstreams. Which means Haegele isnt the only person trying to cut plastic out of her life she isnt _77_ the only one blogging abou
15、t this kind of _78_. But those whove tried know its _79_ from easy to go plastic-free. These things seem to be so common _80_ it is practically impossible to avoid coming into _81_ with them, says Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri. 62. A) resolved B) recovered C) removed
16、D) retreated 63. A) when B) what C) who D) why 64. A) essence B) unit C) crust D) rubbish 65. A) hinged B) hopped C) stretched D) dipped 66. A) include B) induce C) compose D) consist 67. A) slightly B) nearly C) roughly D) barely 68. A) pursue B) prescribe C) preserve D) purchase 69. A) rather B) e
17、ver C) merely D) only 70. A) probed B) coupled C) lined D) combined 71. A) by B) over C) on D) under 2 2 72. A) ended up B) pulled up C) put up D) set up 73. A) trapped B) adapted C) wrapped D) adopted 74. A) interactively B) remotely C) infinitely D) resolutely 75. A) sensible B) toxic C) attractiv
18、e D) absurd 76. A) household B) family C) internal D) civil 77. A) hardly B) largely C) even D) still 78. A) endeavor B) recreation C) accomplishment D) diligence 79. A) well B) little C) far D) much 80. A) while B) which C) but D) that 81. A) fashion B) approach C) contact D) agreement Organised vo
19、lunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to 62 to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduates resume, 63 now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalise the achievements of stude
20、nts who 64 time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly 65 job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside 66 qualifications. Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didnt 67 appreciate the value of what the
21、y did 68 the lecture hall, says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. Employers are much more 69 than they used to be. They used to look for 70 and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicants skills. Now they want students to be able to explain
22、why those skills are 71 to the job. Students who sign 72 for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or 73 work, attend four workshops on employ-ability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity 74 , crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained
23、. 75 efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who 76 best on the sports field can take the Sporting PLuS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments. The experience does not have to be 77 organised. Were not just interested in easily identifiable skills, says Goodma
24、n. 78 , one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so 79 negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives. Goodman hopes the 80 will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active 81 to take up acti
25、vities outside their academic area of work. 62. A) advisors B) specialists C) critics D) employers 63. A) which B) but C) unless D) since 64. A) divide B)devote C) deliver D) donate 65. A) harmonious B) competitive C) resourceful D) prosperous 66. A) artistic B) technical C) academic D) interactive
26、67. A) dominantly B) earnestly C) necessarily D) gracefully 68. A) outside B) along C) over D) through 69. A) generous B) considerate C) enlightening D) demanding 70. A) origin B) initial C) popularity D) potential 71. A) relevant B) responsive C) reluctant D) respective 72. A) out B) off C) away D)
27、 up 73. A) casual B) elective C) domestic D) voluntary 74. A) or B) thus C) so D) and 75. A) Occasional B) Exceptional C) Informative D) Relative 76. A) perform B) convey C) circulate D) formulate 77. A) roughly B) randomly C) formally D) fortunately 78. A) For instance B) In essence C) In contrast
28、D) Of course 79. A) demonstrated B) determined C) operated D) involved 80. A) device B) section C) scheme D) distraction 81. A) attendants B) agents C) members D) peers Americas most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York
29、Times has become the biggest publisher yet to 62 plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 63 the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling 64 an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times 65 to introduce a metered
30、 model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have 66 a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper 67 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said
31、they will not 68 internet readers, and certain papers, 69 Londons Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 70 . The New York Timess publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 71 that the move is a gamble: This is a 72 , to a certain degree, in where we t
32、hink the web is going. Boasting a print 73 of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, 74 the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. 75 most US papers 3 3 focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 76 nation
33、al scopeas well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and 77 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But 78 many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a 79 financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 80 a loss of $70
34、 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million 81 from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet. 62. A set in B. set out C carry over D carry away 63. A abusing B deducting C developing D. abandoning 64. A. with B beside C along D by 65. A en
35、gages B intends C deliberates D signifies 66. A .exceeded B multiplied C assumed D revealed 67. A. on B of C over D up 68. A cost B consume C expend D. charge 69. A as for B far from C. such as D by far 70. A reliable B free C applicable D easy 71. A resisted B certified C. acknowledged D appealed 7
36、2. A net B kit C. bet D pit 73. A evaluation B expansion C. circulation D dimension 74. A. behind B against C before D within 75. A If B. While C Hence D Because 76. A ascend B announce C lengthen D. claim 77. A contributes B disposes C. maintains D encounters 78. A. like B beyond C from D through 7
37、9. A heavy B crude C rough D. serious 80. A targeted B suspended C suffered D tolerated 81. A asset B bill C account D. loan A new study found that inner-city kids living in neighborhoods with more green space gained about 13% less weight over a two-year period than kids living amid more concrete an
38、d fewer trees. Such _62_ tell a powerful story. The obesity epidemic began in the 1980s, and many people _63_ it to increased portion sizes and inactivity, but that cant be everything. Fast foods and TVs have been _64_ us for a long time. Most experts agree that the changes were _65_ to something in
39、 the environment, says social epidemiologist Thomas Glass of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. That something could be a _66_ of the green. The new research, _67_ in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, isnt the first to associate greenery with better health, but it does g
40、et us closer _68_ identifying what works and why. At its most straightforward, a green neighborhood _69_ means more places for kids to play which is _70_ since time spent outdoors is one of the strongest correlates of childrens activity levels. But green space is good for the mind _71_: research by
41、environmental psychologists has shown that it has cognitive _72_ for children with attention-deficit disorder. In one study, just reading _73_ in a green setting improved kids symptoms. _74_ to grassy areas has also been linked to _75_ stress and a lower body mass index (体重指数) among adults. And an _
42、76_ of 3,000 Tokyo residents associated walkable green spaces with greater longevity (长寿) among senior citizens. Glass cautions that most studies dont _77_ prove a causal link between greenness and health, but theyre nonetheless helping spur action. In September the U. S. House of Representatives _7
43、8_ the delightfully named No Child Left Inside Act to encourage public initiatives aimed at exposing kids to the outdoors. Finding green space is not _79_ easy, and you may have to work a bit to get your family a little grass and trees. If you live in a suburb or a city with good parks, take _80_ of
44、 whats there. Your children in particular will love it and their bodies and minds will be _81_ to you. 62. A) findings B) theses C) hypotheses D) abstracts 63. A) adapt B) attribute C) allocate D) alternate 64. A) amongst B) along C) beside D) with 65. A) glued B) related C) tracked D) appointed 66.
45、 A) scraping B) denying C) depressing D) shrinking 67. A) published B) simulated C) illuminated D) circulated 68. A) at B) to C) for D) over 69. A) fully B) simply C) seriously D) uniquely 70. A) vital B) casual C) fatal D) subtle 71. A) still B) already C) too D) yet 72. A) benefits B) profits C) r
46、evenues D) awards 73. A) outward B) apart C) aside D) outside 74. A) Immunity B) Reaction C) Exposure D) Addiction 75. A) much B) less C) more D) little 76. A) installment B) expedition C) analysis D) option 77. A) curiously B) negatively C) necessarily D) comfortably 78. A) relieved B) delegated C)
47、 approved D) performed 79. A) merely B) always C) mainly D) almost 80. A) advantage B) exception C) measure D) charge 81. A) elevated B) merciful C) contented D) grateful McDonalds, Greggs, KFC and Subway are today named as the most littered brands in England as Keep Britain Tidy called on fast food
48、 companies to do more to tackle customers who drop their wrappers and drinks cartons (盒子 4 4 ) in the streets. Phil Barton, chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, 62 its new Dirty Pig campaign, said it was the first time it had investigated which 63 made up littered England and the same names appeared again and again. We 64 litterers for dropping this fast food litter 65 the first place but also believe the results have pertinent ( 相关的) messages for the fast food 66 . McDonalds, Greggs, KFC and Subwa