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单选题Tom was a wanderer. When his wife, Elsie, came to visit him at a care unit for patients with dementia, he would give her a perfunctory (敷衍的) kiss, then wander off through the rooms and stare out the window. Elsie tried to walk with him and hold hands, but he would shake her off, leaving her heartsick. A music therapist at the facility, Alicia Clair, was searching for ways to help couples like Elsie and Tom connect. Ms. Clair asked Elsie if she"d like to try dancing with Tom, then put on some music from the 1940s—Frank Sinatra singing Time After Time . Ms. Clair said, "I knew Tom was a World War Ⅱ vet, and vets did a lot of ballroom dancing." As Sinatra began singing, Elsie opened her arms, beckoning. Tom stared a moment, then walked over and began leading her in the foxtrot (狐步舞). "They danced for thirty minutes!" Ms. Clair said. When they finished, Elsie broke down and sobbed. "I haven"t been held by my husband in three years," she told Ms. Clair. "Thank you for bringing him back." Ms. Clair, a professor of music therapy at the University of Kansas, tells this story to show how music can reach people with Alzheimer"s disease. Music has the power to bypass the mind and wash through us, triggering strong feelings and cueing the body to synchronize with its rhythm. Researchers and clinicians are finding that when all other means of communication have shut down, people remember and respond to music. Familiar songs can help people with dementia relate to others, move more easily and experience joy. Tom had forgotten his name and couldn"t utter one word, but hearing Sinatra prompted him to dance. Music memory is preserved better than verbal memory, according to Ms. Clair, because music, unlike language, is not seated in a specific area of the brain but processed across many parts. "You can"t rub out music unless the brain is completely gone."

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单选题Author Eric Carle Hopes Friends Helps Him Find His On the back page of Eric Carle"s new picture book, Friends , is a brownish snapshot taken in 1932. It"s a sharp contrast to the rest of the book, which is filled with brightly painted tissue-paper collages (拼贴画). That"s become Carle"s trademark style in more than 70 books. In the snapshot, Carle, then 3, is smiling and hugging a girl in a white dress on a sidewalk in Syracuse, N.Y. At 84, Carle can"t remember her name, only that she was his friend and the daughter of Italian immigrants. At a lunch in Manhattan with Bobble, his wife of 40 years, Carle laughs at the old photo of two kids with their arms tightly around each other. In the book, the text with the snapshot notes that when Carle was 6, "I moved far away. We never saw each other again. I often think about my long-ago friend, and I wonder what happened to her." Friends (for ages 3-5) tells the story of two friends, a boy and a girl. When she moves away, the boy declares, "I must find her." Adventures continue until he does. It"s a story inspired by Carle"s childhood friend, who he is hugging in this photo, taken in 1932. It"s a happy ending: They played and ran and danced and told each other secrets... and got married. "It"s not exactly autobiographical (自传体)," says Carle, who divorced his first wife before "finding a new love and my best friend, Bobbie." Now, he and his wife spend winter in the mountains of North Carolina, summer in the Florida Keys and occasionally visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., which they began in 2002. It exhibits work by Carle and others. Four of Carle"s titles have been released as e-books, which have been slow to catch on with the preschool set. "I like to hold books and touch them," he says. "But in the future, who knows? When they invented papyrus (纸莎草纸), someone probably said, "Storytelling was so good. Why did we have to go and put it on papyrus?" But one thing doesn"t change: It"s the story that counts. The medium doesn"t matter."

单选题Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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单选题Never ______ until tomorrow what you can do today.

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单选题Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.