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单选题The act of Googling oneself has become the digital age"s premiere guilty pleasure—an activity enjoyed by all and admitted by few. The phenomenon has even been the subject of scholarly research. Last year, a study concluded that the practice of self-Googling can partly be traced to a rise in narcissism (自恋) in society, but that it is also an attempt by people to identify and shape their personal online "brand". The reason people search for themselves is that they"re curious about what other people see when they search for their name. One problem is they don"t have any control over the search results and they will never appear on the first page of the search results. If your name is Brian Jones and you"re not the former Rolling Stones guitarist, you don"t exist. To give people a bit more control over search results, Google introduced a feature this week called a "Google profile" which users can create, so that a little personal information appears at the bottom of US name search pages. Once users create a Google profile, their names, occupation, locations and photos appear in a box on the first page of the search results for their names. Besides, there"s a link to a full Google profile page that in many ways resembles a Facebook page. The similarity to Facebook is no accident. By giving users a little control over the results that appear on a search for their names, Google hopes to establish a social network base and take on wildly popular sites like Facebook and MySpace. Facebook users who otherwise couldn"t be bothered to set up a separate profile page on Google might find the idea appealing if it gives them some control over the Google search results for their names. The more information you add to your profile, the higher your page is likely to be ranked on a Google search for your name and associated keywords, such as the name of your hometown, your job title or where you work or go to school. And the more richly detailed your Google profile is, the more Google knows about you. There"s no advertisement attached to Google profiles, but in the future, the company could easily sell ads targeted to your personal details, much as they"ve already done on Gmail.

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单选题Observations were made ______ the children at the beginning and at the end of pre-school and first grade.

单选题According to the passage, it is hardly to measure Freud's influence on modern art, ______.

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单选题Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.

单选题Language learning is a slow ______ process.

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单选题The old are most displeased with the young generation's ______.

单选题 {{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Musicians - from karaoke singers to professional cello players - are better able to hear targeted sounds in a noisy environment, according to new research that adds to evidence that music makes the brain work better. "In the past ten years there's been an explosion of research on music and the brain," Aniruddh Patel, Senior Fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, said today at a press briefing. Most recently brain-imaging studies have shown that music activates many diverse parts of the brain, including an overlap in where the brain processes music and language. Language is a natural aspect to consider in looking at how music affects the brain, Patel said. Like music, language is "universal, there's a strong learning component, and it carries complex meanings." For example, brains of people exposed to even casual musical training have an enhanced ability to generate the brain wave patterns associated with specific sounds, be they musical or spoken, said study leader Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University in Illinois. But for people without a trained ear for music, the ability to make these patterns decreases as background noise increases, experiments show. Musicians, by contrast, have subconsciously trained their brains to better recognize selective sound patterns, even as background noise goes up. At the same time, people with certain developmental disorders, such as dyslexia (诵读困难), have a harder time hearing sounds amid the continuing loud confused noise - a serious problem, for example, for students straining to hear the teacher in a noisy classroom. Musical experience could therefore be a key therapy for children with dyslexia and similar language-related disorders, Kraus said. In a similar vein, Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug has found that stroke patients who have lost the ability to speak can be trained to say hundreds of phrases by singing them first. In research also presented today at the AAAS meeting Schlaug demonstrated the results of intensive musical therapy on patients with lesions (损伤) on the left sides of their brains, those areas most associated with language. Before the therapy, these stroke patients responded to questions with largely incoherent sounds and phrases. But after just a few minutes with therapists (治疗师), who asked them to sing phrases and tap their hands to the rhythm, the patients could sing "Happy Birthday," recite their addresses, and communicate if they were thirsty. "The underdeveloped systems on the right side of the brain that respond to music became enhanced and changed structures," Schlaug said. Overall, Schlaug said, the experiments show that "music might be an alternative medium for engaging parts of the brain that are otherwise not engaged."

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单选题Which one of the following, according to the author? was first discovered or invented in human civilization?

单选题One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that ______.

单选题The mechanism that______ the turntable is broken. There has to be someone here to mend it this afternoon.

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