If you are a young college student, most of yourconcerns about your health and happiness in life areprobably (36) ______ on the present. (37) ______ ,you want to feel good physically, mentally, and (38) ______ now. You probably don't spend much timeworrying about the (39) ______ future, such as whether you will develop heart disease, or (40) ______ , how you will take care of yourself in your (41) ______ years, or how long you aregoing to live. Such thoughts may have (42) ______ your mind once in a while, however, if youare in your thirties, forties, fifties, or older, such health related thoughts are likely to become(43) ______ important to you. (44) ________________________________________________________ that will help you feelbetter physically and mentally. Recently researchers have found that, even in late adulthood,exercise, strength training with weights, and better food can help elderly individuals significantlyimprove their health and add happiness to their life. (45) ______________________________________________________ giving us the opportunityto avoid some of the health problems that have troubled them. (46) __________________________________________________________ .
Around the world young people are spendingunbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music.Forbes Magazine (36) ______ that at least fifty rockstars have (37) ______ of between two million andsix million dollars per year.
"It doesn't make sense," says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music (38) ______ , who made amillion dollars a year when he was most (39) ______ , in the 1950s. "(40) ______ aren't worththis kind of money. In fact, nobody is."
But the rock stars' (41) ______ seem to disagree. Those who love rock music spend abouttwo billion dollars a year for (42) ______ . They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.
Some observers think the (43) ______ are buying more than music. According to one theory,to play rock music doesn't require much training. (44) ______________________________________________________________ . Every boy andgirl in the audience thinks, "I could sing like that." Rock music has become a kind of religion. (45) ____________________________________________________________________________________ .
Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was DonMcLean, who wrote and sang "American Pie." McLean earned more than a million dollars fromrecordings of "American Pie." (46) ______________________________________________________________________________ .
46. 标准答案:Then too, by writing his own music, McLean earns some extra money
听音关键:writing music,earn extra money
答案重构:Then, McLean earns some extra money by writing his own music, too.
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Test 4
Section C
Sports and games make our bodies strong, preventus from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. Butthese are not their only use. They give us (36) ______ practice in making eyes, brain and (37) ______ work together. In tennis, our eyes see theball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this (38) ______ on to the brain. The brainthen has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and soon, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with verygreat speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this (39) ______ chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, thepractice of such skills is (40) ______ useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for (41) ______ training. In their lessons at school, boysand girls may learn about such (42) ______ as unselfishness, courage, (43) ______ and love ofone's country (44) _____________________________________________________________ . The ordinaryday-school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils' time isspent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time (45) _____________________________________________________ . If each of them learns towork for his team and not for himself on the football field, (46) ___________________________________________________________ .