In the United States a voluntary organization called Musician Corps is making a difference in people's lives. Five years ago，Kiff Gallagher，the founder of the organization，realized that music and public services could be used together to help Americans in need. Recognizing that music has a positive effect on Alzheimer's disease and autism（自闭症），he had the idea of creating Musician Corps.

Musician Corps looks for musicians and trains them as teachers. Then the musicians provide these services in city schools，children's hospitals，and assisted-living homes for older adults. They also help organize community concerts. Anyone can play music at these community activities.

Kiff Gallagher says what makes Musician Corps different from other charity organizations is that everybody can take part. It provides a place for people to get involved. He remembers a Musician Corps event at a hospital. Afterwards，he says，the patients are less depressed.

David Meletiche, one of 200 musicians in Musician Corps, teaches an after-school guitar class in a high-crime neighborhood. He is excited that the group gives him not only a job in a difficult economy but also the chance to use the team-building skills he gained in college.

There are 12 high school students in his class. Selena Makwan, one of them who are learning to play the guitar, says the program keeps her busy.“It definitely keeps me off the streets, because without this program I probably would be wandering around right now and I would not know what to do. And it also gives me an opportunity to learn something I've never done before.”

Musician Corps has established programs in California and North Carolina. Kiff Gallagher hopes Musician Corps will continue to expand across America.

【小题1】Kiff Gallagher founded Musician Corps to ___________.

A．teach people music

B．help those in need

C．know better about sick people

D．offer jobs in a difficult economy

【小题2】What makes Musician Corps unique compared with other charity organizations?

A．It is open to anyone.

B．Its members are all musicians.

C．It can make people less depressed.

D．It teaches music in high-crime neighborhoods.

【小题3】From Paragraph 4, we can know that David Meletiche ___________.

A．loves his job as a guitar teacher

B．has to make a living as a guitar teacher

C．changed his job during economic depression

D．used the team-building skills when he was in college

【小题4】According to Selena Makwan, we can know that she ___________.

A．wants to be a guitarist in the future

B．likes to wander around the streets

C．benefits a lot from Musician Corps

D．wants to be a member of Musician Corps

When Pizza Saved a Life
Almost every night for more than 10 years, Kirk Alexander, 48, ordered a late dinner from his local Domino’s pizza store. Sometimes he would _______a salad, sometimes a pie, sometimes chicken wings. Then one day, he suddenly _______calling.
“It has been 11 days,” Domino’s general manager Sarah Fuller _________with KATU. Com, “which is not like him.”
Sarah had known Kirk since 2009. Many Domino’s delivery _________regularly made the short trip to Kirk’s ________, about six minutes away. She knew he worked from home, and that he rarely went outside. She ________knew that he had suffered health issues in the past. Something, Sarah worried, was ________.
Around 1 a. m. on Sunday, May 8, Sarah sent delivery driver Tracey Hamblen to Kirk’s house. Tracey ______Kirk’s door as he had ________times before and knocked. He could ________see the TV set and lights were on, but after several minutes, Kirk still didn’t answer the _______. Tracey called Kirk’s phone. The call went straight to voice mail.
Tracey _________back to the store, where 911 was called, and soon officers were on their _______.
When the police arrived at Kirk’s house, they heard a man calling for help from inside. They ________the house, and found Kirk on the floor _______immediate medical attention after _______from what Sarah said was a stroke(中风). One day later, _______they might have been too late.
Kirk was rushed to Salem Hospital, where he was _______in stable condition shortly after Sunday’s _______rescue. Sarah and other store employees visited him.
So is keeping an eye on regular ________part of Domino’s business plan? Not really, says Sarah, “Kirk is a part of our family here,” she shared with KOIN. com, “We felt like we needed to do something to build a warmer world.”

【小题1】

A．drop in B．call for C．bring in D．send for

【小题2】

A．finished B．enjoyed C．stopped D．avoided

【小题3】

A．explained B．wondered C．joked D．shared

【小题4】

A．drivers B．friends C．managers D．officers

【小题5】

A．office B．house C．club D．store

【小题6】

A．still B．just C．also D．ever

【小题7】

A．wrong B．curious C．different D．anxious

【小题8】

A．examined B．fastened C．discovered D．approached

【小题9】

A．countless B．hopeful C．various D．frequent

【小题10】

A．extremely B．especially C．clearly D．constantly

【小题11】

A．phone B．door C．call D．voice

【小题12】

A．rushed B．paced C．wandered D．stepped

【小题13】

A．duty B．watch C．concern D．way

【小题14】

A．broke off B．broke into C．broke through D．broke out

【小题15】

A．in danger of B．in favor of C．in face of D．in need of

【小题16】

A．surviving B．preventing C．suffering D．changing

【小题17】

A．or B．but C．so D．and

【小题18】

A．listed B．put C．checked D．regarded

【小题19】

A．grateful B．active C．dramatic D．accurate

【小题20】

A．passengers B．customers C．colleagues D．employers

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Facebook and Twitter are just two of my favorite things. These websites help me keep in touch with my friends and family, find out what 【小题1】 (interest) events are going on and see and share photographs within my social circle. However, the more time I 【小题2】 (spend) online the less sleep I got, and the 【小题3】 (bad) I felt. I was tired and in low spirits, and 【小题4】 (focus) on classroom lectures and activities became 【小题5】 (increasing) difficult.

I began to wonder whether or not there could be a relationship between the hours I spent on the screen and the bad effects it had the next day at school. 【小题6】(answer) my question, I made some research. I surveyed local middle and high school students. Eight hours is 【小题7】 recommended (建议的) amount of sleep for teenagers. From the responses, I found that those who slept for less than eight hours had about three hours of screen time per day, 【小题8】 kids who got more than eight hours of sleep had about two hours of screen time. The kids who slept less were more likely to suffer 【小题9】 stress, sleeplessness and anxiety. They performed poorly in tests and showed more mood 【小题10】 (problem).

An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. Aspirin has long been praised as a wonder drug and has been in your family since you can remember. Not only does it cure pain, it also lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke. But taking the pills daily may not work for everyone.
Although taking an occasional aspirin or two is safe for most adults to use for headaches，body aches or fever, daily use of aspirin can have serious side effects. Up to 60 per cent of us，both healthy people and those being treated for all types of heart disease may have some level of resistance to aspirin’s benefits.
Aspirin keeps platelets(血小板) from sticking, lowering the risk of clotting(结块)．People who are aspirin­resistant still get pain relief but not the full blood­thinning effects.
How do you know whether you’re resistant？New blood tests can help your doctor decide whether to give you a different medicine, especially if you’re at risk or are being treated for heart disease. The tests aren’t yet widely available, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
People taking aspirin daily should limit the amount of alcohol they drink because of its additional blood­thinning effects and potential to upset your stomach. Thus you should not have more than one drink if you’re a woman or two drinks a day if you’re a man. Does daily aspirin treatment differ between men and women？Recent studies have focused on the effects of aspirin in women，finding that its effects differ between the sexes, and for women, between age groups.
All in all, aspirin is still an effective, affordable and simple option for many people at risk of heart attack and stroke. Though it is readily available, always check with your doctor before starting daily aspirin treatment.
【小题1】Aspirin has got the reputation of a wonder drug because ______.

A．an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away

B．it can make people feel less painful

C．it helps to prevent heart attacks and strokes

D．it doesn’t have any serious side effects

【小题2】Which of the following statements about aspirin is TRUE?

A．Aspirin does have blood­thinning effects.

B．If you are resistant to aspirin, you won’t feel pain.

C．People taking aspirin won't suffer from heart attacks.

D．60 per cent of people couldn't benefit from aspirin.

【小题3】What do we know about the blood tests mentioned in the fourth paragraph?

A．The new examination doesn’t hurt at all.

B．The tests only help aspirin­resistant people.

C．Doctors do the tests to test new medicines.

D．Only some people have ever taken the tests.

【小题4】We can infer from the passage that ______.

A．drinking alcohol will make people feel uncomfortable

B．drinking alcohol could influence the function of aspirin

C．alcohol has much greater effects than aspirin on blood­thinning

D．people should not drink any alcohol while taking aspirin daily

【小题5】What does the writer think of taking aspirin daily?

A．People should be careful to make this decision.

B．This treatment is effective, affordable and simple.

C．It could be used to cure heart attack and stroke.

D．Old women should not start this kind of treatment.