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Part III Cloze (10%)
In Mr.Allen’s high school class, all the students have to “get married”. However, thewedding ceremonies are not real ones but 51 . These mock ceremonies sometimesbecome so 52 that the loud laughter drowns out the voice of the “minister”.Even the two students getting married often begin to giggle. DWG}}vN:&
The teacher, Mr. Allen, believes thatmarriage is a difficult and serious business. He wants young people tounderstand that there are many changes that 53 take place after marriage. He believes that the need for thesepsychological and financial 54 shouldbe understood before people marry. ~JJv 2
Mr. Allen doesn’t only introduce hisstudents to major problems 55 in marriage such as illnessor major problems 55 in marriage such as illnessor unemployment, He also exposes them to nitty-gritty problems they will faceever day . He wants to introduce young people to all the trials and 56 that canstrain a marriage to the breaking point. He even 57 this students with the problemsof divorce and fact that divorced men must pay child support money for theirchildren and sometimes pay monthly alimony to their wives. d
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It has been upsetting for some ofthe students to see the problems that a married couple often faces. 58 theytook the course, they had not worried much about the problems of marriage.However, both students and parents feel that Mr. Allen’s course is valuable andhave 59 the course publicly. Theirstatements and letters supporting the class have, 60 theschool to offer the course again. o<y7Ut
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Why do people always want to get upand dance when they hear music? The usual explanation is that there issomething embedded in every culture---that dancing is a ‘cultural universal’. Aresearcher in Manchester thinks the impulse may be even more deeply rooted thanthat. He says it may be a reflex reaction.
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NeilTodd, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, told the BA that hefirst got an inkling that biology was the key after watching people dance todeafeningly loud music. ‘There is a compulsion about it’, he says. He reckonedthere might be a more direct, biological, explanation for the desire to dance,so he started to look at the inner ear. xGqZ8v`v
The human ear has two mainfunctions: hearing and maintaining balance. The standard view is that thesetasks are segregated so that organs for balance, for instance, do not have anacoustic function. But Todd says animal studies have shown that the sacculus,which is part of the balance-----regulating vestibular system, has retainedsome sensitivity to sound . The sacculus is especially sensitive to extremelyloud noise, above 70 decibels.
‘There’sno question that in a contemporary dance environment, the sacculus will bestimulated.’ Says Todd. The average rave, he says, blares music at a painful110 to 140 decibels. But no one really knows what acoustically stimulatedsacculus does. # 8A|-u=3
Todd speculates that listening toextremely loud music is a form of ‘vestibular self-stimulation’ it gives aheightened sensation of motion. ‘We don’t know exactly why it causes pleasure.’he says. ‘But we know that people go toextraordinary lengths to get it’ He lists bungee jumping, playing on swings oreven rocking to and fro in a rocking chair as other examples of pursuitsdesigned to stimulate the sacculus. M:A7=rO~
The same pulsing that makes us feel asthough we are moving may make us get up and dance as well, says Todd. Loudmusic sends signals to inner ear which may prompt reflex movement. ‘The typicalpulse rate of dance music is around the rate of locomotion,’ he says. ‘It’squite possible you’re triggering a spinal reflex.’ E4PP&'
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Have you switched off your computer? How about your television? Your video?Your CD player? And even your coffee percolator? Really switched them off, notjust pressed the button on some control panel and left your machine with atelltale bright red light warning you that it is ready to jump back to life atyour command? *NDzU%X8
Because if you haven’t, you are one of the guilty people who are helping topollute the planed. It doesn’t matter if you’ve joined the neighborhoodrecycling scheme, conscientiously sorted your garbage and avoided driving towork. You still can’t sleep easy while just one of those little red lights isglowing in the dark. __)9JF
The awful truth is that household and office electrical appliances left onstand-by mode are gobbling up energy, even though they are doing absolutelynothing. Some electronic products ------such as CD players -------can usealmost as much energy on stand-by as they do when running. Others may use a lotless, but as your video player spends far more hours on stand-by than playinganything, the wastage soon adds up. A\WgtM
In the US alone, idle electronic devices consume enough energy to power citieswith the energy needs of Chicago or London---costing consumers around $1billion a year. Power stations fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide just todo absolutely nothing. i2EB.Zlv
Thoughtless design is partly responsible for the waste. But manufacturers onlyget away with designing products that waste energy this way because consumersare not sensitive enough to the issue. Indeed, while recycling has caught thepublic imagination, reducing waste has attracted much less attention. >zXw4=J
But “source reduction”, as the garbageexperts like to call the art of not using what you don’t need to use, offersenormous potential for reducing waste of all kinds. With a little intelligentshopping, you can cut waste long before you reach the end of the chain. -BR&b2
Packaging remains the big villain. One of the hidden consequences of buyingproducts grown or made all around the world, rather than produced locally, isthe huge amount of packaging needed totransport them safety. In the US, a third of the solid waste collected fromcity homes is packaging. To help cut the waste and encourage intelligentmanufactures the simplest trick is to to look for ultra-light packaging. `6UW?1_Z5
The same arguments apply to the very light but strong plastic bottles that arereplacing heavier glass alternatives, thin-walled aluminum cans, and cartonsmade of composites that wrap up anything drinkable in an ultra-light package. *&LVn)@[`
There are hundreds of other tricks you can discuss with colleagues whilegathering around the proverbial water cooler--- filling up, naturally, your ownmug rather than a disposable plastic cup. But you don’t need to go as far asone website which tells you how to give your friends unwrapped Christmaspresents. There are limits to source correctness. 1'M<{h<sP
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B. B .nobody seems to be innocent in pollutingthe planet W*gu*H^s~
C. C. recycling can potentially controlenvironmental deterioration y2&G0