语篇解读:本文主要介绍了莎士比亚故居及相应的对外开放时间。
21.How much would they pay if a couple with their two children visit the exhibition?
A.£5.2. B.£13.4.
C.£15. D.£18.6.
解析:选C 细节理解题。结合题干可知,是一家人去参观莎士比亚故居,结合文章图表中的"Family £15.00"可知,一家人去参观需要£15。
22.What is the deadline to enter the exhibition on Friday in July?
A.4 pm. B.5 pm.
C.5:30 pm. D.6 pm.
解析:选C 细节理解题。根据文章图表时间"Jun.-Aug."和对应的"Monday-Saturday"并结合题干可知,7月的周五参观莎士比亚故居最迟的时间是下午5点30分。
23.What can we see in Shakespeare's birthplace?
A.Old furniture. B.Ancient restaurants.
C.Colored gloves. D.Shakespeare's plays.
解析:选A 推理判断题。根据第一段的第三句"The house has been exactly furnished, and includes both original and copy items similar to those which would have been there in the house when Shakespeare was a boy"可知,在莎士比亚故居可以看到一些保留下来的旧家具,故选A。
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(2018·青岛质检)Sunitha Suresh was a college student when her grandmother had a major operation and was put in intensive care (特别护理) with three other patients. This meant her family couldn't always be with her. They decided to put her favorite Indian music on an iPod, so she could listen around the clock.
Sunitha could see the music relaxed her grandmother and made her feel less anxious, but she wondered if she also felt less pain. That would make sense because anxiety can make people more sensitive to pain. At the time Sunitha was majoring in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University where her father, Santhanam Suresh, is a professor. So father and daughter decided to work together on a study.
It was a small study, with 60 patients between 9 and 14 years old taking part in it. All the patients, who were children, had big operations that required them to stay in hospital for at least a couple of days. Right after their operations, the patients took medicine to control pain. The next day they were divided into three groups. One group listened to 30 minutes of