Patience，without ________ you can't do the wo...

Patience，without ________ you can't do the work well，is a kind of quality.

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——How are you managing to do your work without an assistant?

——Well，I _____ somehow.

A. get along        B. come on      C. watch out            D. set off

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You can’t walk into the office without Rihanna’s voice singing “work work work work work work” in your head. And that one line from Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” still makes you want to scream. These are commonly known as earworm songs—those sticky tunes that continue to play in your head. A recent study finds that more than 90% of adults report hearing earworm songs on a weekly basis.

Fortunately, most people report earworm songs as pleasant. But others find them annoying or even maddening. “Some people are troubled by them to the point that it disturbs life,” says Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, a professor at the University of Arkansas who has studied earworm songs.

Margulis says earworm songs tend to have some predictable characteristics. For one thing, they tend to small parts of a song—not the whole track. And “the songs you’ve heard recently also have the most possibility to get stuck in your memory,” she says.

But sometimes something strange and unpredictable can also start a track paying in your head. “Once I was at the doctor’s office and saw a poster of a man who I thought looked like Gaston—a character from Beauty and the Beast,” Margulis recalls. A couple minutes passed, and she realized she couldn’t get “Be Our Guest”, the song in the movie, out of her head, even though she hadn’t thought of the tune in years. In that instance, she was able to identify her earworm’s trigger: the Gaston-looking man in the poster. “But the connections can be really unclear,” she says.

Margulis points out that, in all of human history, recorded music is a very new phenomenon. She says some have inferred that earworm songs are also new—the unintended consequence of being able to hear the same song played everywhere in the same way over and over again. So far, the convincing explanation for why human beings experience earworm songs remains a mystery. But there are some well-established ways to cast off the earworm songs.

“Finding a mentally demanding task and putting your mind on it usually shifts attention away from internal music. People tend to get earworms when performing tasks that don’t require their full attention—stuff like doing the dishes,” Margulis says.

Chewing gum can also help. When a song is stuck in our heads, it’s almost like we’re singing along with it. If you make your mouth do something else—chewing gum, eating a meal or talking with a friend—that can kick out the earworm.

You could also face your enemy. By listening to the full track that includes the passage stuck in your head, you may find “closure” and relief.

1.Which of the following is most likely to be an earworm song?

A.A song made up of simple words.

B.A song heard frequently these days.

C.A song sung by a most famous singer.

D.A song learned during one’s childhood.

2.What does the underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.Type. B.Tune.

C.Cause. D.Characteristic.

3.We can infer that earworm songs may ________.

A.result from modern technology B.be experienced over meals

C.help regain lost memories D.hurt one’s hearing

4.What is mainly talked about in the last three paragraphs?

A.Why we hear earworm songs. B.Where to find earworm songs.

C.When we hear earworm songs. D.How to get over earworm songs.

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—Mama, why can’t I work the maths problem out?

—Oh, let me see. Well, you ________ a figure here. Got it?

A. squeezed out                  B. picked out                      C. left out               D. wore out

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58. --- Do you still remember when we went to the Summer Palace?

--- I can’t remember it well, but it _____ sometime last July.

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You are _____ careful than your brother. You two can’t do the work that needs care and skill.

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You are _____ careful than your brother. You two can’t do the work that needs care and skill.

A. not more                B. no more                           C. not less                   D. no less

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— Do you have any problems when you _____ this job?

— Well, I’m considering the salary and working conditions.

A. offered         B. will be offered   C. are offered              D. offer

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—What do you think of your part-time job in the summer vacation?

—Well, the work is　　 , but I feel happy when I can make money using my hands.

A. tired 　　　　　　 B. tire

C. tiring 　　　　　 D. to be tiring

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I can’t remember _______ you started doing the work.

A. that it was when    B. when it was that

C. when was it that     D. that was it when

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