Do you often listen to music at loud volumes? You should know that this habit is bad for your hearing. Over 1 billion young people are at risk of hearing loss(听力丧失), because of listening to loud noise for long periods of time. Listening to music or watching a TV show at loud volumes can harm your hearing.
The United Nations has standards for safe listening. It is not safe to listen to sounds that are louder than 85 dB (分贝) for eight hours or 100 dB for 15 minutes.The sound of a busy road is about 85 dB and the sound of a rock concert can be about 100 dB.
Loud noise is harmful to the inner ear. Most of us are born with about 16,000 hair cells(听毛细胞) in our inner ears. These cells notice sounds. However, listening to loud noise for a long time can make these cells work too hard and cause some of them to die. This is what causes hearing loss Once this happens, it's hard to get your hearing back.
Some people might think that their music isn't all that loud. But this can depend on where you are. For example, if you are in a noisy place like the subway, you might turn up your music too loud without realizing it. Later, when you listen to it at the same volume in a quiet place, you might feel uncomfortable.
The "safe level" for most sound is below 80 dB for up to 40 hours a week. a level of 80 dB is about equal to(相当于) the noise of a subway.
Here is some advice on safe listening. Over﹣the﹣ ear headphones(头戴式耳机) are better than in﹣ear ones. They do a better job of stopping outside noise, so you can listen at a lower volume.Don't listen to loud music on your headphones for a long time. Follow the 60: 60 rule: listen to music at 60 percent of your headphones' maximum volume for no more than 60 minutes a day.
根据短文内容,判断下列句子正误.正确的用"A表示,不正确的用"B"表示.
(1)It is safe to listen to sounds that are louder than 100 dB for 15 minutes.
(2)Listening to loud noise for a long time can cause some hair cells in the inner ear to die.
(3)From the fourth paragraph, we know people don't always realize how loud their music is.
(4)In﹣ear headphones are better than over﹣the﹣ear ones because they can stop more outside noise.
(5)This article mainly tells us why ears are an important part of our bodies.
根据以下信息写一篇70词左右的短文:(短文需包含以下内容,但不要逐句翻译)
1、我名叫Tom,13岁,我家离学校很远,每天乘公交车到校要花费我大约20分钟,我通常在学校吃中餐。
2、我非常喜欢音乐,我会打鼓,且打得很好,我想参加下个月学校举行的音乐节。
3、每天晚饭后,我跟父母散步约1小时,然后做一个小时的作业,我大约在9点钟睡觉。
参考词汇:music festival音乐节
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We often read the Air Quality Index(空气质量指标)or AQI reported in the newspaper. The AQI helps us understand what the air quality around us means to our health. The AQI uses colors, numbers and words to tell us about the air. Let’s see what these colors and numbers mean.
AQI colors |
AQI Numbers |
Health word(s) |
What to do |
Green |
0-50 |
Good |
Just enjoy the clean air! |
Yellow |
51-100 |
Moderate (适中) |
Air quality is fine for most people. |
Orange |
101-150 |
Unhealthy for sensitive(敏感的) groups |
Active children and adults and people with lung(肺) disease should spend less time outdoors |
Red |
151-200 |
Unhealthy |
People with lung disease and active kids and adults shouldn’t spend too long time outdoors. Everybody else should try to spend less time outside. |
Purple |
201-300 |
Very unhealthy |
People with lung disease and active kids and adults should not spend any time outdoors. Everybody should try not to go outside. |
If the weather report says today’s AQI is 39, we can ________.
A.enjoy the clean air | B.spend less time outside |
C.try not to go outside | D.stay inside most time |
If the Air Quality Index is ______, the air quality is good for most people.
A.orange | B.red | C.purple | D.yellow |
The _______ AQI numbers are, the _______ air quality is.
A.bigger; better | B.bigger; nicer | C.smaller; better | D.smaller; worse |
We use ________ to tell about the quality of the air .
① color②words③weather④numbers
A.①②③④ | B.①②③ | C.①②④ | D.②③④ |
Which of the following is TRUE?
A.If the AQI number is 140, the AQI colour will be red. |
B.If the AQI colour is purple, the air is the best for people. |
C.People with lung disease are very sensitive to the air. |
D.The AQI can’t help people know the air quality. |
My name is Lucy. I come from America. I am now in China. I study in Hangzhou Shulan Middle School. There are many clubs in our school. They are an English club, an art club, a music club, a ball game club, a swimming club, a chess club and a computer club. There is a “Show Yourselves !” Festival in our school every year. On that day, students from different clubs show their talents in different ways. They can sing English songs, draw and paint beautiful pictures. They can play the guitar, the violin, the piano, and the trumpets. They can also play chess and show us their swimming skills. They like the festival very much. I join the art club, and I paint the ads (广告)for them . Giving(付出) help makes me happy. Lucy is from __________.
A.Beijing | B. Paris | C.New York | D. London |
There are ________ clubs in Hangzhou Shulan Middle School.
A.five | B.six | C.seven | D.eight |
Lucy is in the ________ club.
A.music | B.English | C.chess | D.art |
The students from the art club show their talents by(通过……方式) _______.
A.singing English songs | B.painting nice pictures |
C.playing beautiful music | D.showing their drawing skills |
________ makes Lucy happy.
A.Joining the club. | B.Showing her skills |
C.Painting for the Festival | D.Studying in a good school |
A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in the trees. They sleep there at night.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too.
Crows “live on bad food” means “ _________ ”.
A.Crows eat old bad food. |
B.Old bad food is crows’ nests. |
C.Crows make their nests on old bad food. |
D.Crows sleep on old bad food. |
Crows are more useful to us because they ________________.
A.are clean birds | B.can move away waste food |
C.can make our streets clean | D.aren’t dirty |
Crows always look for food _________.
A.in the evening | B.all day | C.in the morning | D.at night |
People can’t hear crow talk __________.
A.together | B.by turns | C.noisily | D.quietly |
If a pair of crows loves each other, ________
A.they will not live together. | B.neither of them can live alone happily. |
C.they will die | D.one of them will die |
Look at the plant in the picture. It looks beautiful, right? Can you imagine (想象) it kills?
The Venus flytrap is a kindof meat-eating plant. It grows in very few places, like wetlands near the sea in North Carolina in America.
The Venus flytrap is not a large plant. It grows to be only about a foot tall. The plant has white flowers in the spring, but it is the plant’s leaves that make it so interesting. The ends of the leaves have folding parts with stiff, tiny hairs (带小硬刺的可折叠部分). These are the plant’s “traps (捕捉器)”.
What does the Venus flytrap eat? As you might guess, the Venus flytrap eats flies (苍蝇). It also eats spiders, ants and crickets (蟋蟀). The Venus flytrap makes most of its food with sun, air and water, just like other plants. Living things just give it extra nutrition (额外营养) to grow well in wetlands.
How does this plant trap and eat living things? The Venus flytrap uses a sweet liquid (液体) to attract its food. When a fly lands on one of the plant’s open traps, hairs on the surface make the trap close. And when the trap closes, the fly is dinner!
If you want to have your own Venus flytrap at home, you have to buy the plant from a special place. You can’t take a Venus flytrap from where it grows! There are laws about taking it out of the wild.
Where does the Venus flytrap grow?
A.In the wetlands. | B.In the desert. | C.In the rocks. | D.In the sea. |
About the Venus flytrap, which of the following is true?
A.It is a large plant. |
B.It only eats spiders. |
C.It has white flowers. |
D.It can fly in the sky. |
Which is the right order of the following events in Paragraph 5?
a. The trap of the Venus flytrap closes.
b. A fly lands on one of the plant’s open traps.
c. The fly is kept in the trap as the food of the plant.
d. The Venus flytrap uses a sweet liquid to attract its food.
A.d-b-a-c | B.a-b-c-d |
C.b-d-a-c | D.d-b-c-a |
How can people get a Venus flytrap?
A.They can get it from where it grows. |
B.They can buy it from a special place. |
C.They can grow it in their gardens. |
D.They can buy it in a park. |
Why does the Venus flytrap kill?
A.Because it needs extra nutrition. |
B.Because it hates flies. |
C.Because insects are its main food. |
D.Because it kills for fun. |