Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn’t matter where you live－ in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village the chances that you will be disturbed by jet planes , transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc, are almost everywhere. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they are working.
Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be very frightening experience for human beings. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums (耳鼓). The noise level in some disco is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.
One recent report about noise and concentration(專心) suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration , what really affects their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise, which doesn’t change too much (music, for example ) may even help people to concentrate.
小題1:The best title for this passage is________.
A．Noisy Life
B．Background Noise
C．Disturbed Concentration
D．Changeable Noise
小題2:From this passage, the pollution of noise __________.
A．doesn’t matter much
B．has become better in big cities
C．has become better in villages
D．has become worse everywhere
小題3:Scientists have discovered that what prevents people from concentrating is _________.
A．a(chǎn)ny kind of noise
B．great changes in level of noise
C．background noise
D．various background music

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B 

小題1:文章標(biāo)題題。文章內(nèi)容是：噪音越來越多及其影響。所以選A項。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合第一段內(nèi)容可知答案：生活變得越來越吵雜，沒有幾個人能從這樣或那樣的噪音中解脫出來。不論你住在哪里，市中心或者偏遠(yuǎn)山村，你的生活總是會被來自飛機、收音機、發(fā)動機等的噪音干擾。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合what really affects their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise可知答案：但是真正影響注意力的因素卻是不斷變化的噪音等級。
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