Can Loud Music Cause Hearing Impairment（損傷）
    Have You ever gone to a concert and realized that your seats were right next to the booming speakers?Are you guilty__________ （1）.turning up the volume on your portable cassette or CD player to drown out the whining（哭哭啼啼）of your little brother?Sometimes it‘s difficult to avoid loud music or noises,but they can be bad news because loud noises can__________ （2）temporary or permanent hearing loss.
    Extremely loud music and noises that go on for long periods of __________ （3） are common causes of deafness.If a noise is so loud that you have to shout to make yourself__________ （4）,there is a __________ （5）that the mechanism inside your ear can be injured Temporary hearing loss can happen after you‘ve been __________ （6）to loud noise for only 1 minutes.If you have temporary hearing loss.you won't be able to hear as __________ （7） as you normally can,and you may have tinnitus （耳鳴）,which is a fancy word for ringing in the ears.Your ears call feel“full”,too __________ （8） these things usually go away and your hearing soon returns to normal.
    Permanent hearing loss can happen when,someone is exposed to loud noise__________ （9）and over.Construction workers and people who work in factories must__________10）ear protectors because the equipment they use can be extremely loud.But even some lawn mowers（割草機(jī)）and power tools can permanently __________ （11） a person‘s ability to hear high-pitched noises and can also give him permanent tinnitus.Listening to extremely loud music over and over call also have the same effect on a person's __________ （12）。And using headphones on a portable cassette or CD player can be dangerous __________ （13）if the volume is too high and the headphones are used a lot,the noise can damage the ears.
    The best way to avoid hearing loss is to wear eat protectors when working with machinery and earplugs when going to a__________ （14）。Headphones are OK to wear when you‘re listening to music；just be sure the volume isn't too high,and give them a rest __________（15） once in a while.
    1 A of B for C at D on—
    2 A have B take C cause D tap
    3 A course B length C state D time
    4 A heard B appreciated C tracked D welcomed
    5 A luck B point C chance D sense
    6 A exposed B expressedC carried D reflected
    7 A good B well C regularly D stable
    8 A Unfortunately B Accordingly C Luckily D Unexpectedly
    9 A over B once C again D away
    10 A hear B bear C wear D tear
    11 A affect B effect C enforce D present
    12 A scope B attitude C survey D hearing
    13 A whereas B although C because D unless
    14 A concert B factory C meting D mall
    15 A each B every C all D for
    1 A “to be guilty of,‘是固定搭配,表示”有……之過(guò)“的意思。
    2 C 根據(jù)上下文,此處應(yīng)選表示“引起”之意的詞語(yǔ)。
    3 D 表示“長(zhǎng)時(shí)間”應(yīng)用“l(fā)ong period softime”。
    4 A “只有高聲喊叫才能”之后顯然應(yīng)選“被人聽(tīng)到”。
    5 C 句子要表達(dá)的意思是,如果只有高聲喊叫才能被人聽(tīng)到,那么就有耳內(nèi)機(jī)制受損的可能。
    6 A 要表達(dá)“暴露于”或者是“接受了”的意思,應(yīng)選“exposed to".
    7 B 要表達(dá)“聽(tīng)力不如原來(lái)好”,此處應(yīng)選能修飾動(dòng)詞“hear"‘而又表示”好“的副詞。
    8 C 因?yàn)榻酉聛?lái)講的是：這些毛病通常會(huì)消失,而你的聽(tīng)力很快也會(huì)恢復(fù)正常,所以這是件幸運(yùn)之事。
    9 A “over and over”是固定搭配,表示“不斷”的意思。
    10 C 根據(jù)上下文,此處應(yīng)選表示“戴”之意的詞語(yǔ)。全句的意思是：建筑工人和在工廠里工作的人們必須戴護(hù)耳器,因?yàn)樗麄兯褂玫脑O(shè)備會(huì)產(chǎn)生巨大的噪音。
    11 A 根據(jù)上下旬,此處應(yīng)選表示“影響”之意的詞語(yǔ)。全句的意思是：然而,即使是一些割草和電動(dòng)工具也會(huì)對(duì)人聽(tīng)高音的能力產(chǎn)生永久性的影響,并且也有可能給他造成永久性的耳鳴。。
    12 D 前一句講的是噪音對(duì)聽(tīng)力的影響。句子所講的是反復(fù)收聽(tīng)高音量的音樂(lè)會(huì)對(duì)聽(tīng)力產(chǎn)生同樣的影響。
    13 C 空格所填的詞連接著一個(gè)主句和一個(gè)從句,而從句表示的又是主句的原因,因此不難做出選擇。
    14 A 文章最后一段是對(duì)前面所談到內(nèi)容的總結(jié)。前面分別提到了器械與音樂(lè)所產(chǎn)生的噪音,而此旬已經(jīng)提及器械,因此接下來(lái)要選的應(yīng)是與音樂(lè)有關(guān)的,即音樂(lè)會(huì)。
    15 B 文章最后一句的意思是：聽(tīng)音樂(lè)時(shí)戴耳機(jī)是可以的,只是一定要確保音量不要太高,并且每過(guò)一段時(shí)間想著把耳機(jī)摘下來(lái)休息休息耳朵?！皁nce in a while”是固定搭配,表示“偶爾,有時(shí)”的意思。