【正文】 Bosom wants to send Martin to prison because . A. Martin39。s playing the piano damaged her health B. Bosom suffered from heart attack C. Martin refused to take regular classes in other towns D. Martin flew a jet over her head 22. How did Laia Martin respond to the plaints? A. She stopped playing the piano. B. She soundproofed the room. C. She didn39。t admit she played at home. D. She took her neighbor to court. 23. Which of the following may probably be the best title for the passage? A. A 7year Sentence Caused by the Piano B. Pianist Charged with Noise Pollution C. Health Problems of a Spanish Woman D. Actions Against Noise by Local Authority B Winters are long and unfiving in North Dakota. The winter of 1996 was especially brutal. It was a difficult time in my own life too. A neck injury had kept me flat in bed for nearly a year. Just in time for Easter, my husband, Dick, said. But how could I feel the joy when the snow was four feet deep and I had months of painful physical treatment ahead? I was doing the dishes one day, feeling hopeless when there was a tap against the glass. It was a branch of the troublesome cottonwood (棉白楊 ). Back in the fall of 1979, it was a new subdivision (細(xì)枝 )then. The people who39。d briefly occupied the house before us had placed the pipe from the pump next to it. The earth was so wet that the poor thing had fallen down, most of its bare root system pointing skyward, blowing hopelessly back and forth in the cold wind. Dick decided to pull it out one day, but I protested. Look at how hard it39。s trying! I said, pointing to the way it strongly kept hold of the earth. It deserves a chance. Dick borrowed some tools. We packed dry soil around the tree and put up some stakes (樁 ) into the ground, making it stand upright. That winter was still terrible. Surprisingly, in the spring my rescue stick put forth a few leaves, then with lots of branches. By the 1990s that little stick was a giant, towering over the house. Now the tapping at the window continued, louder as the wind picked up, almost as though to tell me to look up. At last, I did. I caught my breath. In the window against the icy blue sky, thousands and thousands of fresh red buds were waving in the wind. The tree was bursting with life and I had a wonderful Easter. 24. What is the meaning of the underlined word brutal in Paragraph 1 ? A. Busy. B. Hard. C. Long. D. Warm. 25. How did Dick rescue the new subdivision? A. By supporting the stick firmly. B. By watering the stick regularly. C. By distributing chemical fertilizer. D. By lighting the stick day and night. 26. The author writes the last paragraph mainly to . A. inform us of the current condition of his cottonwood B. imply that he39。d spent the hardest time and felt hopeful C. tell us that the tree had survived from the awful winter D. suggest what he was going to do for the ing festival 27. Which of the following can serve as the main idea of the passage? A. A friend in need is a friend indeed. B. There is no garden without its weeds. C. Success is the accumulation of sweat. D. While there is life, there is hope. C Do you ever pull your phone out of your pocket, thinking it is vibrating (振動(dòng) ), only to find that it isn39。t? This phenomenon, which scientists call phantom (幻覺的 ) phone vibration, is very mon. Around 80% of people surveyed say they have imagined their phones vibrating when they were actually still. So, what leads to this universal behavior? According to the BBC, the explanation lies in your brain39。s ability to discover signals from the outside world. When your phone is in your pocket, there are two possible states: it is either vibrating or not. Meanwhile, you also have two possible states of mind: the judgment that the phone is vibrating, or that it isn39。t. Ideally, you match the four states correctly. However, sometimes your brain decides that the consequences of missing a call are more serious than a false alarm. Therefore, you bee more sensitive to vibrations so that you don39。t miss anything. This is just like the fire alarm in your home—it can be annoying when it goes off in response to just a tiny bit of smoke. But that39。s a small price to pay pared to a fire really breaking out because the alarm fails to alert you. Now, you might still ask: why can39。t our brains just make every judgment correctly without being too sensitive to false signals? The answer is that your brain bears a heavy burden every day. You get a large amount of sensory information that39。s ing from your eyes, ears and skin, and you can39。t deal