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s boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone. Some farmers even say their cows give more milk when they hear Muzak! A. Some people don39。t even realize the music is playing, but you react to the music anyway. Quiet background music used to be called elevator (電梯 ) music because we often heard it in elevators. But lately we hear it in more and more places, and it has a new name Muzak. About onethird of the people in America listen to Muzak everyday. The music plays for 15 minutes at a time, with short pauses in between. It is always more lively between ten and eleven in the morning, and between three and four in the afternoon, when people are more tired. 2 If you listen to Muzak carefully, you will probably recognize the names of many of the songs. Some musicians or songwriters don39。s not exactly the same. That39。 The next time you go into a bank, a store, or a supermarket, stop and listen. What do you hear? 1 It39。 studies C. encourage graduates to go into business D. show their contribution to higher education E. Muzak 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的七個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。 money to help a small number of people to earn high ines in the future is not one of them. Full government funding (資助 ) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18thcentury Oxford, where the academics lived fortably off the ine received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work。s own judgment D. being quick to express one39。s mind B. being able to increase one39。s inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes D. one should receive training to build up one39。s why slight differences in conversational styletiny little things like microseconds of pausecan have a great effect on one39。m finished. That39。s no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I39。s new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn39。 professional development D. appreciate their reporters39。t do it, they39。s what you want for him, too, isn39。ve given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom. So why is he looking for a way out? He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, and coa