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When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（優(yōu)先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.   ks5u

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well ad the social environment it came influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from  American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.   ks5u

Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.   ks5u

The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.   ks5u

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.   ks5u

So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.   ks5u

 

68. According to Paragraph 1, students   ks5u

A. regard music as a way of entertainment   ks5u

B. disagree with their parents on education   ks5u

C. view music as an overlooked subject   ks5u

D. prefer the arts to science   ks5u]

69. In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to   ks5u

A. compare it with rock music   ks5u

B. show music identifies a society   ks5u

C. introduce American musical traditions   ks5u

D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles   ks5u

 

70. According to the passage, the arts and science      .   ks5u

A. approach the world from different angles   ks5u

B. explore different phenomena of the world   ks5u

C express people’s feelings in different ways   ks5u

D. explain what it means to be human differently  

 

71. What is the main idea of the passage?   ks5u

A. Music education deserves more attention.   ks5u

B. Music should be of  top education priority.   ks5u

C. Music is an effective communication tool.   ks5u

D. Music education makes students more imaginative.   ks5u

 

 

Answer 1

  68 A。   ks5u

解析： 從第一段我們可以知道，學(xué)生們一般把music列為entertainment，列為not important。所以正確的答案為:A   ks5u

  69 B。   ks5u

解析： 推理判斷題。通過第二段最后三行的描述，特別是最后一句話，我們可以斷定該題的正確答案為:B。   ks5u

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  70 A。   ks5u

解析： 推理判斷題。通讀文章我們知道藝術(shù)和科學(xué)從不同的角度來審視社會。而不是用不同的方式來表達(dá)人們的情感。   ks5u

  71 A。   ks5u

解析： 主旨大意題。第一段話引出話題，表明人們對音樂的不重視，然后作者從不同方面來論證自己的觀點：音樂應(yīng)該得到人們更多的關(guān)注。   ks5u

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