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【題目】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 short－sighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.

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 as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our characters and values. It give us identity as a society.

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.

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 and 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.

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be humans. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love. So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.

【1】According to Paragraph 1, students ________.

A. regard music as a way of entertainment

B. disagree with their parents on education

C. view music as an overlooked subject

D. prefer the arts to science

【2】In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to ________.

A. compare it with rock music

B. show music identifies a society

C. introduce American musical traditions

D. prove music influences people's lifestyles

【3】Which can explain how the sun rises and sets?

A. Music. B. Science.

C. The arts. D. Technology.

【4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Music education deserves more attention.

B. Music should be of top education priority.

C. Music is an effective communication tool.

D. Music education makes students more imaginative.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】本文屬于政治經(jīng)濟(jì)文化類(lèi)閱讀。本文介紹了作者認(rèn)為藝術(shù)教育尤其是音樂(lè)教育是相當(dāng)重要的，作者認(rèn)為藝術(shù)尤其是音樂(lè)是人類(lèi)表達(dá)情感的重要方式 ，人們應(yīng)該對(duì)音樂(lè)加強(qiáng)認(rèn)識(shí)。

【1】A

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第三句“Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important.。Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment...” 人們似乎說(shuō)音樂(lè)很好聽(tīng)，但并不重要，它往往被視為單純的娛樂(lè)。分析句意可知選A正確。

【2】B

細(xì)節(jié)題解題。根據(jù)第二段“The jazz influence... is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.”…引入爵士樂(lè)的影響顯然是美國(guó)的,因?yàn)樗鼇?lái)自美國(guó)音樂(lè)傳統(tǒng)。以及第二段最后一句“It gives us identity as a society.” 它賦予我們一個(gè)社會(huì)的身份。可知，音樂(lè)可以識(shí)別一個(gè)社會(huì)，故選B。

【3】B

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段第二句“Science can explain how the sun rises and sets.” 科學(xué)可以解釋太陽(yáng)是如何升起和落下的。分析本句可知答案為B。

【4】A

主旨大意題。在文章第一段最后一句“In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.” 事實(shí)上，音樂(lè)教育對(duì)所有學(xué)生都是有益的和重要的。及最后一段“Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love. So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.”音樂(lè)是我們表達(dá)人類(lèi)痛苦、慶祝、和平與愛(ài)的意義和價(jià)值的重要方式。所以音樂(lè)教育比人們似乎意識(shí)到的要多得多。綜觀全文可知闡述了音樂(lè)的內(nèi)涵、音樂(lè)的功能和音樂(lè)的重要性，所以音樂(lè)課是需要我們特別重視的。故選A