Question

【題目】Why doesn’t the conductor face the audience?【1】As the only person with his back to the audience, the conductor is a figure who is bathed in the spotlight, but his complex work requires a high degree of musical skill, as well as an ability to extract what he desires out of the group of artists he leads--his orchestra.

【2】A person may become a conductor without graduating from the conducting department of a music school or studying in any kind of conductor’s training program. However, becoming the conductor of a famous orchestra requires a great deal more than what is needed merely to join an orchestra.

【3】These naturally examine a conductor’s technique and musical interpretation while he conducts an orchestra through a prepared piece of music, but they also involve a sight-reading element.【4】The conductor then has to sit in a room and memorize the piece before coming out and leading the orchestra through the piece by memory. Not only does the conductor have to make his arm and hand motion properly, and signal all the entrances of each instrument, he has to point out intentional mistakes made by the orchestra members on the spot.

The least capabilities a conductor must have are: The ability to memorize an entire score. A good ear for distinguishing correct notes among the music of the entire orchestra.【5】

Of the conductors that meet these requirements, those with better musical insight and a higher level of charisma(魅力) will succeed.

A. The need for a common musical standard becomes necessary

B. The ability to lead a group of professional musicians

C. There are many conducting competitions

D. For this, the score of music is given to the conductor on site

E. This is how the role of the conductor came to be established

F. The role of the conductor is in fact not well understood

G. There are no examinations for becoming a conductor

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】F

【2】G

【3】C

【4】D

【5】B

【解析】本文主要介紹了樂隊(duì)的指揮總是背對著觀眾，而不面向觀眾的原因，以及成為一名樂隊(duì)指揮需要哪些方面的能力等。

【1】F根據(jù)前面的“Why doesn’t the conductor face the audience”可知，人們對樂隊(duì)指揮這一工作不甚了解，再根據(jù)本空后的內(nèi)容推斷應(yīng)選F項(xiàng)。

【2】G根據(jù)本空后面的“A person may become a conductor without graduating from the conducting department of a music school or studying in any kind of conductor’s training program”可知，樂隊(duì)的指揮不需要畢業(yè)于專業(yè)的音樂學(xué)校或經(jīng)過相關(guān)的訓(xùn)練，與G項(xiàng)的“不用考試”一致。

【3】C根據(jù)空格后面的“These naturally examine a conductor’s technique and musical interpretation while he conducts an orchestra through a prepared piece of music”可知，應(yīng)選C項(xiàng)。這里的These指的是C項(xiàng)中的competitions。

【4】D根據(jù)后面的“The conductor then has to sit in a room and memorize the piece”可知應(yīng)選D項(xiàng)，即把音樂的總譜現(xiàn)場給樂隊(duì)指揮，然后指揮需要現(xiàn)場記憶。

【5】B與前面的“The ability to memorize an entire score”中的ability是并列的。故選B。