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  The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat operation.His throat   1  , and he was afraid.However, the young nurse   2   by his bed smiled so   3   that the little boy smiled back.He   4   to be afraid.The young nurse was May Paxton   5   was deaf.May Paxton graduated   6   the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years   7   she went to see Dr.Richardson about   8   nurse.Dr.Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City.  9   had never heard of a deaf nurse.She told May that her   10  would be very low and that the work would be   11  .However, May said that hard work did not frighten her.Dr.Richardson was   12   her, and accepted May as a student nurse.

  Dr.Richardson never   13   her decision.  14  , she was so pleased with May’s work that she later accepted two other deaf women as student nurses.The   15   was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of   16  .The second was Miss Lillie Bessie.These three were   17   “the silent angles of Mercy Hospital” during the   18   they worked there.

  Dr.Richardson often   19   her faith in the girls’ ability to learn nursing.She wrote to May, “For three years, you have been with us…It is wonderful to me that no man,   20   or child ever, to my knowledge, made a complaint(投诉)against you…”

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seeking

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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(优先). This view is shortsighted. 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 comes 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 character and values. It gives 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, 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 human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebrations, 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 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.According to the passage, the arts and science        .

A.approach the world from different angles

B.explore different phenomena of the world

C.express people’s feeling in different ways

D.explain what it means to be human differently

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.

 

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