When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their to say, but not impirtant Too often it is viewed as 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 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 came from American musical traditions Music expresses our character and values, Lt give us identity.
Music provdes a kind of percepton(感知)that cannot be acquied 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: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 ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others When we do mot give away from them the meanings that music expresses
So music eeducation is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
(1)
According to paragraph I, students ________.
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A.
regard music as a way of entertainment
B.
disagree with their parents on education
C.
view music as an overlooled subject
D.
prefer the arts to science
(2)
In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to ________.
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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 ________.