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【题目】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 (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 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 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 ex-pressing 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, 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】 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 feelings 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.

【答案】【1】A

【2】B

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】【1】 细节理解题。根据第一段第三句中" Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment " 可知。

【2】 推理判断题。根据第二段中" The jazz influence. . . is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. " 以及第二段最后一句" It gives us identity as a society. " 可知,音乐可以识别一个社会。

【3】 细节理解题。由文章第四段第二句" They are ways we human beings' talk' to each other. " 可知。

【4】主旨大意题。文章阐述了音乐的内涵、功能和重要性,所以音乐教育是需要我们特别重视的。

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【题目】Imagination and fantasy can play an important role in achieving the things we fear. Children know this very well. Fred Epstein, in his book If I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of his friends about Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone. He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination.

Tom loved to pretend, and he particularly loved to play super-heroes. Dr. Epstein explained that it was actually a brilliant way for his young mind to handle the terrifying and painful life he led.

The day before his third trip to the operating room, Tom was terribly afraid. " Maybe I could go as Superman " ,he whispered to his mom. Hearing this, the mother hesitated for a while. She had a-voided buying the expensive costume (戏装),but finally she a-greed.

The next day Tom appeared as the powerful Superman, showing off through the hospital halls and coolly waving his hand to the people greeting him along the way. And Tom, with the strength of his fantasy, successfully made it through the operation.

The power of for imagination need not be reserved for children only. We all have the power to use our fantasies to attempt things we never thought possible, to go through those things that seem impossible, and to achieve what we never believed we could. Just as Dr. Epstein puts it, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

It doesn't mean that you should dress as a superhero for your next job interview. But, next time you are tested in a way that seems impossible, imagine what it would take to overcome it. Become the person you need to become to win over your challenge and do it in your mind first. So, let your imagination run wild, and dare to dream.

【1】 What do we know about Tom?

A. He was seriously ill. B. He was a dishonest boy.

C. He was crazy about magic. D. He was Dr. Epstein's patient.

【2】 What can be inferred about Tom's mother?

A. She was a rich lady.

B. She refused Tom's request.

C. She wanted Tom to be a superhero.

D. She wanted to get Tom through the pain.

【3】 When Tom went for the third operation, he _________.

A. pretended to be painful B. acted like a superhero

C. appeared in poor spirits D. argued with his mother

【4】 In the last paragraph, you are advised _________.

A. to go through some difficult tests

B. to wake up from your wild dreams

C. to become a powerful person in your mind

D. to wear expensive clothes for job interviews

【5】 What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To tell us an interesting story.

B. To help us make right decisions.

C. To advise us to care about children.

D. To encourage us to use our imagination.

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