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【题目】任务型阅读

How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as fun, but it’s not chosen firstly for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all.

Music tells us who we are. Music shows people’s thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Just as Mozart’s music represents a lifestyle, rock music also represents a lifestyle.

Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music studies the emotive(情感的) meanings. We need every possible way to discover and respond(回应) to our world because no one way can get it all.

Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings “talk” to each other. Through the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be humans. Music does.

So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.

Title: Music Education is of great 【1】

Outline	Detailed information
Opinions	Shortsighted opinion: Music is a way of fun, not the first 【2】 for education. Truth: Music 【3】 is important for all.
Reasons	Telling who we are	Music not only shows the social environment it came from but also expresses people’s 【4】 and values.
	【5】 the world	Music makes people be 【6】 to know the world in a different way. Music studies the emotive 【7】.
	Communicating with each other	We 【8】 music to express our feelings, discoveries, ideas and hopes. Music, 【9】 from science, tells us what it means to be humans.
Conclusion	Music education is 【10】 important and necessary.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】importance

【2】choice

【3】education

【4】thinking

【5】Knowing

【6】able

【7】meanings

【8】use

【9】different

【10】both

【解析】

短文大意：本文从多个方面说明了音乐教育对人的重要意义：音乐不仅表现了音乐产生的社会环境，而且表达了人们的认识和价值观；音乐为人们提供了一种以不同的方式认识世界的能力；音乐是思想的一种形式，是我们人类相互“交谈”的一种方式。所以，音乐教育是重要和必要的。

【1】题意：题目：音乐教育很重要。

形容词great修饰名词，根据主题句“In fact, music education is necessary and important for all”可知音乐教育对所有人都是必要和重要的，故答案为importance。

【2】题意：音乐是一种娱乐方式，不是教育的首选。

first首要的，形容词修饰名词；根据第一段“It is often considered only as fun, but it’s not chosen firstly for education. This opinion is shortsighted它通常只被认为是有趣的，但不是首选的教育。这种观点是短视的”故答案为choice。

【3】题意：音乐教育对所有人都很重要。

根据第一段末尾“In fact, music education is necessary and important for all事实上，音乐教育对所有人都是必要和重要的”故答案为education。

【4】题意：音乐不仅表现了音乐产生的社会环境，而且表达了人们的思想和价值观。

根据第二段“Music shows people’s thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from音乐反映了人们的思想和价值观，也反映了音乐产生的社会环境”故答案为thinking。

【5】题意：了解世界。

根据“Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. 音乐为人们提供了一种以不同的方式认识世界的能力”，联系上一栏Telling who we are故答案为Knowing。

【6】题意：音乐使人们能够以不同的方式了解世界。

本句缺表语形容词，根据“Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. 音乐为人们提供了一种以不同的方式认识世界的能力”故答案为able。

【7】题意：音乐研究情感意义。

根据“Music studies the emotive meanings音乐研究情感意义”故答案为meanings。

【8】题意：我们用音乐来表达我们的感觉、发现、想法和希望。

本句缺谓语动词，根据“Through the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas and our hopes so that they can be shared with others通过这种语言，我们表达我们的感受，我们的发现，我们的想法和我们的希望，以便与他人分享”可知我们运用音乐语言来表达我们的感觉、发现、想法和希望，故答案为use。

【9】题意：音乐不同于科学，它告诉我们作为人类意味着什么。

different from不同于，根据“Science does not tell us what it means to be humans. Music does科学并没有告诉我们成为人类意味着什么。音乐可以”可知二者不一样，故答案为different。

【10】题意：音乐教育是重要和必要的。

both用于两者都，根据“important and necessary”可知是both…and结构，故答案为both。