Question

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，用英语回答问题。

    What are some of your favorite stories? Sometimes music and stories go together. Some songs tell stories. If you’ve sung “Billy Boy”, you’ve sung a story. Sometimes music without words can also seem to tell a story. The sounds can almost make you see pictures in your mind. Some music can make you imagine good people, bad people, singing birds, ships at sea and even the broom’s（笤帚）marching （进行曲）.

    What is brooms marching? That is part of the story told in a famous piece of music for orchestra （管弦乐队）by a Frenchman named Paul Dukas. The music is called The Sorcerer’s （魔法师的）Apprentice（徒弟）.

    When you hear the music for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, you can imagine what’s happening. The quiet-sounding music makes you think of what the sorcerer is doing. Later, when it’s his apprentice’s turn, the music changes into a kind of funny little march, which helps you to imagine how a broom might walk! But then something goes wrong with the apprentice. He can’t make the broom stop! It keeps filling the bucket（桶）with water and bringing it back and watering the floor.

  1. What kind of music can tell us stories?

  2. Who and what can we imagine when we hear music?

  3. Does Paul Dukas make music?

  4. Does the sorcerer practice better or worse than his apprentice?

  5. How does the broom’s marching really sound?

 

Answer 1

答案：
提示：

1.    (Both) songs and music without words can tell us stories；答案在第一段找； 2.    We can imagine anybody and anything. 可以由第一段最后一句推断出； 3.  Yes, (he does). 答案在第二段找； 4.  (He practices) better. 由文章第三段内容可以推断出； 5.  (It sounds) a little funny. 从 “…the music changes into a kind of funny little march…” 可以推断出。