Question

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(優(yōu)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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.A

4.A

【解析】

1.A 文章第一段指出，學生把音樂當做一種娛樂方式，A選項正確。按照第一段所說，學生和他們的家長對課程持同樣的態(tài)度，B錯誤。學生和家長認為音樂很好但不重要，并不認為音樂被忽視了，但實際上他們確實忽視了音樂，C錯誤。D選項是正反混淆，錯誤。

2.B 舉例子都是為了說明主旨的，就事論事的。答案顯然錯誤，排除A、C選項。D選項是偷換了概念，文中指出音樂只是反應我們的特征和價值觀，并不是影響我們的生活方式。B選項與第二段首、尾句的意思一致，正確。

3.A 文中第三段指出，音樂和科學是接觸世界的不同方式，A選項是該意思的同意轉述，正確。B選項是偷換概念，音樂和科學不是探索不同的現象，而是在同一個現象中探索不同的意義。偷換概念是出題者經常使用的手法，特別具有迷惑性，考生在平時訓練時一定要細心查看。C和D都是以偏概全，根據倒數第三段、倒數第二段段可知arts符合C、D的說法，但科學不符合。

4.A縱觀全文，特別是最后一段，我們可以看出，這篇文章的主旨在于呼吁音樂教育應該得到應有的重視。