When students and parents are asked to rate(排名) 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 only 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 people 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(身份) as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be gained 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(現(xiàn)象). 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 as maths and science. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization(文明) 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  some important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away the meanings that music expresses from our children.
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, happiness, the meaning and value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
小題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(被忽視的) subject
D．prefer the arts to science
小題2: In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to       
A．compare it with rock music
B．show music identifies(身份) a society
C．introduce American musical traditions
D．prove music influences people’s lifestyles
小題3:According to the passage, the arts and science      .
A. approach the world from different angles(角度)
B. explore different phenomena of the world
C express people’s feelings in different ways
D. explain what it means to be human differently
小題4: What is the main idea of the passage ?
A．Music education deserves(值得) more attention.
B．Music should be of top education priority(優(yōu)先).
C．Music is an effective communication tool.
D．Music education makes students more imaginative.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:A

試題分析：文章介紹現(xiàn)在人們對音樂的不重視，然后作者從不同方面來論證自己的觀點：藝術(shù)和科學(xué)從不同的角度來審視社會。音樂教育應(yīng)該得到人們更多的關(guān)注。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段我們可以知道，學(xué)生們一般把music列為entertainment，列為not important。所以正確的答案為:A
小題2:推理判斷題。通過第二段最后三行The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.的描述，特別是最后一句話，我們可以斷定作者用爵士樂說明音樂的社會身份。該題的正確答案為:B。
小題3:推理判斷題。通讀文章我們知道藝術(shù)和科學(xué)從不同的角度來審視社會。而不是用不同的方式來表達(dá)人們的情感。選A。
小題4:主旨大意題。第一段話引出話題，表明人們對音樂的不重視，然后作者從不同方面來論證自己的觀點：音樂教育應(yīng)該得到人們更多的關(guān)注。
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