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 and 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 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 thoughts 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 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, 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. disagree with their parents on education
B. regard music as a way of entertainment
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. introduce American musical traditions
C. show music identifies a society
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 is an effective communication tool.
B. Music should be of top education priority.
C. Music makes students more imaginative
D. Music education deserves more attention.
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At cocktail parities the Queen moves from group to group, chatting informally, and manages to make one glass of drink last 2. entire evening.
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This is a true story about a boy who, the world might say, was a terrible underachiever. While in the eighth grade, he failed subjects repeatedly. High school wasn’t much better; he flunked Latin, algebra, English, and received a grade of zero in physics. The boy managed to make the school golf team, but he lost the most important golf match of the season.
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The name of this boy was Charles Schulz, the creator of the famous Charlie Brown and comic dog Snoopy.
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Just as Charles Schulz had faith in his artistic talent, so too, we must realize that nobody is a nobody. We all have special gifts and talents, and every human being is deserving and capable of being loved and appreciated.
1.The underlined word “flunked” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. failed B. learned
C. achieved D. misunderstood
2.What can we infer about the boy in Paragraph 2?
A. He was hated by his peers.
B. He achieved great success in drawing in high school.
C. His work was refused by Walt Disney Studios.
D. He earned the praise from Walt Disney Studios.
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A. gave up his dream finally
B. wrote some articles in magazines
C. he turned to others for help
D. he wrote himself as a loser in cartoons
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A. to open up our eyes
B. to believe we can make some difference
C. to learn more skills for development
D. to ask for more appreciation and love
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Nobody Is a Nobody.
B. A Hard-working Boy Is Successful.
C. We Should Turn Failure into Success.
D. One Cannot Succeed without Talents.
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5. Continue practicing and practicing the techniques aforementioned and soon, you'll achieve the reading speed that will work best for you.
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B.This saves time and reduces the effort that you have to make.
C.Taking a short break first is recommended before reading the material again.
D.As a final note, the most important point is consistent and deliberate practice.
E.Your invaluable time can be saved if you can have your reading speed doubled.
F.The first step to increase your reading speed is to identify the specific information you need.
G.Reducing the time you spend on a specific number of words in a block will make no difference.
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