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（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, 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 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, 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．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 as 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 feelings 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】

试题分析：这篇文章主要讲了音乐是一种表达我们人类苦难，庆祝活动，和平与爱的意义和价值的重要方式。因此，音乐教育是人类更有必要去实行的教育。

1.从第一段我们可以知道，学生们一般把music列为entertainment，列为not important。所以正确的答案为A。

2.推理判断题。通过第二段最后三行的描述，特别是最后一句话，我们可以断定该题的正确答案为B。

3.推理判断题。通读文章我们知道艺术和科学从不同的角度来审视社会。而不是用不同的方式来表达人们的情感，故选A。

4.主旨大意题。第一段话引出话题，表明人们对音乐的不重视，然后作者从不同方面来论证自己的观点，音乐应该得到人们更多的关注，故选A。  

考点：教育类短文阅读理解。

点评：先阅读问题，然后带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。这篇文章难度适中，根据问题找到相关问题的段落或句子，便可选出答案。