Today, many cultures divide music______ art music and music of the people.
A、from
B、into
C、over
D、beneath
第1题:
The speaker believes that .
A.music is a spoken language
B.music develops as we grow up
C.music is above the other arts
D.music plays an important part in our life
第2题:
Music accompanies many important occasions.
第3题:
Just as Caribbean carnival traditions are a evolving mosaic of African culture composed of African rituals ,craftsmanship,music and dance,Trinidad's carnival is also a beautiful mosaic of cultures of different continents and races.()
第4题:
He has composed many pieces of music popular with young people, ________ this is an example.
A、with which
B、for which
C、of which
D、of that
第5题:
Text 4Material culture refers to the touchable, material “things”—physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used—that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of “things” in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments on the symphony orchestra.
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as a whole.
Music is deep-rooted in the cultural background that fosters it. We now pay more and more attention to traditional or ethnic features in folk music and are willing to preserve the folk music as we do with many traditional cultural heritage. Musicians all over the world are busy with recording classic music in their country for the sake of their unique culture. As always, people’s aspiration will always focus on their individuality rather than universal features that are shared by all cultures alike.
One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, and television, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the “information-revolution”, a twentieth century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.
第36题:Which of the following does not belong to material culture?
[A] Instruments.
[B] Music.
[C] Paintings.
[D] Sheet music.
本题考查推理引申。第一段首句对“物质文化”下定义为:文化中产生的能看到、摸到、感觉到和使用的自然物体。接着该段第三、四句提到,音乐文化中最生动的物质载体是乐器。从第一段末句可知,图片、文字记载以及乐器都是研究音乐文化的物质手段。第二段首句接着指出,乐谱也是物质文化。因此[A]、[C]和[D]都是物质文化,只有[B]不是。
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第9题:
Popular music is different from classical music and folk music in that()
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To demonstrate that all cultures use modern slang
To focus on the tribulations of starving artists who cannot pay their rent
To convey that there are certain constants in cultures, regardless of their era
To show that cultures frequently change and reinvent themselves
To determine that all artists, regardless of era; prefer rock music
第13题:
What is NOT the purpose of this music program?
A.To study the language of music.
B.To learn more about the music.
C.To give a complete background to the music.
D.To give people some music to listen to.
第14题:
Art music is generally harder to write and perform.
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完形填空Music is part of every culture on Earth. Many people feel that music makes life worth___1___. We can make music ourselves if we play an instrument or sing. We can hear music on CDs and on radio or television. Music gives us pleasure. It can cheer us up, excite us, or___2__us. Music can be happy, sad, romantic, sleepy-all kinds of things. But what is it? Some people define it___3___an artful arrangement of sounds across time. Our ears___4___these sounds as loud or soft, high or low, rapid and short. The sounds need to continue for a time in some sort of pattern to become music. Music,___5___language, is a uniquely human form. of communication. As with language, there are many different kinds. In North America, people listen to jazz, rock, classical, folk, country, and many other kinds of music. Each kind of music has its own rules and "speaks" to us___6___its own way. What we think of music depends on___7___we live. What Americans are used to listening to might sound___8___to someone from another culture, and vice versa. It might not even sound like music. In Indonesia, gamelan orchestras play music on gongs, drums, and xylophones. These aren't the instruments you'd find in a___9___orchestra in North America. Today, modern communications make it___10___for us to listen to music from all over the world. Music from one part of the world influences music from another part. For example, gamelan music from Indonesia influenced 20th-century American composers such as John Cage.
1)
A、to live
B、live
C、living
D、lived
2)
A、soothe
B、plump
C、plunge
D、send
3)
A、to
B、as
C、with
D、at
4)
A、interfere
B、intervene
C、interface
D、interpret
5)
A、like
B、dislike
C、love
D、unlike
6)
A、at
B、to
C、in
D、on
7)
A、when
B、where
C、what
D、which
8)
A、strange
B、familiar
C、good
D、comfortable
9)
A、physical
B、chemical
C、economical
D、typical
10)
A、unlikely
B、like
C、possible
D、impossible
参考答案:1-5:CABDA 6-10:CBADC
第17题:
From the third paragraph, we may infer that_____.
[A] traditional cultural heritage is worthy of preservation
[B] the universal features shared by all cultures aren’t worthy of notice
[C] musicians pay more attention to the preservation of traditional music
[D] the more developed a culture, the more valuable the music it has fostered
本题考查推理引申。第三段第二句提到,我们(we)越来越关注民乐中的传统和民族特色,并且在对待许多传统文化遗产时愿意将民乐保存下来。第三句以音乐家记录自己国家的古典音乐为例说明上文。该句中we包括了作者本人,因此可推知[A]是作者所赞同的观点。[C]错在more,因为文中并没有将音乐家对待传统音乐和现代音乐的态度作对比。该段末句提到,人们(people)总是渴望保留个性特色,而不是找到所有文化共有的普遍特点。可见,文中只是客观叙述人们对文化的偏好,没有贬低“文化共有的普遍特点”的价值。排除[B]。该段首句提到,音乐根植于孕育了它的文化之中。这说明文化决定音乐的特色,与“发达”或“价值”没有关联,排除[D]。
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Popular music is different from classical music and folk music in that()
Ait is very noisy
Bit is anonymous
Cit is written as a commercial product for mass distribution
Dit is an individual artistic creation
第21题:
下列文件中,没有经过任何压缩处理的音频文件是()。
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from
into
over
beneath