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 ________ Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an _______ priority (最重要的事). This view is shortsighted._______ , music education is _______ and important to all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of human beings who _______ it, it reflects their thinking and values,_______ the social environment it came from. Rock music shows a _______ just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their _______ is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and _______ . It gives us identity as a society.
Music provides a kind of emotive perception (感知) that can ________ be shown in any other way. Science can just explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts,________ , explore emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and ________ to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
In exploration of the world, the arts are as ________ as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the ________ of civilization through which we ________ our fears, our curiosity, our hunger, our discoveries and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be ________ with others. When we do not give children access (机会) to an important way of expressing themselves such as music,________ , they miss an effective way to express themselves.
Science and technology do not tell us what it ________ to be human. The arts do. Through music, we express and ________ human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people to ________.
【小题1】 | A.creative | B.interesting | C.important | D.unique |
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【小题2】 | A.education | B.environment | C.economy | D.emotion |
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【小题3】 | A.After all | B.In fact | C.For sure | D.In general |
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【小题4】 | A.boring | B.disappointing | C.necessary | D.amusing |
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【小题5】 | A.believe | B.enjoy | C.create | D.discover |
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【小题6】 | A.as long as | B.as well as | C.as far as | D.as much as |
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【小题7】 | A.hobby | B.habit | C.lifestyle | D.custom |
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【小题8】 | A.compositions | B.life | C.habits | D.research |
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【小题9】 | A.ages | B.colors | C.interests | D.values |
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【小题10】 | A.still | B.also | C.always | D.hardly |
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【小题11】 | A.anyhow | B.however | C.otherwise | D.therefore |
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【小题12】 | A.apply | B.lead | C.react | D.get |
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【小题13】 | A.simple | B.strange | C.difficult | D.powerful |
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【小题14】 | A.history | B.language | C.experiment | D.result |
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【小题15】 | A.express | B.avoid | C.develop | D.hide |
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【小题16】 | A.talked | B.lived | C.shared | D.debated |
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【小题17】 | A.in other words | B.on one hand | C.above all | D.as a result |
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【小题18】 | A.builds | B.proves | C.means | D.leaves |
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【小题19】 | A.experience | B.desert | C.escape | D.strengthen |
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【小题20】 | A.appreciate | B.realize | C.wish | D.remember |
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