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【題目】How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is short-sighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators' thoughts and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart's music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The influence of jazz, which George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music, is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.

Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world because no one way can get it all.

Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings "talk" to each other. Through this "language" we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.

So music education is much more important than people generally realize.

Title: Music education is of great 【1】

Passage outline	Detailed information
Introduction	Short-sighted opinion: Music is only a way of entertainment, not the top choice for education. Truth: Music education is necessary and important for all students.
Main body	A way to tell who we are: Music not only reflects the social environment it came from but also expresses people's thoughts and 【2】
	A way to know the world: We can't discover and respond to our world in just one way. Science explains how nature 【3】 Music explores the emotive meanings of nature.
	A way to communicate with others: We use music to 【4】 our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes. Music, 【5】 from science, tells us what it means to be human.
Conclusion	Music education is very important.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】importance/value

【2】values

【3】works

【4】express

【5】different

【解析】試題分析：這是一篇議論文，作者從三個方面論述了音樂（教育）的重要性：一是音樂告訴我們我們是誰；二是音樂提供了一種以不同的方式了解世界的能力；三是音樂是一種思維形式，和科學一樣強大。最后得出結論，音樂教育比人們普遍意識到的要重要得多。

【1】題意：音樂教育是 。考查綜合理解題。根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，作者從三個方面論述了音樂（教育）的重要性，結合最后的結論So music education is much more important than people generally realize.，可知填importance/value。

【2】題意：音樂不僅反映了它所產(chǎn)生的社會環(huán)境，也表達了人們的思想和 。考查細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段第2句Music reflects the creators' thoughts and values, as well as the social environment it came from.，可知填values。

【3】題意：科學解釋自然是如何 �？疾樵~義理解題。根據(jù)第三段第2句Science explains how the sun rises and sets.，可知填works。

【4】題意：我們用音樂來______我們的感情，我們的發(fā)現(xiàn)，我們的思想，我們的想像和希望�？疾榧毠�(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段第3句Through this "language" we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others.，可知填express。

【5】題意：音樂， 科學，它告訴我們做人意味著什么�？疾榧毠�(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段最后兩句Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.，可知音樂和科學是不同的，故填different。