To me, life without music would not be exciting. I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone's life, whether he realizes it or not. Try to imagine, for example, what films or TV plays would be like without music. Would the feelings, the moving plot, and the greatest interests, be so exciting or dramatic? I'm not sure about it.
Now, we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning----the kind of music we hear in the concert hall. But if we look at some parts of music more closely, we discover them in our everyday life too----in the rhythm of the sea, the melody of a bird in the woods and so on. So music surely has meaning for everyone, in some way or other. And, of course, it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.
It is well said, “Through music a child enters into a world of beauty, expresses himself from his heart, feels the joy of doing things alone, learns to take care of others, develops his mind and makes his body strong.”
小題1:What dose the writer say more about in the text?
A．Life full of music.
B．Life without music.
C．The importance of music.
D．The development of music.
小題2:From the text, we learn that many people________.
A．don't realize the importance of music
B．get along quite well without music
C．go to the concert instead of enjoying music
D．think music would be less exciting than films
小題3:What does the underlined word “melody” mean in the text?
A．flyingB．lookingC．singingD．living
小題4:From the last paragraph, we learn that music________.
A．is very important, especially for children
B．is very necessary for our everyday life
C．can make our life exciting and dramatic
D．can enter into another beautiful world

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:A、

試題分析：文章介紹了音樂對(duì)人們的重要性，想象了沒有音樂的生活，音樂無處不在，特別是對(duì)孩子更重要。
小題1:主旨題：從第一段的句子：To me, life without music would not be exciting.可知這篇文章講的是音樂的重要性。選 C
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章的句子：I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record.可知很多人沒有意識(shí)到音樂的重要性。選 A
小題3:猜詞題：這里指鳥的歌唱。選C
小題4:歸納題：從文章的最后一段可知音樂，尤其對(duì)兒童來說，很重要。選A、
點(diǎn)評(píng)：這篇文章還是有一定難度的，考查全面，對(duì)這篇文章理解要到位，才能做題，考查推理題和句意理解，題目要我們理解有些重點(diǎn)的句子。集中考查了句意理解題，要求考生有較強(qiáng)的細(xì)節(jié)理解能力。
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