| A．Jazz. | B．Classical. | C．Rock. |
2 . Enjoying a musical performance no longer requires a costly ticket or a trip to a theater. These days, musicians are performing in private homes, at haircutting shops, at airports...even on ferry boats.
Musicians like house concerts. At music clubs, they often have to perform over loud conversation or deal with people who have had too much alcohol. People at house concerts are more focused on listening to the music.
Just a few hours before the Bombadils started singing at the O' Hair Salon, Lindsay was cutting hair and Tamera was doing facials. Then, they moved chairs and microphones to create a small performance space. The Bombadils made music in the front part of the hair salon, near the hairdryers and makeup tables.
“This is our first show at a hair salon，” Sarah Frank of the Bombadils told concertgoers at last week's performance. Frank said she and band members, Luke Fraser and Kaitlyn Raitz had a great time “interacting” with the audience.
Concerts in people's homes, or small businesses such as O' Hair's, are becoming more popular, musicians say.“There is a more relaxed atmosphere，” said Domenic Cicala, a musician who opened up his O' Hair Salon to concerts.“People really get to know the artists.”
At house concerts, people get time before and after concerts to meet the performers. Often, the hosts or guests will provide food and drink.
“People really like listening to music in the living room of a friend，” said Matt Hart, with Aubrey Zoli making up the Local Strangers, a folkrock group based in Seattle. At many such concerts, the musicians do not need microphones. Yet, every word of their songs can be heard.
1. Why do musicians like house concerts?| A．Because private homes are easier to get to. |
| B．Because people pay more attention to their music. |
| C．Because they can do other things while performing. |
| D．Because they don't have to bring their microphones. |
| A．The small performance space. |
| B．Her first show at a hair salon. |
| C．Their interaction with the audience. |
| D．The more relaxed atmosphere. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．Musicians struggle to make a living |
| B．People really get to know the artists |
| C．Musicians find new places to perform |
| D．Concertgoers won't go to music clubs |
3 . You dash through a crowded railway station, tripping over bags, spilling (泼出) your coffee, only to have the doors slide shut in your face, leaving you breathless on the platform as the train pulls away.
But at least, if you’re in France, someone may be playing the piano for you. But it won’t be performed by a paid musician, or even a street entertainer playing for coins. It will just be a random passer-by, jamming for the fun of it on one of the pianos that the national railroad company, S. N. C. F., has fixed in nearly 100 stations across France. They are free for anyone to play, and travelers from all walks of life have taken to doing just that.
Gares & Connexions, the S. N. C. F. division that manages its stations, rents the instruments from the producer, Yamaha: which maintains them and tunes them every month or two. The first one was set up in the Gare Montparnasse in Paris in 2012.
The music, mixed with the sounds of shouting passengers, screaming trains and rolling suitcases, gives French stations a special soundscape. The amateur musicians have included Irish soccer fans and even babies. In 2014, Gares & Connexions and Yamaha organized a nationwide contest called Your Turn to Play, asking participants to submit videos of themselves using one of the pianos. It drew nearly 900 entries.
Isn’t the railroad company taking a big chance? Apparently not: “None of the instruments has been vandalized to this day, or even merely damaged,” said Claire Foumon, a spokeswoman for Gares & Connexions. “They are shared and respected by all.”
So if you miss a train in Paris; Bordeaux or Marseille one day, perhaps someone will be playing a favorite piece that will ease your pain. Or perhaps you’ll sit down and play your annoyance away yourself.
1. Why did Gares & Connexions fix pianos in railway stations?| A．To advertise Yamaha’s products. | B．To make stations more attractive. |
| C．To let travelers have a relaxing trip. | D．To help street artists make a living. |
| A．The contest has proved a hit. | B．The pianos are very popular. |
| C．Railway stations are crowded. | D．Everyone can be an amateur musician. |
| A．Selected carefully. | B．Checked regularly. |
| C．Reserved in advance. | D．Destroyed on purpose. |
| A．Miss a train yet catch a tune | B．A soundscape in the memory |
| C．The role of piano in French life | D．An amazing train with a piano bar |
1. When did the music club hold their activity?
| A．Last night. | B．Tonight. | C．This afternoon. |
| A．He hoped to surprise them. |
| B．He didn’t think he would play well |
| C．He would feel nervous if they were necessary. |
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. |
| A．Schoolmates. | B．Sister and brother. | C．Husband and wife. |
5 . Chuck Berry, the man often called the “father of rock and roll” is still performing at 85. Another music great, Smokey Robinson, has described Chuck Berry as “the inspiration for all of today’s rock 'n' roll guitarists." And, Anthony Kiedis calls him “a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues.”
On stage, he became known for his wild performances, and his “duck walk” that many musicians copied. But his songwriting skills—some call him a rock and roll poet—and his guitar work really set him apart. Early in his career he played mostly blues for black audiences in clubs in St. Louis, Missouri. But the most popular music in the area was country. So this musical scientist mixed country and blues.
Chuck Berry was born on October 18th, 1926, in St. Louis, where he still lives. His mother, Martha, was a high school principal. He was born the fourth of six children. He started singing in church when he was six years old. His interest in music stuck with him.
A lot of Chuck Berry's material is about teenage life, especially school. Chuck Berry and two friends were arrested after they used a gun to steal a car. He was released from prison four years later. But that would not be the last of his legal problems over the years.
Filmmaker Taylor Hackford made a documentary called “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll,” named for a Chuck Berry song. It centered on the making of a concert to honor the musician on his sixtieth birthday in 1986. More than seventy-five artists and bands have done their own versions of Chuck Berry songs. Many have done several, including the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty and Bruce Springsteen.
1. Which of the following makes Chuck Berry different from other musicians?| A．Wild performance and duck walk. |
| B．skills of creating songs and guitar work |
| C．Duck walk and skills of creating songs. |
| D．Guitar work and wild performance. |
| A．was influenced by the education of his mother |
| B．wrote most of his songs that reflected his teenage life |
| C．show his musical talent at an early age |
| D．didn’t have legal problems after he became a successful musician |
| A．Chuck Berry had a lot of music used in filmmaking. |
| B．Chuck Berry is also interested in performing in movies. |
| C．Chuck Berry had a concert to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. |
| D．Chuck Berry has a great influence on many musicians. |
6 . Good morning. The program today is about music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but it uses sounds. Today’s program brings together music from different corners of the world. Who invented music? Who sang the first song? No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone’s life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to sing the songs they have heard. When children go to school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades students take music lessons. When they reach high school, they become more and more interested in listening to pop music.
The records we have chosen for you today are from American country music, Indian music, pop music and so on. Music has different meanings for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad. Music is now heard everywhere, in shops, on buses and at home. In this program we shall study the language of music. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another is bad.
Now, here comes the music today. I shall explain why they are all good music...
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
| A．Some knowledge about music. |
| B．The origin of music. |
| C．Something about the announcer. |
| D．Some questions about music. |
| A．To study the language of music. |
| B．To learn more about music. |
| C．To find out how music expresses people’s feelings. |
| D．To tell us we should listen to music every day. |
| A．It is important to almost everyone. |
| B．It is necessary for the young. |
| C．It plays a great role when we are children. |
| D．It decides our future. |
| A．old and unpopular music |
| B．nice and popular music |
| C．songs sung by the young today |
| D．reasons why some composers（作曲家） play such music |
7 . A guiding principle for master cellist Yo-Yo Ma is that “the intersection(交汇) of cultures is where new things appear.” Certainly his biography is an intersection of cultures. He was born to Chinese parents in Paris, France; both his parents were musicians. When he was seven, his family moved to the United States. Gifted for his age, Ma attended Juilliard, the world famous music institute. He then chose to earn a liberal arts degree at Harvard rather than focusing only on music.
Even in his earliest performing years, Yo-Yo Ma had a strong belief that it was important to share music with all kinds of people. Stories are told about how he once performed in the hallway of a large building for people who were unable to get tickets to his concert. He remained interested in making music accessible to diverse audiences and furthered his interest in different cultures when he visited the Bushmen of the Kalahari. He developed a vehicle to further these ideals when he founded the Silk Road Project.
As he has said, the Silk Road is a metaphor(隐喻) for a number of things: as the Internet of ancient times, the routes were used for trade, by religious people, adventurers, scientists, storytellers. Everything from algebra to Islam moved along the Silk Road. It’s the local-global thing. In the cultural world, you want to make sure that voices don’t get lost, that rich traditions continue to live, without becoming common.
This lesson explores the philosophy behind Yo-Yo Ma’s founding of the Silk Road Ensemble(乐团), his belief that the arts, and particularly music, can make the world better, and that through cooperation, one can both preserve tradition and shape cultural evolution. Students also explore their own attitudes toward the arts, writing reflective essays on how the arts have played a role in their own lives.
1. What do we learn about Yo-Yo Ma according to Paragraph 1?| A．He studied music in France. |
| B．He started his career in Harvard. |
| C．He showed great musical talent. |
| D．He earned a liberal arts degree in Julliard. |
| A．Car. | B．Medium. |
| C．Skill. | D．Project. |
| A．The route is key to musical development. |
| B．It has significant influence on the world. |
| C．It simply helps with the spread of religions. |
| D．Traditions are passed on through the route. |
| A．To foster cooperation in business. |
| B．To record the voices along the route. |
| C．To explore people’s attitude toward the arts. |
| D．To share music and promote cultural development. |
8 . After four silent years, the 27-year-old British singer Adele Adkins has finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album 25, which will come out on Nov. 20.
Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.
"I wanted to fix people’s hearts," she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.
Adele didn’t go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing(治愈) powers. "Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele," said The Telegraph. "She writes a pop diary, sharing the simple secrets of her heart."
Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label that she would spend "four or five years" making her next album. She told Vogue magazine, "I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 21."
Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Walking Dead.
Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. "Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’s not living in the real world," Adele told i-D." So I live a low-key life for my fans."
1. What does the text mainly tell us?| A．The popularity of Adele’s album 25. |
| B．The healing powers of Adele’s music. |
| C．The secrets of Adele’s success in music. |
| D．The reason for Adele’s becoming a singer. |
| A．Adele wasn’t interested in music. |
| B．Adele wasn’t good at music at first. |
| C．Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life. |
| D．Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to. |
| A．To live a low-key life. |
| B．To win the Grammy Award. |
| C．To guarantee the quality of her music. |
| D．To share the secrets of her heart as a musician. |
| A．Her album Hello will come out on Nov. 20. |
| B．She has kept a diary since childhood. |
| C．She moved to the countryside before 2012. |
| D．Her works are based on real life. |
You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search suggests plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.
The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex （复杂的）and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we’ll become more intelligent.
The idea got across to the public, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.
I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?| A．Mozart composed many musical pieces for children. |
| B．Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent. |
| C．There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music. |
| D．There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect. |
| A．the idea was accepted by many people |
| B．people were strongly against the idea |
| C．Mozart played an important part in people’s life |
| D．the US government helped promote the idea |
| A．Favorable. | B．Objective. | C．Positive. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Listening to Mozart, necessary? |
| B．What music is beneficial? |
| C．What is the Mozart effect? |
| D．To accept Mozart or not to? |
Marian Anderson was an American. She was born in 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up surrounded by poverty. Yet she remembered her family as a
It was in church that Marian first
Marian’s father
At about this time, several people told Marian that she should have a voice teacher. They told her that a beautiful voice could be destroyed
The people in Marian’s church were very
Marian was a talented singer. But without those people’s
| A．normal | B．wealthy | C．surprising | D．happy |
| A．tried | B．began | C．dreamed | D．pretended |
| A．suffering | B．joy | C．trust | D．love |
| A．decreased | B．changed | C．grew | D．appeared |
| A．common | B．poor | C．unwilling | D．busy |
| A．find | B．charge | C．teach | D．afford |
| A．piano | B．voice | C．skill | D．interest |
| A．died | B．moved | C．escaped | D．concluded |
| A．protect | B．offer | C．hold | D．support |
| A．continued | B．decided | C．refused | D．stopped |
| A．believed in | B．referred to | C．heard of | D．thought of |
| A．considered | B．accepted | C．doubted | D．followed |
| A．in the middle of | B．next to | C．out of | D．all over |
| A．so | B．because | C．if | D．unless |
| A．carefully | B．strangely | C．differently | D．naturally |
| A．influence | B．encouragement | C．training | D．effort |
| A．careful about | B．afraid of | C．angry with | D．proud of |
| A．only if | B．even though | C．as if | D．in case |
| A．collected | B．counted | C．promised | D．returned |
| A．decision | B．help | C．opinion | D．lessons |
