Many people while they are at home alone imagine having the opportunity
2 . I remember that it was a fall morning when the orchestra (管弦乐队) teachers came into Miss Newell’s third-grade classroom. “You have hands for the viola (中提琴),” Miss Ciano told me. I was excited because my hands were finally good for something. I told my parents I wanted to play, and naturally, they agreed.
Since I first touched the viola, I haven’t been able to put it down. Ignoring the difficulty, I am pulled closer to it each day. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it will become your friend for life.
Classical music is truly my best friend. It is the trusted friend of every man, woman and child. Various feelings are expressed in classical music. I discovered that when I was eleven and played a cello concerto (大提琴协奏曲) of Bach in a competition, the first movement was joyful, but the second movement was mysterious and full of pain. From the piece, I learned that music expresses not only feelings, but also sudden mood changes. By listening to classical music, I know that someone else shares these feelings. Since I am lucky enough to be able to play classical music, I am comforted by it when I am upset. It gives me away to escape from my problems for a short period. Classical music can express my joy, sadness and anger.
Now look back at that fall day in the third grade and think how gullible I was for believing that anyone, even music teachers, could tell whether hands were perfect for a certain instrument. I’m certain they told me I had “viola hands” not because they were fortune-tellers (算命师), but because there was a lack of violists in our neighborhood. Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind.
1. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the first and second paragraphs?| A．To introduce an interesting musical class. | B．To show the importance of proper guide. |
| C．To offer the evidence of her gift for music. | D．To tell the power of support from parents. |
| A．By developing social skills. | B．By broadening life experience. |
| C．By improving mental health. | D．By building close relationship. |
| A．Firmly disapproved. | B．Easily tricked. |
| C．Greatly affected. | D．Secretly hidden. |
| A．Lifetime dream, great effort. | B．Happy childhood, unforgotten experience. |
| C．Special event, sweet memory. | D．Classical music, endless friendship |
3 . Seba Stephens is only 10 years old, but he’s a very talented musician. He plays drums, bass, guitar and piano. Recently, he earned a professional certificate (证书) in music through the Berklee Online program at the famous Berklee College of Music.
Seba and his family live in Memphis, Tennessee — a place famous for music. He grew up with music all around, but he especially loved the drumming of Stewart Copeland from the band The Police.
Before he turned three, his parents asked him what he wanted for his birthday. “Drums!” he answered. His parents weren’t sure, but after seeing him play the drums at a local music store, they decided he was serious. They bought him a junior drum kit. It was a huge step. “He didn’t stop playing — ever,” said his dad, Everett.
In just a few months, his drum teacher reported that Seba was learning extremely quickly and needed a higher level of training. He was still four.
Seba’s parents encouraged him to explore music in other ways. Seba learned bass, guitar and piano. He faced challenges. “I couldn’t see over my drum set,” he said. He also had trouble finding a good bass that was small enough,
In 2020, Everett got special permission for Seba to join a summer music program at Berklee as an 8-year-old boy. Seba studied bass in an online program. To keep up, he had to practise up to 36 hours a week.
After the intense summer, Everett thought Seba might want a break. He was wrong. Instead, Seba asked his parents to home-school him so he could keep going to Berklee during the school year. His parents had to make some big changes to make the plan work, but they agreed.
Last May, Seba became the youngest person ever to receive a professional certificate from Berklee. The certificate is equal to about four college-level classes.
1. What is Stewart Copeland?| A．A teacher. | B．A drummer. | C．A pianist. | D．A soldier. |
| A．Three years old. | B．Four years old. |
| C．Eight years old. | D．Ten years old. |
| A．No time to practise. | B．Many things to learn. |
| C．Difficulties in finding proper instruments. | D．The requests made by the teacher. |
| A．The Musical Journey of a Famous Musician |
| B．An Online Program at Berklee College of Music |
| C．A Teenage Drummer Inspires Kids’ Music Education |
| D．A 10-year-old Drummer Earns Certificate From Berklee |
4 . You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed of Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search shows 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 aroused 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 no doubt a genius himself; his music is complex and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we’ll become more intelligent.
The idea took off, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the USA, 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 (接触) 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 effect on milk production to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of 16 different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary (临时的) 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 the Mozart effect. |
| A．People were strongly against the idea. |
| B．the idea was accepted by many people. |
| C．Mozart played an important part in people’s life. |
| D．the US government helped promote the idea. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Objective. | C．Doubtful. | D．Positive. |
| A．Listening to Mozart, necessary? | B．What music is beneficial? |
| C．What is the Mozart effect? | D．To be or not to be? |
5 . A music festival, which is often presented with a main idea, is a community event mainly about live performances of singing and instrument playing. On the list are the music festivals for fans around the world. Find your favourite now!
Field Day
January 1, 2022, Sydney
Field Day means New Year’s Day for young people in Sydney. Seen as the city’s original outdoor party, it’s a gathering of friends coming together for a great fun-filled first day of the year. There’s an air of hope and active energy on a perfect summer’s day.
Envision Festival
February 21-26, 2022, Uvita
The Envision Festival is an annual event in Costa Rica that wants to provide a chance for different cultures to work with one another to create a better community. The festival encourages people to practise art, music and dance performances. At the same time, our connection with nature is expected to be strengthened.
McDowell Mountain Music Festival
March 2-4, 2022, Phoenix
The McDowell Mountain Music Festival is Phoenix’s musical celebration of community culture. Since its founding in 2004, it is the only 100% nonprofit(非营利的) music festival designed to support, entertain and educate the community. The festival attracts thousands of visitors each year from around the country, and it is an opportunity to experience true culture.
Old Settler’s Music Festival
April 19-22, 2022, Tilmon
The Old Settler’s Music Festival is a nationally known music festival for American music. The festival is held in Tilmon, Texas at the height of the wild flower season. The Old Settler’s Music Festival offers great music and activities for the whole family.
1. Which city should you go to if you intend to participate in a music festival in January?| A．Sydney. | B．Uvita. | C．Phoenix. | D．Tilmon. |
| A．It encourages people to receive education. |
| B．It is not held to make money. |
| C．It provides a chance for friends to meet each other. |
| D．It focuses on culture spread. |
| A．Field Day and Envision Festival. |
| B．Envision Festival and McDowell Mountain Music Festival |
| C．Old Settler’s Music Festival and McDowell Mountain Music Festival. |
| D．Envision Festival and Old Settler’s Music Festival. |
6 . Sirine Jahangir has a rare condition that left her completely blind by the time she was 10 years old. While her parents and doctors have tried to find
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When she
Afterward, she said, “I can’t even say it’s a dream come true,
| A．destinations | B．examples | C．challenges | D．treatments |
| A．bring about | B．adapt to | C．give up | D．figure out |
| A．see | B．hear | C．guess | D．move |
| A．minded | B．considered | C．started | D．missed |
| A．recognition | B．power | C．fortune | D．happiness |
| A．value | B．talent | C．confidence | D．experience |
| A．easy | B．amazing | C．energetic | D．difficult |
| A．danced | B．appeared | C．lied | D．painted |
| A．achievement | B．misunderstanding | C．love | D．knowledge |
| A．headed | B．ran | C．pulled | D．changed |
| A．smiled | B．cried | C．sang | D．jumped |
| A．Painfully | B．Obviously | C．Unfortunately | D．Unsurprisingly |
| A．meeting | B．competition | C．experiment | D．funding |
| A．because | B．if | C．before | D．unless |
| A．frightening | B．formal | C．realistic | D．awkward |
Once there lived a girl named Melanie. The little girl was living with a dream. She wanted to be a ballet dancer. Her body was very flexible and she had a strong will power. Melanie’s parents never knew of the great dancing skills their daughter had until one day, they saw the little girl dancing with the beautiful steps of a ballerina.
“Isn’t it strange? Melanie is dancing so well without any formal training!” the mother said.
“We must give her ballet lessons to help her improve her skills,” her father said.
The following day, Melanie’s parents took her to a local dance training school. The teacher asked Melanie to dance. The little girl was happy and showed some of her favorite dance steps. However, the teacher didn’t seem interested in her performance.
“That’s OK. You can leave now!”the teacher said.
Melanie was shocked to hear this. So were her parents. They couldn’t believe their ears.
“The girl is common. She does not have the possibility to become a ballerina, ”the dance teacher said. “Don’t let her waste her time dreaming of becoming a dancer.”
Disappointed, Melanie and her parents returned home. Tears rolled down Melanie’s face. Her dreams were broken within a matter of minutes. Without confidence, Melanie never attempted to dance again. She completed her studies and went on to become a teacher in school.Life was good and she kept herself busy with family and work. However, whenever she happened to pass the school’s ballet room, memories of childhood dreams danced before her eyes.
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One day, the ballet teacher in her school was late.
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“What a performance, Melanie! You are a true ballerina!” said the ballet teacher entering the classroom.
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9 . Joshua Countryman, the Henry Sibley High School choir director, was invited by his school to make a video to cheer up sheltered-at-home students this spring. After asking the teachers in his school to record themselves singing Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” Countryman turned the voices and videos into a virtual choir posted on YouTube.
Then he let his school choirs go virtual, too: not with just one song but with all 13 songs they had been practising for their spring performance. In the end, he created a special concert. “I don’t like to lose,” said Countryman. “To give up on a concert experience, to me, that felt like a loss. It was important that we could get a win.”
During the coronavirus pandemic (冠状病毒流行病), virtual choirs have been popping up all over Minnesota. Singers sing at home, with their voices and faces all edited together and shown in online videos. Colleges have made vitual choirchoir videos. Children’s Theatre made one of “Tomorrow” from the musical “Annie”, its postponed (推迟的) spring show.
“It was stressful at first. I overthought a lot of things,” said choir student Tamit Weldeyesus. “I probably had to record the first song 20 or 25 times, and I kept telling myself that this had to be perfect because if it was not, everyone could hear my mistake. It was a lot easier than I had expected.”
After spending half the spring conducting online classes and organizing the virtual choir concert, Countryman said, “The virtual choir creates an excellent opportunity to really make assessments (评价) for each student. Even if we go back to school every day, the virtual component (组成部分) is going to have to be important at least in my class because of that huge risk of increased virus transmission (病毒传播) in the choir.”
1. What did Countryman do for the high school where he works?| A．He composed a new song. | B．He made a video for the teachers. |
| C．He created a virtual choir concert. | D．He helped his students win a competition. |
| A．Musicians and colleges worked together to cheer up people. |
| B．Children’s Theatre put on the musical “Annie” online. |
| C．A new type of virtual music came into being. |
| D．Virtual choirs became statewide popular. |
| A．She is very humorous. | B．She tried to achieve perfection. |
| C．She knows herself very well. | D．She paid little attention to her mistakes. |
| A．It was a valuable teaching tool. | B．It sometimes wasted a lot of time. |
| C．It required great organizational abilities. | D．It was useful mainly during the pandemic. |
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