1 . Starting a band across multiple time zones proved to be tricky. Shaky Wi-Fi and other technical difficulties meant they were often out of sync. And being even half a second off from one another wrecked their sound. To fix this, they created a sort of musical assembly line. Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul wrote and recorded a basic track, then e-mailed it to Manchester Paul.
What does “this” refer to in paragraph three?
| A．The inaccessibility of Wi-Fi. |
| B．The existence of technical barriers. |
| C．Their being in different time zones. |
| D．Their lack of experience. |
A. Beethoven thought about giving up, but in the end he continued to write music.
B. In his twenties, he had been very famous for his skills on the piano, but then he began to lose his hearing.
C. Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, who is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music.
D. He proceeded with the composition until his death in 1827, writing more than 130 musical works, including his Symphony No.9 in D minor.
E. Inspired by his struggles with deafness, the composer produced some amazing pieces, including nine symphonies, five piano pieces, and an opera!
| no matter what culture it comes from so that people can learn about different cultures as if they are neighbours that over 15, 000 people each year attend them as the traditional is mixed with the modern |
Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born Chinese American cellist known for his musical talent. In 1998, Ma founded Silkroad, an organisation that explores musical traditions in countries
The fundamental purpose of Silkroad is to bring people from across the globe together to play and listen to music. Instruments and styles are blended together to create music that is surprising, rich, and completely original,
The events that Silkroad organises are either performances, workshops, or mixed musical-artistic displays. It is so successful
乐队进行表演
Form a band and perform English music
5 . To see how well it could perform, the researchers asked the AI to complete a song. They fed the AI the opening to Guang Yin De Gu Shi, a real Chinese pop song, and then measured how closely it was able to match the song in terms of generating melodic segments（旋律片段）of similar length. For good measure, they also gave the same task to two other music-generating AIs which were less advanced than HAT. While HAT outperformed its computer rivals（对手）, the segments it created were disconnected from each other and clearly not human-made, though they were roughly the same length as those in the human-made tune.
“There is still a huge gap between the HAT-generated pieces and the real works,”conclude the authors, suggesting that a future study can attempt to create an AI that can “polish” the music it creates to close that gap.
What will the future study probably focus on?
| A．Designing an AI that perfects its own music. |
| B．Programming an AI that composes the latest pop hit. |
| C．Making a machine that recognizes musical qualities. |
| D．Developing a system that generates tunes automatically. |
6 . [2]Despite the celebrations, though, in the U. S.the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
[3]It's Jason Moran's job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
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What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to?
| A．Jazz becoming more accessible. |
| B．The production of jazz growing faster. |
| C．Jazz being less popular with the young. |
| D．The jazz audience becoming larger. |
