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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 fun, but it’s not chosen firstly for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all.

Music tells us who we are. Music shows people’s thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Just as Mozart’s music represents a lifestyle, rock music also represents a lifestyle.

Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music studies the emotive(情感的) meanings. We need every possible way to discover and respond(回應(yīng)) 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 the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas 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 the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be humans. Music does.

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

Title: Music Education is of great 【1】

Outline	Detailed information
Opinions	Shortsighted opinion: Music is a way of fun, not the first 【2】 for education. Truth: Music 【3】 is important for all.
Reasons	Telling who we are	Music not only shows the social environment it came from but also expresses people’s 【4】 and values.
	【5】 the world	Music makes people be 【6】 to know the world in a different way. Music studies the emotive 【7】.
	Communicating with each other	We 【8】 music to express our feelings, discoveries, ideas and hopes. Music, 【9】 from science, tells us what it means to be humans.
Conclusion	Music education is 【10】 important and necessary.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】importance

【2】choice

【3】education

【4】thinking

【5】Knowing

【6】able

【7】meanings

【8】use

【9】different

【10】both

【解析】

短文大意：本文從多個方面說明了音樂教育對人的重要意義：音樂不僅表現(xiàn)了音樂產(chǎn)生的社會環(huán)境，而且表達了人們的認識和價值觀；音樂為人們提供了一種以不同的方式認識世界的能力；音樂是思想的一種形式，是我們?nèi)祟愊嗷ァ敖徽劇钡囊环N方式。所以，音樂教育是重要和必要的。

【1】題意：題目：音樂教育很重要。

形容詞great修飾名詞，根據(jù)主題句“In fact, music education is necessary and important for all”可知音樂教育對所有人都是必要和重要的，故答案為importance。

【2】題意：音樂是一種娛樂方式，不是教育的首選。

first首要的，形容詞修飾名詞；根據(jù)第一段“It is often considered only as fun, but it’s not chosen firstly for education. This opinion is shortsighted它通常只被認為是有趣的，但不是首選的教育。這種觀點是短視的”故答案為choice。

【3】題意：音樂教育對所有人都很重要。

根據(jù)第一段末尾“In fact, music education is necessary and important for all事實上，音樂教育對所有人都是必要和重要的”故答案為education。

【4】題意：音樂不僅表現(xiàn)了音樂產(chǎn)生的社會環(huán)境，而且表達了人們的思想和價值觀。

根據(jù)第二段“Music shows people’s thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from音樂反映了人們的思想和價值觀，也反映了音樂產(chǎn)生的社會環(huán)境”故答案為thinking。

【5】題意：了解世界。

根據(jù)“Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. 音樂為人們提供了一種以不同的方式認識世界的能力”，聯(lián)系上一欄Telling who we are故答案為Knowing。

【6】題意：音樂使人們能夠以不同的方式了解世界。

本句缺表語形容詞，根據(jù)“Music provides a kind of ability for people to know the world in a different way. 音樂為人們提供了一種以不同的方式認識世界的能力”故答案為able。

【7】題意：音樂研究情感意義。

根據(jù)“Music studies the emotive meanings音樂研究情感意義”故答案為meanings。

【8】題意：我們用音樂來表達我們的感覺、發(fā)現(xiàn)、想法和希望。

本句缺謂語動詞，根據(jù)“Through the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas and our hopes so that they can be shared with others通過這種語言，我們表達我們的感受，我們的發(fā)現(xiàn)，我們的想法和我們的希望，以便與他人分享”可知我們運用音樂語言來表達我們的感覺、發(fā)現(xiàn)、想法和希望，故答案為use。

【9】題意：音樂不同于科學(xué)，它告訴我們作為人類意味著什么。

different from不同于，根據(jù)“Science does not tell us what it means to be humans. Music does科學(xué)并沒有告訴我們成為人類意味著什么。音樂可以”可知二者不一樣，故答案為different。

【10】題意：音樂教育是重要和必要的。

both用于兩者都，根據(jù)“important and necessary”可知是both…and結(jié)構(gòu)，故答案為both。