Music专题测试I. 单词拼写1. My students turned in a good g__________ at the English evening.2. Traditional Chinese decorative knot, also known as Chinese knot, is typical f__________ arts of China.3. If you spend less than you __________(赚钱), you won’t be in debt, obviously.4. With the skin gone, to what can the hair __________(依附) itself?5. If you__________(假装) to know what you don’t know, you’ll only make a fool of yourself.II. 用适当的介词或副词填空1. I’m surprised to hear that Am y and Jack have broken __________, because they seemed very happy when I last saw them.2. A big fire broke __________ last night and its cause is being looked into.3. When he got home he found his house broken __________.4. Our car broke __________ on the freeway.5. News reports say peace talks between the two countries have broken __________ with no agreement reached.III. 单句改错1. She earn a living by singing in a nightclub.__________________________________________________________________________________________2. Peter is my friend who can be relied to do what he promises.__________________________________________________________________________________________3. He dreams of become a famous violinist one day.__________________________________________________________________________________________4. When the boss came, she pretended to working hard.__________________________________________________________________________________________5. Gradually she learned to make a joke on all these hardships.__________________________________________________________________________________________IV. 完形填空Jerome Kern is often called the father of American musical theater. Kern is remembered for the hundreds of 1he wrote for musical plays and movies. Music historians say that Kern gave artistic2to American popular music for the first time. And they say he3the development of the first truly American theater music.Jerome Kern was born into a middle-class fam ily in New York City in 1885. Kern’s mother loved playing the piano. She began to teach Kern how to4it when he was very young.Kern was a quiet boy and not a top student. When he5high school, his father said he would have to work in thefamily’s stor e. His father thought his son could never make money6music in his life. But later he came to believe that Kern7do better in music than in business after all. So he let the boy go to Europe to study music, as almost all serious young8did at the time. By the 1920s, Kern was a(n)9young composer for Broadway musical comedies.Kern wanted to try10completely new. He thought a musical play should be a(n)11work of art, not just a collection of songs and dances. Kern wanted to write a truly American musical play, with real American characters and real situations.In 1927, he12the story he wanted. It was the book Show Boat13American writer Edna Ferber. Show Boat takes place in the 1880s on a passenger steamboat that14along the Mississippi River. The boat is called a show boat because singers and dancers entertain the15. The captain of the show boat has a daughter who is a singer on the boat. She falls in love with a man who earns his money by gambling with cards.The public and critics16it. Show Boat became the greatest work of American musical theater. Music critics said Kern’s17on musical theater was revolutionary(革命性的). It was Kern’s music18made the show a great success. His most famous song was written for Show Boat. It is called Ol’ Man River.Kern19in 1945 at the age of sixty. But Show Boat has been20thousands of times all over the world.1. A.songs B.plays C.stories D.books2. A.impression B.permission C.importance D.freedom3. A.ended B.led C.directed D.changed4. A.create B.play pose D.enjoy5. pleted B.joined C.began D.entered6. A.recording B.practicing C.writing D.learning7. A.must B.dare C.might D.need8. A.students B.musicians C.singers D.actors9. A.handsome B.successful C.energetic D.hard-working10. A.something B.anything C.nothing D.everything11. plex B.real C.active D.influential12. A.found B.realized C.understood D.missed13. A.with B.from C.by D.in14. A.travels B.covers C.works D.trades15. A.captains B.passengers C.businessmen D.audiences16. A.hated B.disapproved C.loved D.agreed17. A.profession B.effect C.talent D.progress18. A.which B.that C.who D.when19. A.took off B.passed away C.broke down D.set off20. A.repeated B.performed C.recorded D.adaptedV. 阅读理解Have you ever thought about why malls, restaurants, and even theaters have music? Well, to understand this, you simply look back on how you felt when you heard music in these places. Music is known to improve the mood of people. Often music helps us pay attention to what we are doing. Music helps patients feel good and helps them recover faster and better.Depression(沮丧) is a state of mind that most of us experience at some point of time. There are some periods in our life when everything seems difficult. It seems that everything is getting worse and we have no control over our life. Studies have shown that music can be an important mood lifter in such situations. Music also plays a great role in making us feel less nervous or worried. Anxiety(焦虑) can often cause loss of sleep and other illnesses.Music is often known as an international language. We may not know the language another person is speaking, but most of us respond to music in the same way. Music can often be the best way to connect with others.Music is one of the best ways to improve your mood, but this can depend largely on the kind of music you listen to. While happy music can certainly make you feel better, sad music can further lower your spirits. Listening to classical music can often make you feel more powerful, while soft music can be the perfect way to relax at the end of a long way. If you want to use music to change the way you are feeling, you need to understand the role of it, learn to recognize the kind of music that lifts your mood and helps you feel better. Once you realize the kind of music you can use, you can use it to change the way you feel. The right kind of music can be the perfect way to help you feel happier.1. The passage is mainly about __________.A. what meanings music hasB. how we control our moodsC. how music affects our moodsD. what kind of music we should listen to2. According to the passage, playing music in restaurants is to __________.A. welcome the customersB. make customers feel goodC. make customers danceD. make customers feel powerful3. From the passage, we can know that __________.A. most of us suffer depression all the timeB. most of us respond to music in different waysC. music can be a good way to connect with othersD. any kind of music will help us improve our moods4. According to the passage, which kind of music can relax ourselves from a long day’s work?A. Soft music.B. Classical music.C. Sad music.D. Rock music.Ⅵ. 七选五阅读Today it is common to see people who walk about with colored wires hanging from their ears wherever they go. Theymove about in their personal bubbles, sometimes unaware of what’s happening around them. 1.___ Outside life is shut out. So are you one of ＂them＂?For me, walking around in my own personal bubble is perfect. 2.___ What’s even better, wearing earphones seems to give a signal to people which says: ＂I’m not available for chatting at the moment!＂Suppose you’re at work and about to make an incredible breakthrough, but a colleague suddenly turns up. At this precise moment, the slightest disturbance would break your concentration. 3.___ Once again, those wires hanging from your ears would be sure to give that ＂Go away!＂signal.4.___ It’s probably part of the growing up stage when they just want to ignore their whole family. While their mothers give them lectures about why they should do their homework, they can just turn up the volume(声音) on their MP3 player, smile, and say ＂Yes, Mum.＂Problem solved.Pretty soon, not only will we have pretty colored wires hanging from our ears—but also our brains will be directly plugged into some new high-tech instrument. We’ll be in a virtual(虚拟) world, communicating with everyone else, or choosing not to, as we like. In this world, we will all be permanently plugged in. 5.___ And they are changing our social habits along the way.In the end, there is a thin line between using technology as a tool for making life better and being a slave to it! It’s so strange—suddenly, I don’t feel like wearing my earphones any more!A. Listening to music through earphones is the perfect way to ignore such interruptions.B. I also have wires hanging from my ears.C. They walk around in their own spaces, with their personal ＂digital noise reduction systems.＂D. I don’t have to deal with the noise from the environment.E. After all, I am listening to my favorite music and would rather not be disturbed.F. Our instruments are changing quickly.G. In the home situation, teenagers love these wires.参考答案I. 单词拼写1. performance2. folk3. earn4. attach5. pretendII. 用适当的介词或副词填空1. up2. out3. into4. down5. offIII. 单句改错1. earn → earns/earned2. relied后加on3. become → becoming4. working前加be5. on → of。
