Hearinglivemusicisoneofthemost

更新 2022-09-03
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Hearing live music is one of the most pleasurable experiences available to human beings. The music sounds great, but it sounds greater when you get to watch the musicians as they create it. No matter what kind of music you love, try listening to it live.
This guide focuses on classical music, a tradition that originated before recordings, radio, and the Internet, back when all music was live music. In those days live human beings performed for other live human beings, with everybody together in the same room. When heard in this way, classical music can have a special excitement. Hearing classical music in a concert can leave you feeling refreshed and energized. It can be fun. It can be romantic. It can be spiritual.
Classical music concerts can seem like snobby (高傲的) affairs full of foreign terms and unusual behavior. It can be hard to understand what’s going on. It can be hard to know how to act. But don’t worry. Concerts are no stranger than any other amusement, and the rules of behavior are much simpler and easier to understand than the stock market, football, or system software upgrades.
If you haven’t been to a live concert before, or if you’ve been confused by concerts, this guide will explain, so you can relax and enjoy the music.
From Paragraph 1, we can see that the author encourages us _______.

A．to watch the musicians to compose music

B．to experience the spirit of classical music

C．to attend live concerts and enjoy live music

D．to obtain pleasure from different kinds of music

Which of the following can replace the underlined word “originated” in Paragraph 2?

A．listened	B．started
C．performed	D．disappeared

The author considers that live classical music _______.

A．is full of foreign terms

B．is too difficult to understand

C．is stranger than other amusements

D．is exciting to both players and listeners

The passage is _____ which focuses on live classical music.

A．a review	B．a conclusion
C．a summary	D．an introduction

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A．is popular with the consumers
B．can pull all the consumers into the shops
C．can affect the consumers’ purchasing
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A．someone called Jones                                 B．common people
C．the Jones family                                        D．celebrities
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A．celebrities cheat consumers in advertisement
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A．a local newspaper                         B．a science report
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C．True beauty lies only in the heart not in appearance．
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C．the reason why the author had to resign
D．that the author was once discovered drunk as a fish
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A．offer advice                                        B．tell a story
C．avoid nightmares                                 D．ask for help
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C．Bring pain to his family                       D．Giving up drinking
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B．Getting drunk once prevented T from attending a conference．
C．T will have nightmares when he stops drinking．
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