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Everybody likes music. But do you know that music is different from songs? Songs express feelings with lyrics, but music with tones. Unlike songs, music tones have no specific meanings.
Different people may get different things from the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music in their daily life because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music. Some love classical music and others like pop music. Most young people like pop music.
Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 1960s.
The best-known early kind of pop music was “rock and roll”. Pop music has taken the place of local music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for “jazz” music to become much smaller than that in the 1950s and earlier. And it now becomes the most popular one. Much pop music is without artistic value, but the work of some pop singers like Bob Dylan, the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. Today people still have great interest in pop music. Its concerts and festivals are held all over the world.
The _1.___between music and songs | Songs can express feelings with lyrics. Music tones have no__2.___meanings． |
The reason for loving music | People can get __3.____from music. |
Details for pop music | “Rock and roll” was the famous early kind of pop music. Pop music now becomes more popular than “jazz” music. Much pop music has no _4.__of art, but some pop singers and groups are excellent. Many musicians ___5.___ concerts all over the world |
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1.________________________________________ （把你的忧虑留给自己）can make them worse.
2.I started to pull myself slowly _____________________________ (在黑暗中).
3.I want to buy some presents ______________________ （不同于）Amy’s.
4.Watching too muchTV____________________________（开始影响她的眼睛）.
5.Bears never attack people ____________________________(除非它们处于危险中).
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从方框中选出恰当词或词组并用其正确形式填空
work to high standards; look good on sb; would rather; be worth; name; have a gift for; vote for; out of control; divide into; pay attention to |
1.He doesn’t like going shopping. He __________________ listen to music at home instead.
2.It’s said that the new building _________________________ after his name.
3.He is consided as our example because he _____________________________ .
4.Our class ______always ___________________ several teams to work in groups.
5.This book ____________________ reading. We can get much knowledge feom it.
6.She likes black, but as a little girl, pink ______________________ her than black.
7.The students went on talking noisily without ________________________ their teacher’s arrival.
8.The small house fire went ________________, the owner had to call the police.
9.I decided _____________________ Jack as our new monitor.
10.All my teachers and classmates think I __________________________ painting.
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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's pharmacologist Tu Youyou received her 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine here on Thursday.
"The discovery of Artemisinin（青蒿素） has led to d__1.___of a new drug that has s__2.__ the lives of millions of people, halving the mortality rate of malaria during the past 15 years," said Professor Hans Forssberg, member of the Nobel Committee(委员会) for Physiology or Medicine.
Together with her team, Tu m_3.____to extract（提取）, through trial（实验） and error（错误）, a substance from Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, that proved effective in reducing mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria.
Tu received half of this year's medicine p__4.__ of 4 million SEK (about 460,000 U.S. dollars), and the other half are equally __5.__by William Campbell and Satoshi Omura, who jointly discovered a novel therapy against infections(感染) caused by roundworm parasites（蛔虫寄生虫）.
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1.John’s leg was badly hurt. He had no _________(选择) but to stay at home
2.Most students think they are ____________(强迫) to do much homework.
3.If you go to Hongkong Disneyland, you may watch the _______________ （游行）of Disney Characters.
4.Chinese ________________(政府) has taken action to improve our life.
5.The hill is ___________ (覆盖) with green trees.
Language is always changing and developing. This isn’t a bad thing. If English hadn’t changed for a long time, we won’t have words to describe telephones, washing machines, computers or some other new things.
Language changes for several reasons. First, it changes because the needs of its speaker change. New technologies, new products, and new experiences need new words to express them clearly. Another reason for change is that different people have different language experiences. People use different sets of words and expressions, because they have different ages, jobs, education levels(水平) and so on.
How does language develop then? On the one hand, many of the languages changes begin with young people. When young people communicate with others of their own age, their language grows in grammar, words and expressions that are different from the older people’s. Some have a short lifetime but others can influence the language for long. On the other hand, we get new words in many different ways. We borrow them from other languages, we create them by making words shorter or combining(组合) words and we make them out of proper names.
Languages that don’t change over time are considered dead languages. The fact that English changes so much shows that it is alive and well.
1.What does the writer think of the change and development of language? He thinks it is .
A. not a bad thing B. a terrible thing
C. a bad thing D. an uncomfortable thing
2.Why do people use different sets of words and expressions according to the passage?
Because their and education levels are different.
A. ages, jobs B. jobs, height
C. weight, ages D. weight, height
3.How many reasons for language change are mentioned in this passage?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
4.Which of the following is NOT the way for young people to help develop language according to the passage?
A. They do it when they communicate with others of their own age.
B. They change words on their own.
C. They create them by making words shorter or combining words.
D. They make them out of proper names.
5.What is considered a dead language according to the passage?
The one that over time is considered a dead language.
A. always changes B. often improves
C. is spoken D. never changes
