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1、Unit 5 MusicPeriod 2 Reading and Thinking练习.单词语境填空。1It is good for you to find a quiet place, listening to some c_(经典的) music2I have made up my mind to serve the people heart and s_(灵魂)3You should encourage your children to make use of the o_(机会) to join sports teams4The childrens p_(演出，表演) gave the

2、 elders a lot of pleasure last week5He is likely to build a s_(工作室) of his own with the help of his friends6I do hope that o_(普通的) people can live a rich and happy life7He has broken the world record, t_(因此) winning his first gold medal8The girl performing on the s_(舞台) has a gift for dance9The musi

3、cian along with his b_(乐队)members has given ten performances in the last three months10N_(现在) more and more people would rather not live in big cities.完成句子1我确信这是表演你最喜爱的音乐的一次好机会。Im sure it is_to perform your favorite music2我们餐馆提供既有能量又富含纤维的饭菜。Our restaurant serves foods both _fibre3困难在于他如何向其他科学家证明他的想法

4、。The difficulty was how he _other scientists4这个男孩很自豪，因为他救了这个女人的命而获得了政府的奖励。The boy was proud to _by the government for his saving the womans life5我仍记得第一次参观博物馆的情景。I still remember _for the first time.课文语法填空Can you imagine 1_(sing) together with hundreds of other people while you are alone at home? You

5、 can do this in a virtual choirAll you need is a video camera and an Internet 2_(connect)A virtual choir 3_(enable) people to add their voices 4_those of other individualsThe virtual choir was the idea of Eric Whitacre 5_ is an American composer and conductorHe began to study music in the university

6、 and got 6_masters degree in 1997After that, he accomplished many well received compositionsIn 2009, 7_(inspire) by a video he received from a girl singing one of his 8_(work), he created his first virtual choir, LuxAurumqueLater, his song What If was first put on a 9_(perform) on 23 July 2014 in th

7、e UKThe virtual choir is a wonderful way to sing with one voice and thus make the world a 10_(good) placeIV.阅读理解。AOur grandparents tell us stories of their years over and over againUntil finally we have heard them tell the stories so many times that we wonder why they keep on repeating these old tim

8、esUnconsciously(无意识地)，this is the way our minds work to pass history onThere was a time when writing, reading, books, radio, TV and electronics of today were not present at allFew things could be used to record and pass information on to the next generationPeople would only sit around the campfire o

9、r the kitchen table, sharing stories of the pastThis is called the “oral(口述的) tradition”Children listened endlessly to families sharing stories of their youthMemories are put in the minds of young people forever so they could later recall and tell them to their children and grandchildrenCan you reca

10、ll any of this? I canHow could life of the past be able to survive for centuries without this telling of stories and information to the listening ears of the youth?Just the other day, our Uncle Martin came to visit with his two kidsAs we sat around the kitchen table sharing stories and family rememb

11、rances, Uncle Martins laughter filled the roomHe recalled several times that he was lucky to have not been hit by the falling treesEach person in the room listened and enjoyed his details and humorWe all can continue to share stories with our children, telling of those good old daysChildren do liste

12、n and want to hear true, sincere, funny and scary tales dug up from the past and then they tell their friendsSo oral tradition goes on and on1According to the text, how did people pass on messages in the past?ABy using electronicsBBy telling stories orallyCBy recording them in booksDBy reading books

13、 to the next generation2What will happen if the stories are repeated many times?AThey can make the children feel boredBThey can make the childrens minds clearCThey can improve the childrens creativityDThey can give the children a deep impression(印象)3What will the children probably do after they list

14、en to the stories from the old?ADig up more stories in the pastBShare them with their friendsCWrite them down carefullyDTell them to their parents4What may be the authors attitude to oral tradition?AHe/She values itBHe/She is against itCHe/She thinks its outdatedDHe/She thinks its unreliableBGeneral

15、ly, the blues are often associated with unhappy thingsFor example, if you lose your job, you might want to listen to the bluesAlthough the blues often deal with unhappy personal things, the music itself goes far beyond selfpityThe blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, riddi

16、ng yourself of sadness, making you relaxed, and simply having funThe blues has deep roots in American history, particularly AfricanAmerican historyThe blues began in Southern plantations(大农场) in the 19th centuryIts inventors were slaves, exslaves and the children of slavesAfricanAmerican sharecroppe

17、rs(佃农) who sang as they worked in the cotton and vegetable fieldsThe blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazzBlues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still influence each other in many ways todayUnlike jazz, the blues didnt spread

18、 out quickly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and 1940sWhen the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music developed into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazzblues hybridsAbout ten years later, the blues gave birth to rhyt

19、hms(节奏) n blues and rock n rollNo single person invented the blues, but many people said they had discovered different styles of the bluesFor example, a bandleader, WCHandy insisted that the blues was first shown to him in 1903 by a street guitarist at a train station in Tutwiler, MississippiDuring

20、the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of important bluesmen who helped to shape the musicUnfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their gravesBut the music of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in the recordings of 1920s and 193

21、0s from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states5What can we know about the blues?AIt can be very loud musicBIt often tells sad personal storiesCIt can bring sad feelings to peopleDIt is mainly about overcoming hard luck6Whats the relationship between the blues and jazz?AThe

22、blues gave birth to jazzBThey have influenced each otherCThey usually have the same rhythmDJazz made the blues popular in the Mississippi Delta7What happened to the Delta blues after entering urban areas?AIt became less popular thenBIt developed into different stylesCIt created many different rhythm

23、sDIt was replaced by other regional musical styles8What is the passage mainly about?AThe history of the bluesBThe changes of the bluesCThe pioneers of the bluesDThe invention of the bluesV.读后续写阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。In the busy city of New York, such an amazing thing ever happened. On a cold

24、Friday night, a poor artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. The young violinist was a student at an Arts College named Joseph, who did so every day in order to earn his tuition fees. He planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna and had booked the flight the next morni

25、ng. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. Joseph was playing his last chapter when a middle aged man looking pretty excited slowed down his pace and put 50 dollars into the hat, for which Joseph was grateful. The next night, the young artist came to the gate of

26、the subway station as usual, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he began playing the violin. Before long, the young artist was surrounded with many passersby, who were a

27、ll attracted by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an unexpected thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim it as soon as possible.” It caused a great excitement and curiosity. They were dying to know what the unexpected thing could be. After abo

28、ut half an hour, a middle aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, “Yes, its you. You did come here. I knew that you are an honest man and would certainly come here.” The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr George Sang？”The

29、 man nodded.The violinist asked, “Did you lose something？”“Lottery. Its lottery，” replied the man. The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sangs name was seen. “Is it？” he asked. George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, and then he danced with Joseph.注意：1所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；3续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；4续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。Paragraph 1：The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an ordinary office clerk. Paragraph 2：This was the scene just now.