[新东方英语]01 The Language of Music

光速神影 · 发表于 2005-10-7 19:41

配合我校"魅力英语课堂",特发新东方英语给大家,希望大家有用!
<H1 >01 The Language of Music <o:p></o:p></H1>
 A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different movements. <o:p></o:p>
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Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared（free of ） this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear. <o:p></o:p>
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This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how its should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority. （狂热fanatical）<o:p></o:p>
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Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century. <o:p></o:p>
Tone (音程) <o:p></o:p>
Note （音符）<o:p></o:p>
Tune (调)<o:p></o:p>
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<H1 >02 Schooling and Education <o:p></o:p></H1>
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It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. <o:p></o:p>
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Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how low is known(noun.here)of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life. （there exists difficulties in listening comprehension here is because this pattern is not familiar to me yet）<o:p></o:p>
<v:shapetype><v:formulas><v:f eqn="val #2"></v:f><v:f eqn="val #3"></v:f><v:f eqn="val #4"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connectlocs="0,0;21600,21600;0,21600" o:connecttype="custom" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f" arrowok="t"></v:path><v:handles><v:h polar="@0,@1" position="@2,#0"></v:h><v:h polar="@0,@1" position="@2,#1"></v:h></v:handles></v:shapetype><v:shape><v:path o:connectlocs="14120,0;20011,8214;0,16345"></v:path></v:shape>Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.<o:p></o:p>
Open-minded (广泛的) rever (respect)<o:p></o:p>
All-inclusive (无所不包的)<o:p></o:p>
2005-03-22<o:p></o:p>
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网络人生 · 发表于 2005-10-7 19:43

什么东东，看不懂！偶四级等到大五才过！

光速神影 · 发表于 2005-10-7 19:52

你没参加和不知道那个"魅力英语课堂"吧?
是政法系的一位曾经是新东方的老师讲课的四级英语课堂~~!!

网络人生 · 发表于 2005-10-7 19:56

呵呵！知道，不去！浪费钱，上英语课已经很浪费生命了！再这样下去就不用活了！

光速神影 · 发表于 2005-10-7 20:11

不同的拉~
他那个课堂是很有趣的,你不知道那新东方英语的厉害吧?在广州那边很多人都去学的,基本上很多人都过了~
 现在学英语主要是大家没兴趣和信心罢了,新东方就是为同学建立信心和兴趣!

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