III.Cloze (30 points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mak your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
What is music? Music is sound arranged into pleasing or interesting 21 . It is part of every culture on Earth. People use music to 22 feeling and ideas. Music also serves to entertain and relax.
Music is a performing art. It 23 form such arts as painting and poetry, in which artists 24 works and then display or publish them. Musical composers need musicians to 25 and perform their works. 26 ,most musical performances are really co-operations between composers and performers.
Music also play a major role in other arts. Opera 27 singing and music with drama. Ballet and other forms of dancing need music to help the dancers 28 their steps. Motion pictures use music to help set the mood as well as introduce the actions or enhance its 29 on the audience.
Music is one of the 30 arts. People probably started to sing as soon as 31 developed. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical 32 .By about 10,000 B. C., hollow bones had been used by 33 people to make flutes. The first written music dates from about 2500 B.C.
There are two chief kinds of Western music, classical and popular, Symphonies, operas, and bullets are 34 music, It is generally harder to write and perform. Musicians who perform it need a lot of training. Popular music 35 country music, folk music, jazz, and rock music. It is easier to perform and understand.
21.A.models B.types C. styles D.patterns
22.A.express B.explore C. cover D.test
23.A.results B.develops C.differs D.separates
24.A.discover B.create C.imagine D.invent
25.A.adapt B.interpret C.follow D.complete
26.A.Thus B.However C.Besides D.And
27.A.joins B.associates C.connects D.combines
28.A.with B.for C.after D.upon
29.A. force B.effect C.influence D.impact
30.A.greatest B.easiest C.oldest D.best
31.A.agriculture B.society C.humanity D.language
32.A.performers B. events C.instruments D.notes
33.A.previous B.old C.early D.ancient
34.A.light B.background C.classical D.experimental
35.{A.accepts B.includes C.explains D.illustrates
V. Daily Conversation (15 points)
Directions: Pick out appropriate expressions from the eight choices below and complete the following dialogue by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
A.I’m very pleased to be here
B.Did you ever find each other
C.But it was a miracle
D.I remember you said you wanted to get a sweater
E.It could even be a disaster F.Actually, I’ve got the list ready
G.Did you get anything H.I don’t want to talk about it anymore
Mary: Well, Susan, how was your shopping trip with Nancy this afternoon?
Susan: Don’t ask. 56
Mary: What do you mean? Something went wrong?
Susan: Went wrong? 57 !Nancy thought I had said I would meet her at the department store at 2:30 when I really said 2:00. Then she thought we would meet at the main entrance in front when I really said at the east entrance on the Twelfth Street.
Mary: 58 ?
Susan:Yes! 59 !I had given up waiting and went inside the women’s clothing department.
So did she. Thus we met finally and it was 3:00 by then.
Mary:Did you get what you wanted? 60 .
Susan:A blouses,as a matter of fact. But by that time, all those on sale were gone. So I settled for a skirt.
