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1、2022年考博英语-北京科技大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Material culture refers to the touchable, material “things”physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, usedthat a culture produces. Examining a cultures tools and technology can tell us about the groups history and ways of life. Similarly, research into the m
2、aterial culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of “things” in it, of course, is musical instrument. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph (留声机) was invented, so we rely on instruments f
3、or important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of
4、 music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments on the symphony orchestra.Sheet music or printed music, too is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music
5、- cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America, printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they
6、 stimulate people to create new and different song. Besides, the ability to read music notation (乐谱) has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as whole.One more important part for musics material culture should be singled out: the influence of the e
7、lectronic mediaradio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the “information revolution,” a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nin
8、eteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations, they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.1. Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because（ ）.2. It can be learned from this passage that（ ）.3. According to the author, music notation i
9、s important because（ ）.4. It can be concluded from the passage that the introduction of electronic media into the world of music（ ）.5. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?问题1选项A.it helps produce new cultural tools and technologytB.it can reflect the development of the
10、 nationtC.it helps understand the nations past and presenttD.it can demonstrate the nations civilizationt问题2选项A.the existence of the symphony was attributed to the spread of Near Eastern and Chinese music.tB.Near Eastern music had an influence on the development of the instruments in the symphony or
11、chestratC.the development of the symphony shows the mutual influence of Eastern and Western musictD.the musical instruments in the symphony orchestra were developed on the basis of Near Eastern musict问题3选项A.it has a great effect on the music-culture as more and more people are able to read ittB.it t
12、ends to standardize folk songs when it is used by folk musicianstC.it is the printed version of standardized folk musictD.it encourages people to popularize printed versions of songst问题4选项A.has brought about an information revolutiontB.has speeded up the arrival of a new generation of computestC.has
13、 given rise to new forms of music culturetD.has led to the transformation of traditional musical instrumentst问题5选项A.Musical instruments developed through the years will sooner or later be replaced by computers.tB.Music cannot be passed on to future generation unless it is recorded.tC.Folk songs cann
14、ot be spread far unless they are printed on music sheets.tD.The development of music culture is highly dependent on its material aspect.【答案】第1题:C第2题:B第3题:A第4题:C第5题:D【解析】第1题:推理判断题。题干意思是“研究一个国家的物质文化是非常重要的，因为”。本文主要讲述的是通过音乐物质文化来探究音乐文化的发展；结合第一段第五句提到we rely on instruments for important information about m
15、usic-cultures in the remote past and their development.（我们依靠乐器来获取有关远古音乐文化及其发展的重要信息），可推断，通过研究一个国家物质文化可以探究这个国家的发展，即它的过去和现在，故C项“它有助于了解这个国家的过去和现在”正确。A项“它有助于产生新的文化工具和技术”和D项“它可以展示这个民族的文明”与文章无关；B项“它能反映国家的发展”太过于笼统。故该题选择C项正确。第2题:细节事实题。题干意思是“从这篇文章中可以了解到”。第一段最后一句话提到we can explore the movement of music from the
16、 Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments on the symphony orchestra.（我们可以追溯一千多年前近东音乐传入中国的历史，也可以勾勒出近东音乐的影响波及欧洲并导致交响乐的大部分乐器发展的大致轮廓），由此可知近东音乐对交响乐团乐器的发展产生了影响，故B项“近东音乐对交响乐团乐器的发展产生了影响”正确。A项“交响乐的存在是由于近东和中国
