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Classical music deals with adult emotions and ideas.______, you can still love aspects of it as a kid. If you continue to be attracted to what you have heard, your understanding will only________ as the years pass by. You don’t need to be ________ trained, or incredibly smart, to “get it.”

As a boy growing up in New York City in the 1950s, I first heard the overture(序曲) to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman as the ________ music for a science-fiction television show called Captain Video. It was absolutely exciting. When I first ____the opera many years later, that childhood memory of the music was still somewhere in the ________ reaches of my mind. Music can be written to bring a(n) ________ sound, mood or scene into mind, yet can be heard differently in different contexts. Wagner’s overture gets our attention with a heroic-sounding ________ from the horns and then a description of a stormy sea. As a kid, I ________ knew the hero was Captain Video. When I grew up, I came to understand that the very first notes were ________ to represent the scream of a ghost seeking redemption(救赎). The notes were the same, but I certainly was not, and yet there was ________ in revisiting something from my childhood with the _______ of an adult’s knowledge.

But does it still happen today? That question was ________ last summer when my two great nephews, ten-year-old twins, finished playing with Legos. One of them ________singing the Magic Flute from Mozart. The other joined in, singing in innocent ________ They kept going, but the words were_______ “What’s that?” I asked. The answer was about a famous cartoon: “Captain Underpants(内裤超人)!”

A time will come when they hear a performance of the Magic Flute and the weak memories of their youth will still be ________ to the classical music they heard from the cartoon, even though the original ________ of the music had nothing to do with it. Still, two boys born in 2010 ________ knew that a composition from Mozart was and ________ to be classical. No one is teaching them “how to love classical music.”

1.A.Besides B.However C.Instead D.Therefore

2.A.increase B.recover C.struggle D.fade

3.A.gradually B.firmly C.originally D.classically

4.A.theme B.rock C.festival D.folk

5.A.ruined B.conducted C.balanced D.opened

6.A.closest B.farthest C.highest D.lowest

7.A.specific B.disgusting C.accurate D.romantic

8.A.word B.figure C.voice D.melody

9.A.hardly B.mostly C.only D.even

10.A.said B.due C.advised D.meant

11.A.loss B.evidence C.comfort D.strength

12.A.example B.benefit C.need D.burden

13.A.raised B.answered C.heard D.predicted

14.A.imagined B.avoided C.began D.admitted

15.A.fun B.sorrow C.anger D.regret

16.A.gone B.long C.different D.similar

17.A.used B.committed C.connected D.contrary

18.A.version B.writer C.impression D.intention

19.A.possibly B.certainly C.particularly D.formally

20.A.continues B.tends C.occurs D.prefers

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