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专题06 完形填空
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You come home and put on some music. What do you hear? Instruments and musical notes! You go to a museum to look at paintings. What do you see? Colorful artworks! People ____45____ music and paintings to be beautiful, colorful, and inspiring(启发灵感的). Nobody thinks of silence and emptiness as artistic works. ____46____, American musician John Cage thought differently. One of his most famous pieces is 4’33”. In 1952, it was completed and performed by a pianist at a concert hall. However, he didn’t play a single note. He just sat for four minutes and thirty-three seconds! But was it a ____47____ piece? Interestingly enough, it wasn’t! During the performance, there were a lot of sounds coming from the audience. People talked, coughed, and moved in their seats. Through 4’33”, John Cage showed that any sound could become music.
Where did he get the idea for this? It was from his artist friend Robert Rauschenberg. In 1951, Rauschenberg created White Paintings, a series of canvases(帆布) painted in white. They seem empty at first, but ____48____ show many images: the shadows(影子) of the viewers, the lights, and tiny spots on the canvases. Every act of looking at the paintings, various lights, and tiny spots become the painting! ____49____, viewers become part of the creative work.
These artists ____50____ the way people thought about art. They said, “Everything we do can be music. With white, you can see more.” It’s exciting to think about the next form of art that will make us surprised. Who knows? Maybe you could be the next musician or artist to do just that!
45.A.encourage B.force C.expect D.allow
46.A.Besides B.Therefore C.What’s more D.However
47.A.short B.cheerful C.silent D.special
48.A.especially B.actually C.carefully D.hardly
49.A.In addition B.By the way C.For example D.In this way
50.A.challenged B.welcomed C.prevented D.showed
【答案】45.C 46.D 47.C 48.B 49.D 50.A
【导语】本文讲述了大部分人认为音乐和绘画是美丽的,丰富多彩的,启发灵感的,而音乐家约翰·凯奇的看