When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students. ks5u
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well ad the social environment it came influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society. ks5u
Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all. ks5u
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. ks5u
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love. ks5u
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize. ks5u
68. According to Paragraph 1, students ks5u
A. regard music as a way of entertainment ks5u
B. disagree with their parents on education ks5u
C. view music as an overlooked subject ks5u
D. prefer the arts to science ks5u]
69. In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to ks5u
A. compare it with rock music ks5u
B. show music identifies a society ks5u
C. introduce American musical traditions ks5u
D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles ks5u
70. According to the passage, the arts and science . ks5u
A. approach the world from different angles ks5u
B. explore different phenomena of the world ks5u
C express people’s feelings in different ways ks5u
D. explain what it means to be human differently
71. What is the main idea of the passage? ks5u
A. Music education deserves more attention. ks5u
B. Music should be of top education priority. ks5u
C. Music is an effective communication tool. ks5u
D. Music education makes students more imaginative. ks5u
