浙江2011年1月高等教育音乐教育学自考试题

1.A Day's Wait一、Main points1）What made the boy think that he was going to die?2）Why did the boy keep tight control over himself throughout the day?Essential words and phrases1）shiver （v）因恐惧、寒冷等而颤抖，哆嗦2）miserable （a）悲惨的，可怜的3）prescribe （v）开（药方）4）covey（n）一小群，一队5）thermometer （n）温度计6）slack （a）懈怠的，无精打采的7）detach from 分开某物，对---漠然置之8）keep from 克制不做某事9）take it easy 放松，不要放在心上10）commence to 开始做某事11）live with 接受并忍受某事物12）gaze at凝视，注视以下词汇能够正确读出，知道其表意即可：1. purgative 泻药，通便的；2. influenza 流行性感冒；3. pneumonia 肺炎4. lightheaded眩晕的5. setter蹲伏猎狗二、Difficult points on text1）He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.2）It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been vanished with ice.3）Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting.三、TEXTSummary on the text：The story is about an incident that happens between a father and his son. The small boy’s misunderstanding ofthe difference in measuring temperature on a Fahrenheit and a Celsius Scale causes him to believe that he is dying of a high fever. He spends a day bravely waiting to die before his father discovers and corrects his mistake.A Day’s WaitHe came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.“What's the matter, Schatz?”“I've got a headache.”“You better go back to bed.”“No. I'm all right. ”“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I know he had a fever.“You go up to bed,”I said, “you're sick.”“I'm all right,”he said.When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature. “What is it?”I asked him.1. take one’s temperature 量体温“One hundred and two.”Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.2. write down/make a note of/put down 记下，写下3. various all kinds of动词：vary 名词variety“Do you want me to read to you?”“All right. If you want to,”said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.4. lie lay—lain lying （躺着）lie lied—lied lying （撒谎）lay laid—laid laying （放置）I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates but I could see he was not following what I was reading.“How do you feel, Schatz?”I asked him.“Just the same, so far,”he said.I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.5. at the foot of 在…脚下，在…尾部“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine. ”“I'd rather stay awake.”6. would rather 宁愿After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”“It doesn't bother me.”“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out for a while.Part I. The boy was sick, depressed and gave some unusual reactions to my care.It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, thecut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I fell twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.7. glassy 象玻璃一样的8. have sb/sth do 使某人/某物做某事have sth done 使…被做某事We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank. Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.Part II. I didn’t think too much about his reactions and went out hunting.At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.“You can't come in,”he said; “You mustn't get what I have.”I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.1. with + n +…表伴随He likes sleeping with his eyes open.He is standing there with his arms crossedI took his temperature.“Something like a hundred,”I said. It was one hundred and two and four-tenths.“It was a hundred and two,”he said.“Who said so?”“The doctor.”“Your temperature is all right,”I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”“I don't worry,”he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”2. keep from 使…不能“Don't think, “I said. “Just take it easy.”3. take it easy 放松“I'm taking it easy,”he said and looked straight ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.“Take this with water.”“Do you think it will do any good?”4. do good/harm to 对…有好处/坏处“Of course it will.”I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.5. commence to 开始做“About what time will it be before I die?”“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you?”“Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two.”“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”6. live with sb: live together with sblive with sth: endure sth“You poor Schatz,”I said. “Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight.”“Are you sure?”“Absolutely,”I said. “It's like miles and kilometres. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car.”“Oh,”he said.But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxedslowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.7. be of +n.= adj.四、ExerciseSome of these statements are true （T）, and some are false （F）, can you tell which are true and why the others are not?（T）1. The time of day was early in the morning at the beginning of the story.（F）2. The boy pretended to be listening attentively while his father was reading to him.（T）3. The boy preferred to stay awake because he thought there wouldn't be too much time left for him.（T）4. The father did not realize what the boy was really thinking about and went out hunting in the woods.（T）5. The author described the hunting scene for the reason that it diverts the reader's attention so that the boy's real thoughts will be a greater surprise when they are revealed.（T）6. The child kept tight control over himself throughout the day because he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death.（F）7. The boy refused to let anyone come into the room because he complained that they did not understand his terrible tension inside.（T）8. What led the boy to think that he was going to die was that he mistook the Fahrenheit scale for the Celsius one.（T）9. The father made an analogy between the difference of two thermometers and that of miles and kilometers.（F）10. The next day the boy cried easily at trifling matters. The reason for this is probably that as a spoilt boy, he often complained about unimportant things.Use each of the following terms in a sentence1.to bring down2.to keep from3.to prescribe4.would rather5.to flush6.to bother7.to be detached from8.to make9.something like10.to hold tight onto oneselfB. Read the text below. Use the word in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.The Death ClockThere was a section related to death during the first full cast （0）rehearsal on April 18. Director asked the actors to write an obituary （讣告）and invent the date of death, the way of death and who writes the obituary. After they finished writing it, they were asked to use the obituary and create a short performance. I was sitting aside, watching and observing all the 14 different （1）performances of death. And yet, I was impressed by the actor’s （2）various ways of dealing with death: sadness, humors, silence, narrative, surprising and （3）shocking .A few days later after the rehearsal, in a sharing. thought section of another weekday rehearsal, one of the casts said that she was so scary writing her own obituary and she kept asking herself: "Why am I writing this? What am I writing?" I understood this kind of death phobia （恐惧）.What we are unable to understand worries us, and this fears us. We fear because we are not familiar with it like the sun rising and setting. We are afraid because we are （4）unable to determine and control it like we drive the car. This is why death scares us--we know nothing about what happens before the（5）existence of our life and what happens after we die. What we know is: we are born, we grow, we die, and we must die.Death is one of the （6）close companions of all of us. Death has accompanied me since I was born. I first learned the word death, in Mandarin when I was in standard two, so Wang, （7）indicating the end of a life. When I started my newspaper reading habit, I was educated by the newspaper reports that we were born in the same way but we will die in various ways: murder, accident, illness, disaster, war, terrorism attack and many （8）unpredictable ways. The only similarity is: we are all certificated when we are born and when we die, and we are recognized by a certification of birth and death. We have to admit the reality of "Everything that has a beginning has an end', as the Oracle （先知）of The Matrix 3 （电影名）says.QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS & APPRECIATION1. In whose point of view is the story told?The boy’s father.2. What is the purpose of the author in writing about the doctor's visit?The doctor told the boy’s temperature which caused his misunderstanding.3. What conclusion can you draw from the hunting scene about the father's character and his influence upon his son?The father is very tough, very calm and positive which influences his son.4. What does the title of the story probably mean?The boy had thought he would die and he waited for a whole day for the coming of death.5. What is the theme of the story?The author depicted a little hero who is calm and tough in face of death though it’scaused by his misunderstanding.6. Hemingway often thought of courage as a person's ability to be calm and controlled in the face of death. What do you think of such a definition of courage?We agree with his point of view. （需要学生自己去发挥一些）7. Hemingway is noted for writing short, simple sentences. Look at the text closely and decide whether this is true of the language in this story.Except some long and complicated sentences, the language in this stories generally is simple and short, so it is a typical Hemingway style.8. The story is built around the misunderstanding between the father and his little son. Can you find some examples in which the father and his son are each thinking of different things in the conversation?（参见教材原文）SPEED ReadingAttitude is EverythingJerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied," Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You canchoose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, clan choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.""Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested."Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line= It's your choice how you live life."I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business; he left the back door open one morning and was held up （拦劫）at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe （保险柜）, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination （暗码锁）. The robbers panicked and shot him.Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma （外伤）center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “lf I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?”I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as therobbery took place."The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices_. I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.""Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.Jerry continued, "The paramedics （护理人员）were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He's a dead man.’I knew I needed to take action.""What did you do?" I asked."Well, there was a big, burly （魁伟的、结实的）nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if 1 was allergic （过敏的）to anything. “Yes,”I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply; I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘B ullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.Attitude, after all, is everythingDecide the answer that best completes the following statements according to the information provided in the text.1. Jerry was a motivator by nature, because of A[A] his positive attitude towards life[B] his good personality[C] his sense of humor[D] his tolerance with his employees2. According to Jerry, life is all about choices. By saying this, he meant that[A] every situation is a choice D[B] people choose how they react to situations[C] people choose how others will affect their mood[D] it's your choice how you live life3. The first thing that went through Jerry's mind when the robbery took placewas that C[A] he lay on the floor and remembered his famous choices[B] a restaurant manager should have never opened his back door[C] he should not have forgotten to lock the back door[D] he was shot because of his nervousness4. In the emergency room, Jerry was scared because B[A] he was at a loss as to what choice he should make: to live or to die[B] the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses told him he was dying[C] the doctors and nurses stopped operating on him[D] the doctors and nurses were operating as if he were dead5. The title of this passage is intended to convey the message that Ｃ[A] we always have two choices to make every morning[B] we have to make the choice of how to live fully every day[C] it is your attitude that leads you to the right choice of life[D] how you live life is the choice you have to embrace all the timeⅡ.Decide whether the following statements are true （T）or false （F）according to the information given in the text.（T ）1. Jerry always pointed out the positive side of life if someone came to him complaining.（T ）2. According to the narrator, Jerrywas a positive person all the time.（T ）3. When the nurse asked Jerry if he was allergic to anything, Jerry was still in a good mood and kept a sense of humor.（T ）4. Jerry survived not only because of the skills of his doctors, but also of his amazing attitude.（T ）5. Jerry's life philosophy is based on the belief that everything starts with the right attitude.。