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A.modified

B.increased

C.personalized

D.browsed

E.distributed

F.released

Material culture refers to the touchable, material "things"--physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used--that a culture produces. Examining a culture's tools and technology can tell us about the group's history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of "things" in it, of course, are musical instruments. 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 for 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 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 in the symphony orchestra.

Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-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 stimulate people to create new and different songs. 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 a whole.

One more important part of music's material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media--radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette recorder, 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 nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations, they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.

Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because ______.

A．it helps produce new cultural tools and technol0g~,

B．it can reflect' the development of the nation

C．it helps understand the nation's past and present

D．it can demonstrate the nation's civilization

Like all animal species, plant species must spread their offspring to suitable

areas where they can grow and pass on their parent's genes.

Young animals generally spread by 【M1】______

walking or flying. Because plants don't have that ability,

they may somehow hitchhike. 【M2】______

Some plant seeds scatter by blowing in the wind or floating on water. Many other plant

species, though, trick an animal into carrying their seeds. How do they do? They enclose

them within a tasty fruit and advertise the fruit's ripeness by its color or smell. The hungry

animal collects and swallows the fruit, walks or flies off, but later spits out the seeds【M3】______

somewhere far from its parent tree.

Seeds can thereby be carried thousands of miles. It may 【M4】______

surprise you to learn that plant seeds can resist digestion. In fact, some seeds actually

require passage through an animal's body before they can grow. Wild strawberries offer a

good example of hitchhiking tactic.

When strawberry seeds are still young and not yet 【M5】______

ready to be planted, the surrounding fruit is green,

sour, and hard. When the seeds final 【M6】______

mature, the berries mm red, sweet, and tender. The change in the berries' color serves as a

signal to birds which then eat the strawberries, fly off, and eventually spit out the seeds.

Naturally, strawberry plants doesn't set out with

a conscious intent of attracting birds only 【M7】______

when their seeds were ready to be dispersed away.

Nor did birds set out with the intent of 【M8】______

planting strawberries. Rather, strawberry plants evolved through natural selection. The

sweeter and reder the final strawberry,

the more birds spread its ripe seeds; the greener and 【M9】______

more sour the young strawberry,

the birds destroyed the seeds by eating berries before the 【M10】______

seeds were ready.

【M1】

Women should be taught all sorts of breeding suitable both to their genius and quality. And in particular, music and dancing; which it would be cruelty to bar the sex of, because they are their darlings. But besides this, they should be taught languages, as particularly French and Italian; and I would venture the injury of giving a woman more tongues than one. They should, as a particular study, be taught all the graces of speech, and all the necessary air of conversation; which our common education is so defective in, that I need not expose it. They should be brought to read books, and especially history; and so to read as to make them understand the world, and be able to know and judge of things when they hear of them. To such whose genius would lead them to it, I would deny no sort of learning; but the chief thing, in general, is to cultivate the understandings of the sex, that they may be capable of all sorts of conversation; that their parts and judgments being improved, they may be as profitable in their conversation as they are pleasant.

Accountancy is suitable for outsourcing because accountants

A．do similar work in different companies.

B．are an essential part of any business.

C．are paid high salaries.

A．able

B．right

C．possible

D．understood