高中英語語法填空:短文題型能力練習(xí) Test 3

高中英語語法填空:短文題型能力練習(xí) Test 3

A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it 　61　 it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent 　62　 them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous（努力的） a training to become a performer as a 　63　 (medicine) student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while 　64　 (draw) the bow to and fro（來回地） with the right arm — two entirely different movements.

Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note 　65　 (perfect) in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, 　66　 (wait) for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: the hammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion（叩診，振動）, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.

This problem of getting clear texture is one 　67　 confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and 　68　 it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sounds with fanatical（狂熱的） but selfless authority.

Technique is of no use 　69　 it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works 　70　 (write) in any century.