研究生英语阅读教程 基础级第二版 第八课.doc

READING SELECTION A The Functions and Effects of Music By Samuel L. Becker Given name: sirname/ Christian name? Family name/ last name 注 黄色字体为课后单词 [1] You are well aware of (=realize) the fact that books, newspapers, magazines, motion pictures (film/ movie), radio, and television have been used for persuasive purposes: to sell beer and soap (~ watch), ideas and political candidates; to bring about (cause/ lead to) social change or to quell a revolution. Few of us think about music or recordings being used for these purposes, but they are and have been for a long time. [2] Every war has had its songs that whipped up (arouse) patriotic fervor or, in the case (example) of the Vietnam War, that encouraged protest against it. Some titles of records popular in this country during World War II suggest (show) the extent (degree) of the mobilization of the recording industry for the war effort: Remember Pearl Harbor, Have to Slap That Dirty Little Jap, Theres a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, Any Bonds Today, and Round and Round Hitlers Grave. [Bonds: [C] bond (between A and B) something that forms a connection between people or groups, such as a feeling of friendship or shared ideas and experiences: e.g. A bond of friendship had been forged between them. E.g. The agreement strengthened the bonds between the two countries. E.g. the special bond between mother and child] [3] The anti-Vietnam protests of the sixties and early seventies brought forth (=brought about) quite another kind of song. One was Big Muddy, about a group of soldiers blindly following their commanding officer into a river where many were drowned. Those (=those people) who sang and heard the song knew that the Big Muddy referred to Vietnam and the commander to President Lyndon Johnson, and their antiwar passions were intensified (=strengthened). Where Have All the Flowers Gone, The Times, They are A-Changin, and Give Peace a Chance were other popular songs whose recordings were widely played and us