浙江大学外国语言文化与国际交流学院《251二外英语》历年考研真题及详解.pdf

2003年浙江大学221二外英语历年考研真题及详解 考试科目：二外英语 编号：221 注意：答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上均无效。 Part IReading Comprehe
ion (40%) Directio
: There are four passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questio
or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the A
wer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage 1 Whereas George Ge
hwin worked in the glare of critical and commercial success, Charles Ives worked in obscurity. Though Ives created the bulk of his output before Ge
hwin appeared on the scene, his music was almost completely neglected until he was “rediscovered” in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He earned his livelihood, for most of his adult life, in the i
urance business and created some of the most striking examples of American music in his spare time. Ives’s composing was restricted to weekends, holidays, vacatio
, and long evenings, Ives himself was quite philosophic about this and never co
idered his business career a handicap to artistic production. On the contrary, he regarded his music and the business in which he earned his livelihood as complementary activities. His raw material for all of his work was the ordinary musical life of a small New England town. In evolving his highly individualistic musical language, Ives used popular dance hall tunes, fragments of hym
and patriotic anthems, brass band marches, country dances, and songs which he integrated into works of enormous complexity. But Ives’s music was hardly popular with the broad public at the time it was written. The composer found it all but impossible to get his music performed. For example, Ives’s Second Symphony, which be worked on between 1897 and 1902, received its fi
t performance in 1951 when it was played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, under Leonard Ber
tein. His Third Symphony, completed in 1911, was fi
t performed in 1945, the Fourth Symphony, written bet