Passage 2

Music which is original is individual and personal. That is to say, it can be identified as belonging to a particular composer. It has particular qualities, or a style, which are not copied from another. If you can recognize the style of a composer, you will probably be able to tell that a certain composition belongs to him or her even though you have never heard it before. A composer organizes his melodies (旋律) and rhythms and combines sounds to create harmony. He may be capable of thinking up very good, original tunes, yet if tunes are poorly organized, the final result will not be to standard.

Good music expresses feelings in a way that is suitable to those feelings. There may be joy, sorrow, fear, love, anger, or whatever. Bad music, on the other hand, may confuse unrelated feelings, it may not express any important feeling at all, or it may exaggerate some feelings and make them vulgar, that is, cheap and ugly.

Good music will stand the test of time. It will not go out of fashion but will continue to be enjoyed and respected long after it is first introduced. It will gain a kind of permanent status while bad music will disappear and be forgotten quickly. In pop music, where the general rule seems to be “the newer the better”, the test of time is the hardest test of all to pass.

34、A piece of original music _________.

我们怎样才能防止这种疾病蔓延?(prevent ... from, disease)

供水条件的改善会给健康带来巨大的影响。(water supply, have an effect on)

由于天气原因，航班已经推迟了一个小时了。(due to, delay)

我们必须尽最大可能地利用我们已有的资源。(make use of, resources)

阅读下面的短文，然后把划线的句子翻译成汉语。

Making the transition to e-business can be daunting. (71) [There is so much to do, so many questions to answer, so many possibilities to explore.] How do you know where to start?

(72) [When you begin planning an e-business, the most important thing to remember is that you shouldn’t try to do everything at once.] Biting off more than you and your team can effectively handle can be as big a problem as doing nothing. Focus your initial ebusiness efforts on those areas that can most immediately gain from the investment. (73) [This lets you pick a targeted starting point, with clear goals and boundaries, so you can build the foundation from which other e-business initiatives will flow.]

Intel took this advice to heart when it began planning the Intel e-business Web site. Rather than attempting to remake the entire Intel business infrastructure — a truly daunting task for a global corporation with over 65,000 employees — the company focused on its direct customers, including OEMs and distributors. (74) [The idea was to focus on customers who already had a relationship through Intel field sales and customer support, and find ways to improve that relationship through the Internet.]

(75) [“We picked one thing we could build very quickly and deploy to our customers,” says Sandra Morris, director of Intel’s Internet Marketing & e-Commerce.]

工业革命改变了整个英国的社会结构。(modify, structure)

global market

supply chains

information network

human resources