Passage 1

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 basket—maker has the skill of weaving and interweaving his materials to create colorful patterns, and an expert carpenter (木匠) has the skill of joining together different shapes and sizes of wood to make a beautiful piece of furniture. These skills may be referred to as “workmanship” (技艺). Similarly, in music a composer organizes his melodies (旋律) and rhythms and combines sounds to create harmony. A composer may be capable of thinking up very good, original tunes, yet if tunes are poorly organized, that is, if the workmanship is poor, 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.

31、A piece of original music _______.

我付了同等金额的美元。(equivalent)

应该由你决定是否实施这一计划。(up to)

我和他合作这个工程。(associate)

我们公司并非总是高额盈利。(profit)

她说出了种种理由，但没有一条令人信服。(convincing)

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(71)[The Internet is a powerful and cost-effective tool for conducting market research regarding consumer behavior, identifying new markets, and testing consumer interest in new products.] Although telephone or shopping mall surveys(调查) will continue, interest in interactive Internet research methods is on the rise. (72)[Online market research utilizing the Internet is frequently more efficient, faster, and cheaper, and you have the ability to get a more geographically diverse(不同的) audience than those found in offline surveys.] Furthermore, the size of a market research sample is the key determinant of research design. (73)[The larger the sample size, the larger the accuracy and the predictive capabilities of the results.] On the Web, one can conduct a very large research study much cheaper than with other methods (20 percent to 80 percent less). For example, (74)[telephone surveys can cost as much as $50 dollars per respondent.] This may be too expensive for a small company that needs several hundred respondents. An online survey will cost a fraction of this.

Internet-based market research is often done in an interactive manner by allowing personal contacts with customers, and it provides marketing organizations with greater ability to understand the customer, market, and the competition. For example, it can identify early shifts in products and customer trends, enabling marketers to identify products and marketing opportunities and to develop those products that customers really want to buy. (75)[It also tells management when a product or a service is no longer popular.]

telecommunications

potential sales

legal counsel

checkout process