上海交通大学英语讲义Exercise Six听力原文及答案.docxVIP

Exercise SixSection 1. Compound DictationYo-Yo Ma is known for his blending of musical categories, and perhaps even inventing a few. He recently completed the tour playing music from Italy,?Azarbaijan, Georgia, Austria and Armenia. The range of his musical interest is echoed in his belief in crossing borders, boundaries and even identity. Here is Yo-Yo Ma with his essay for This I Believe.?I believe in the infinite variety of human expression.?I grew up in three cultures: I was born in Paris, my parents were from China and I was brought up mostly in America. When I was young, this was very (1) confusing: everyone said that their culture was best, but I knew?they couldn’t all be right.?I felt that there was an expectation that I would choose to be Chinese or French or American. For many years I (2) bounced among the three, trying on each but never being wholly comfortable. I hoped I wouldn’t have to choose, but I didn’t know what that meant and how exactly to “not choose.”?However, the process of trying on each culture taught me something. As I struggled to belong, I came to understand what made each one (3) unique. At that point, I realized that I didn’t need to choose one culture to the (4) exclusion of another, but instead I could choose from all three.?The values I selected would?become part of who I was, but no one culture needed to win. I could honor the cultural depth and (5) longevity of my Chinese heritage, while feeling just as passionate about the deep artistic traditions of the French and the American (6) commitment to opportunity and the future.?So, rather than settling on any one of the cultures in which I grew up, I now choose to explore many more cultures and find elements to love in each. Every day I make an effort to go toward what I don’t understand. This (7) wandering leads to the accidental learning that continually shapes my life.?As I work in music today, I try to (8) implement this idea — that the music I play, like me, doesn’t belong to only