2014职称英语-专业第27课综合B阅读押 题.docVIP

专业第27课 综合B阅读押题 机会只给有准备的人Opportunities are only for the prepared person. 孙老师特别提示： 押题变成了猜题，极不靠谱，请大家做好无原题或押不中的准备！！！ 阅读文章通常有二种性质： 1、 新出文章，通常比较规范，比较简单明了,容易得分。 2、 教材中文章一篇(所谓的押题)，通常有两种情况。 1.比较规范，比较简单明了,容易得分。 2.很不规范，很难！不易得分！但真的出现在卷子上时 往往会对提问及选项进改动，使其比较规范，比较简单明了,容易得分。 综合阅读押题 2014共4篇文章 第二十九篇 Ill?Be?Bach（综合B） 第十九篇 The Family（综合B） 第二十篇 Tales 传说 故事of the Terrible 可怕的Past（综合B）第二十六篇 Seeing the World Centuries世纪 Ago（综合）第三十篇 “Lucky” Lord Lucan伯爵 ----- Alive or Dead（综合B） 2014共4篇文章 Ill?Be?Bach （综合B）The Family（综合B） Tales 传说 故事of the Terrible 可怕的Past（综合B）Seeing the World Centuries世纪 Ago（综合） 第二十九篇 Ill?Be?Bach Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people cant tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Copes computer. It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers brains work like big databases. First, they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope, only the great composers are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical patterns from it. Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The software analyzed the data: it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They werent good, but it