2022届高考英语二轮复习热点话题训练--热爱生活－欣赏艺术之美.docxVIP

热爱生活－欣赏艺术之美 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A [2021·昆明“三诊一模”]Id never heard of the yangqin — an 18th century Chinese stringed instrument — until this past Sunday, when I had the pleasure of hearing Eastman graduate and music performer Zhang Wenzhuo perform on it in a virtual concert. Wenzhuo, a Chinese native, began her training on the yangqin at age five. When she was only 13, Wenzhuo was awarded a scholarship to the Arts School of Hebei Province; the highly competitive program only accepted a single yangqin student every two years. After graduation, she placed first in nationwide competitions and was admitted into the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing, where she was awarded her bachelors in yangqin performance in 2005. She obtained her doctorate from Boston University in music education in 2015 and studied ethnomusicology at Eastman from 2017 to 2019. Wenzhuo has performed with countless orchestras and groups of musicians and won countless awards for her performances. Before Wenzhuo performed on her yangqin, she presented a brief historical background of the instruments origin, and discussed its continued usage up to the present day. Determined by musicologists to be based on the similarly－structured English hammered dulcimer(大扬琴), the yangqin was first used in Chinese folk music performance and operas. As time went on, performances began to be sponsored by the country, and yangqin performers were given a path to higher levels of social mobility. Wenzhuo performed four pieces, three tracing their origins to centuries old Chinese composers, and one from the modern era. Needless to say, Wenzhuos performances sounded fantastic. The yangqin is a unique and beautiful instrument and its sound, coupled with Wenzhuos musical ability, allowed the four greatly differing pieces to stand together as a wonderful introduction to the instrument. It was fascinating to learn about the yangqin and a joy to watch Wenzhuo perform on it. 1．What can we learn about Zhang Wenzhuo? A．She has