Unit 9 单元测试卷 （建议时间：100分钟，满分：95分） 第一部分 阅读（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） A 读下面的文章，然后回答文章后的问题。 Joey Alexander was born in Bali, Indonesia on June 25th, 2003. He is so talented in jazz that he is considered a jazz prodigy (神童). However, he says he doesn't like being called a prodigy. He just prefers to be thought of as himself or as a jazz musician. Joey is from Indonesia but lives in New York now. He started playing the piano when he was 6 years old. He says his success isn't from tons of lessons. It's from feeling the music in his heart. When Joey was 6 years old, his parents brought home a mini keyboard (键盘式电子乐嚣)．And to their surprise, Joey could play the melody（乐曲）of Well, You Needn't (a jazz music written by Thelonious Monk). His parents directly gave him piano lessons. In just a year or so, he could already play difficult jazz pieces. For him, jazz is really great. It gives him freedom at playing. That's why he prefers jazz to modern or classical music. In December, 2011, Joey was invited to play in front of the well-known jazz musician Herbie Hancock during his visit to Indonesia. Now at the age of 16, Joey has performed and collaborated（合作）with many top jazz musicians in Indonesia and also with some visiting jazz musicians from Europe. He has performed in many jazz festivals like Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival. 1. What makes Joey successful according to himself? _____ 2. What does Joey think of jazz? _____ 3. What does "their" in Paragraph 3 refer to? _____ 4. When was Joey invited to play in front of the well-known jazz musician Herbie Hancock? _____ 5. What's the passage mainly about? _____ B 读下面关于介绍音乐的文章，然后回答文章后的问题，正确的答案写T，错误的答案写F。 Music is different from songs. Songs express feelings with lyrics, but music with tones. Unlike songs, music tones in themselves have no specific meanings. Different people may get different things from the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music in their daily lives because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music. Some love classical music, and others take pleasure in pop music. Most young people like pop music. Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 1960s. The best-known early kind of pop music was "rock and roll". Pop music has taken the place of native music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for "jazz" music to become much smaller than in the 1950s and earlier and it has now begun to become the most popular. Much pop music is without artistic value, but the works of some pop singers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world. ( )6. The biggest difference between music and songs is meanings. ( )7. T ... ...
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