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终于考完托福了！！成绩还不错，心情大好，特意把我的经验晒晒，供大家参考~不管是不是考托福，大家都希望迅速提高听力，听力是实际应用以及应试中都极其重要的一项基本能力。没有英语的母语环境，要想练听力，除了去英语角或是大街上寻找外国人跟自己聊天，恐怕对于大多数人来说最直接最方便的就是听力材料了。 大家都比较常用的是VOA（美国之音），BBC了，其中BBC还为中国的英语学习者设立了专门的节目供初学者收听。刚听广播时我还挺不习惯，听不懂人家说的，顶多也就能听懂一两个词。心想，完蛋，学英语之路曲折矣！心里真的挺受打击的。后来没事儿就放着玩，时间久了感觉听懂的就越来越多了。 对于考托福的同学来说，“太傻”网（http://www.taisha.org/test/toefl/）、普特英语听力、小马过河等挺不错的，纯应试的弄个新东方练练，除应试还想实用的可以看看秦苏珊英语（http://www.susanchyn.com.cn/）。此外，想做题了就去百度上搜，一大堆免费题库等着你呢。 以下是我找来的一篇材料（来自“太傻”）： 这是托福经典加试的一篇音乐方面的段子题，结合我前面给大家总结的音乐分类看看吧。虽然新托福考试机经重复率变得很小，但是经典加试还是重复率极高的，再比如像大王花这道植物学题，和浪漫主义、新古典主义这道文学题目，以及神经胶质细胞这道微生物题目,考生一定要做到耳熟能详，听觉形象的快速建立。下面我们来看看Ragtime Music. Ragtime介绍了一种流行于美国十九世纪左右名为ragtime的音乐，能够表现年青人的活力(spirit of youth)之类的，此乐流行是由于piano的关系，因为两者真是太搭配了。在那个年代，在各种场合都用钢琴。此乐当时流行程度，(like Rock & Roll在某一时期一样)。这里出现考点，女学生说了一堆后，来了一句 I just don't get it，意思是要教授explain，还说piano 之所以当时那么受欢迎，一是因为它能与音律产生和谐，另一是因为当时它算一种财富地位的象征什么的symbol of wealth and status。再加上，那个年代，大家都没钱，就去public concert or restaurant什么的听音乐，而piano声音够响亮，又和ragtime music rhythm搭配的天衣无缝，所以，两者相得益彰这个音乐年轻人很喜欢，因为很有激情。除了到处演出啊，park演出等不用钢琴，因为难搬(出现考点)because of transportation problem。 同时，此乐也是 jazz的前身，因为演奏者不按牌理出牌，一首曲七个人弹，弹出七种调。这种regtime音乐影响很远啊，例如现在的jazz就是从那发展来的。 Ragtime 拉格泰姆音乐(1890-1915期间在美国流行的一种音乐) Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still being composed today. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz. It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it was usually written in 2/4 or 4/4 time (meter) with a predominant left hand pattern of bass notes on odd-numbered beats and chords on even-numbered beats accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand. A composition in this style is called a "rag". A rag written in 3/4 time is a "ragtime waltz". Ragtime is not a "time" (meter) in the same sense that march time is 2/4 meter and waltz time is 3/4 meter; it is rather a musical genre that uses an effect that can be applied to any meter. The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents fall between metrical beats. This results in a melody that seems to be avoiding some metrical beats of the accompaniment by emphasizing notes that either anticipate or follow the beat. The ultimate (and intended) effect on the listener is actually to accentuate the beat, thereby inducing the listener to move to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King of Ragtime", called the effect "weird and intoxicating". He also used the term "swing" in describing how to play ragtime music: "Play slowly until you catch the swing...".[1] The name swing later came to be applied to an early genre of jazz that developed from ragtime. Converting a non-ragtime piece of music into ragtime by changing the time values of melody notes is known as "ragging" the piece. Original ragtime pieces usually contain several distinct themes, four being the most common number.
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