高中英语必修二unit5课文及听力原文
Unit 5 Music
THE BAND THAT WASN'T （34 页）
Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?
Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music.
They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practicing their music in someone's house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires!
However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizers had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.
As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them.
So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.
并非乐队的乐队
你曾经想过要成为一个乐队里有名的歌手或音乐家吗？你是否曾梦想过在音
乐会上面对成千上万的观众演唱，观众欣赏你的歌唱为你鼓掌吗？你唱卡拉0K时是否假装自己就是像宋祖英
或刘欢一样著名的歌星吗？说实在的，很多人把名和利看得很重。那么，人们又是怎样一起组成乐队的呢？
许多音乐家聚在一起组成乐队，是因为他们喜欢自己作曲，演奏自己的音乐。他们开始可能是一组中学
生，在某个人家里排练音乐是成名的第一步。有时他们可能在街上或地铁里为过路人演奏，这样他们可以
为自己或自己要买的乐器多挣一些钱。后来，他们可能在酒吧或者俱乐部里演出，这样他们可以得到现金。
当然，他们希望在录音棚里录音，然后卖掉上百万张碟，从而成为百万富翁。
然而，也有一个用不同方式组建起来的乐队。这支乐队叫“门基乐队”，它开始时是以电视节目表演的形式出现的。组成乐队的音乐人演奏音乐，还彼此打趣都笑。这些玩笑和音乐大多都在模仿“甲壳虫”乐队。电视制作人原计划想寻找四位会唱又会表演的乐手。他们在报纸上登了一则广告，想招摇滚乐手，但他们只招到一个满意的。乐队的其他三人只能用演员来代替。
因为这些演员中有些人唱得不是很好，他们不得不依靠队里的其他人帮助。所以在演出的时候他们只是假唱。不管怎样，他们的表演非常幽默以至于其他的乐队也开始模仿。他们非常走红使得歌迷们为了更加熟悉他们而成立了俱乐部。门基乐队每个星期都要在电视上演唱由别的音乐家创作的歌曲。然而，经过大约一年以后，门基乐队逐渐对自己的工作认真起来，他们开始像一支真正的乐队那样演唱自己创作的歌曲。然后他们录制自己的唱片，并且开始巡回表演他们自己的
音乐。在美国，他们甚至比“甲壳虫”乐队还要受欢迎，出售的录音专辑还要多。“门基乐队”大约在
1970年左右解散，但是令人高兴的是，到80年代中期他们再次聚首。在1996年，他们推出了一张新的专
辑，像真正的乐队一样以此来庆
祝他们以往的时光。
FREDDY, THE FROG(1) ( 38 页听力)
Freddy the frog dipped his long, thin legs into the water. He felt so tired! Within a few short weeks
he had changed from a small tadpole into the beautiful animal he saw now. He smiled to himself.
Then suddenly he heard a fine deep sound that
carried far into the darkness of the quiet night. Freddy looked up. Other frogs! I must try and find
them, he thought. It is so hard being a grown - up frog on my own. He began to swim slowly towards
the sound. Suddenly he knocked into a large lily pad. On it sat three confident frogs and they were playing instruments. Freddy climbed onto the leaf. “ Can I try to sing? ” he asked quietly. “ Of
course, ” they said. He opened his mouth wide and began: Help! I need somebody, Help! Not just
anybody. Help! You know I need someone, Help! Now I find - I' ve changed my mind. I ' ve opened
up the doors. (Chorus) Help me if you can, ' Im feeling down. And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me get my feet back on the ground.
FREDDY THE FROG ((11)38 页)
Not long after Freddy and the band became famous, they visited Britain on a brief
tour. Fans showed their devotion by waiting for hours to get tickets for their concerts.
Freddy was now quite confident when he went into a concert hall. He enjoyed singing
and all the congratulations afterwards! His most exciting invitation was to perform on
a programme called "Top of the Pops."He had to go to London, wear an expensive suit
and give a performance to a TV camera. It felt very strange. But as soon as the programme was over, the telephones which were in the same room started ringing. Everybody was asking when they could see Freddy and his band again. They were truly stars.
Then things went wrong. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without being followed.
Even when they wore sunglasses or beards people recognized them. Fans found them even when they
went into the toilet. They tried to hide in the reading rooms of libraries, but it was useless. Someone was always there! Their personal life was regularly discussed by people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends. At last feeling very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band to which they were never to return, and went back to the lake.
弗雷迪和他的乐队成名后不久，就到英国作短暂的巡回演出去了。歌迷们表现出了极大的忠心，他们等几个小时来购买音乐会的门票。弗雷迪现在步入演出厅会感到非常自信。他很喜欢演唱，喜欢演出后的祝贺声！最令他感到激动的是受邀请参加叫做“顶级流行歌手”的电视节目中的那场表演。他得去伦敦，穿着昂贵的服装，对着电视摄像机演唱。那种感觉真是不一般。而节目一完，这个房间里德电话铃声就开始响起来了。大家都问他们什么时候可以再次看到弗雷迪和他的
乐队。他们真的成了歌星！
后来情况可就不妙了。弗雷迪和他的乐队无论走到哪儿都有人跟踪。甚至他们戴
着太阳镜留着胡子时，人们也会认出他们来。即使他们上厕所，也会被歌迷发现。他们试图在图书馆的阅览
室里躲藏起来，但这些都不管用。总有人在那儿等着！
一些不认识他们的人也在不断的讨论他们的私生活，而且就像是他们的密友一样在讨论他们。终于由于深感
苦恼，神经高度紧张，弗雷迪和他的乐队已经意识到他们必须在感到自己太痛苦之前离开这个国家。因此，
他们离开了英国，从此再也没有回去，又重新回到湖里去了。
“ Mozart effect ”（69 页听力）
Do you worry about exams? Of course, everyone does. Do you find it difficult to remember what you
study? Well, everybodyremember what you study? Well,everybody has trouble remembering things
from time to time. Do you know music can help you remember things better? Scientists have shown
that if you listen to classical music and especially Mozart while you are studying, it helps your
memory. It is called the “ Mozart effect ” . It would be useful to know if the “ Mozart effect ” works
with all kinds of music. Certainly scientists have done some experiments to find out. They have tried
playing other kinds of music （such as pop music） while students are studying,but it doesn ' t work. It seems that the regular rhythms of classical music help develop one's memory. However, this improvement only lasts for a short time .If you want to improve your intelligence, what should you do?
Scientists think that learning a musical instrument is helpfullearning a musical instrument is helpful,Especially for improving maths skills. This is because maths and music both use the same part of the brain. So if you want to be good at maths, perhaps you should go to a music class!
The music of Bach （72 页听力）
Classical music does not have words. It tries to describe feelings with musical instruments. It is
called classical music because it was written at a time when there was no pop or rock music. The
music was written to a special pattern. Only the cleverest composers could make beautiful music using this pattern.
One of these clever composers was Bach. He was not famous during his life, but became very
famous after his death.
He worked in a small church and had to write new songs to sing every week. So he
composed beautiful choral music. He also wrote music for people to listen to as they left the church. Some of his music is very mathematical with different parts that repeat each other in a very peaceful way. All his music was written for God and some of it is very moving. He never became rich but his music has a special place in classical music. He is remembered today for the beauty of his musical patterns. You can listen to one of his pieces of music now.