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I'll 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 can't _____(1)the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope's computer.

It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having _____(2)thinking of new melodies, so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not_____(3)to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers, brains_____(4)like big databases.First, they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take_____(5)the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is_____(6). 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_____(7)database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The software analyzed the dataa_____(8)it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the_____(9)into new patterns.Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They weren'tgood, but it was a start.

Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could_____(10)more complex music. He also added many other composers, including his own workto the database.

A few years later, Cope's computer program, called "Emmy", was ready to help him with his opera. The_____(11)required a lot of collaboration between the composer and Emmy. Cope listened to the computer's musical ideas and used the_____(12)that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Falling, and it was a great_____(13)! Cope received some of the best reviews of his career, but no one knew exactly_____(14)he had composed the work.

Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of compositions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn't like of her music, _____(15)she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!

1._____

A.Make

B.tell

C.Take

D.understand

2._____

A.trouble

B.time

C.fear

D.pleasure

3._____

B.peaceful

C.classic

D.easy

4._____

A.Feel

B.look

C.sound

D.work

5._____

A.in

B.at

C.with

D.out

6._____

A.added

B.left

C.created

D.released

7._____

A.Small

B.huge

C.Simple

D.colorful

8._____

A.cut

B.drop

C.broke

D.turned

9._____

A.parts

B.programs

C.ideas

D.pieces

10._____

A.play

B.hear

C.collect

D.analyze

11._____

A.stage

B.process

C.period

D.application