四、(跨学科 音乐)请认真阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
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Frederic Chopin was a great composer and an excellent pianist. He composed twenty-four short 1.
pieces
(piece) for the piano called Preludes. 2.
The
longest one, Prelude No.15, is better known by its nickname, the “Raindrop” Prelude. How does it get its nickname?
One day 3.
in
1838, when Chopin’s lover George Sand went out in a rainstorm, Chopin became 4.
worried
(worry). While waiting for Sand, he wrote Prelude No.15. When Sand came back, Chopin played her the music. Sand 5.
thought
(think) the notes sounded like raindrops. She let Chopin 6.
listen
(listen) to the raindrops falling on the roof. This made Chopin 7.
unhappy
(happy). He insisted that he never paid attention to those sounds or copied them.
However, like Sand, many people hear raindrops in this prelude. Some notes repeating throughout the piece sound like raindrops. The flow of the music 8.
is
(be) like rain, too. The piece starts 9.
softly
(soft), but it gets louder, like rain getting heavier. Then the music gets quiet 10.
and
finally ends, like rain when it stops.