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A World Without Books Or MusicIf books had never been discovered, man would have found some other way of recording his communication. But then, for our consideration, we should include as books everything that is a written record. This would include tablets, papyrus and anything else 一 including computer diskettes. In the case of music, it would be impossible to think that man can live without it. Looking at primitive cultures, it appears that music is actually a part of the human psyche. When two things are knocked together, music is produced. So for the sake of our discussion, it is intended to restrict the meaning of music to the popularly accepted concept. Music is the pleasing combination of sounds that we like to listen to.Though it is difficult to, we can pretend that these things never existed. In this case we would not miss them today. To compare with recent inventions, let us look at radio and television. Though we cannot think of life without them today, this is so only from comparatively recent times. There are many of us living today who had seen a time when there was no television. They will tell us that life was not that much different. The same is probably true of radio. But books are a different thing because they, or something akin to them, began thousands of years ago. In the case of music, it goes back even further — perhaps to millions of years. We may be able to imagine a world which never saw books, because books are a human invention. However, in the case of music this does not seem possible. Pleasing sounds are all around us; like the singing of the birds and the whistling of the wind. Music just seems to be inborn in us and in the world around us.If books did not exist, the world will be a poorer place indeed. Great philosophies like Plato's would become unknown and all the pleasures and lessons we could get from them will be lost forever. Then there is literature like the works of the great masters like Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austen. What a sombre, miserable world it will be without the pleasures of reading. Since there are so many other things which depend on reading - like plays, songs and movies ― we can expect them to disappear also. It would be a dark and unsatisfying world where knowledge is not propagated; where there are no books to derive pleasure from.In the case of music: Without it the world will be bleak and cold indeed. It would be a terrible world with no cheery tunes, no songs to sing and no great music to lose ourselves in. A world which does not listen to the music of the great masters like Chopin and Beethoven would be a very sorry world. There will not be so many smiles on faces anymore. When we lose music, an expression of a deep part of ourselves - from the soul - is lost. With music, connected activities like dancing will be lost too. A world without music and dancing will bring us back to the Stone Age.Unlike radio, television, telephones and computers, reading and music are not mere conveniences that we can live without. Reading is crucial for self-expression and for passing on records and knowledge to future generations. Music is part of our very soul. A world without these will not be the world as we know it. In fact, many of us would not want to live in such a world. 1.Music is part of the human psyche because ( ).2.According to the passage, life without television and radio would be ( ).. 3.It is impossible to imagine a world without music because ( ). 4.A world without books would be ( )..5.Why is music something that we cannot live without?

She refused to disclose what had been told her, on the_______that it would be a breach of faith.

A person who is_______typically has anxious thoughts and difficulty concentration or remembering.

In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote pan of Eastern Europe_______Europe into a great war.

Since the early 1990s, conservationists have_______protecting the Amazon in part because of its abundance of plant and animal species.

Which sport has the most expenses_______training equipment, players' personal equipment and uniforms?

At the sight of her husband getting off the train, the woman walked forward and_______him and stroked his white hair.

Although he was not caught cheating on the exam, the feeling of guilt_______over and over again.

There are several possible explanations for the greater job_______in Japan in contrast to the great job mobility in the United States.

Euthanasia is a practice of mercifully ending a person's life in order to_______the person from an incurable disease and intolerable suffering.

If a country wants to develop its economy successfully, there has to be a clear_______of its social needs.

We agree that a central purpose of drama has always been to provide a means for a society to_______upon itself and its beliefs.

Any nation that interferes in the internal affairs of another nation should be_______condemned.

The world is facing the_______of water shortages caused by population growth, uneven supplies of water, pollution, and other factors.

A completely new situation will_______when the new examination system comes into existence.

The landscape of the American West was dramatically altered during the 20th century as a result of the_______ construction of dams along major rivers.

In the Spring Export Commodities Fair the_______of fine china attracted much attention of easterners from all over the world.

Advance in food preservation gave consumers in developed countries access to_______all foods grown in distant lands.

When light illuminates an object, part of it is absorbed and part reflected; the_______lightness of an object depends on the proportion of light that is reflected.

However important we may regard school life to be, there is no denying the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or_______by the teacher.

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