2022年高考英语一轮复习Unit5Rhythm单元主题语篇训练一含解析北师大版必修2
Unit 5 单元主题语篇训练AIn 1957, Max Vernon Mathews wrote the first computer program called Music, which en
Unit 5单元主题语篇训练 A In 1957, Max Vernon Mathews wrote the first computer program called Music, which enabled acomputer to create sound and play it back.He was then working as an engineer at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.It enabled alarge IBM computer to play aseventeensecond piece of music he had written. The computer was so slow that it took an hour to play the seventeensecond piece of music.So Mathews moved the work to atape player to play the music at anormal speed.He later said that the sound quality of the musical notes was not great, but the technical importance of the music was huge. The sciencefiction writer Arthur C．Clarke visited Bell Laboratories in DaisyBell the 1960s.He heard acomputer “sing” the song on devices (设备) and learned about the programs developed by Mathews and other engineers.Clarke ASpaceOdyssey, noted this technology in his book 2001: which was later made into amovie. Mathews continued creating other versions of the Music program.He became interested in how computers could help musicians outside recording studios.The Groove program he developed was the first computer program made for live performances. He also developed an electronic device he called the Radio Baton, which looks like two drum sticks.It enables the user to control the speed and sound levels of orchestral music (管弦乐) played on acomputer by moving the two sticks on aspecial electronic surface. Mathews said he believed modern musicians were not making full use of the power of computer music.He said aviolin always sounds like aviolin.But with his Music, the way aviolin sounds is unlimited.He did not want computer sounds to replace live music, but he hoped computers would one day be considered serious instruments. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了Max Vernon Mathews把音乐与计算机结合 1
