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四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意 【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案 ，選出最適當的答案】 The history of Gregorian Chant begins before the birth of Christ. Chant is based upon the songs sung in the synagoguesand Middle Eastern countries. It’s fascinating to know that some of today’s chants are based upon the actual songs which Jesussang when he was living in Jerusalem.  Gregorian Chant was adopted by the Christian Church in about the 6th century and chant singing quickly became anessential part of Christian worship. This style of chanting was named after Pope Gregory the Great, who unified all the chantsinto one collection. It soon became an essential part of monastic worship; and, monks would write new chants and take themfrom monastery to monastery. Eventually there was sufficient Gregorian Chant for all the services: approximately nine a day, seven days a week andeven more on great feast days. In the early days the chant wasn’t copied into books. It had to be memorized and it would takemonks many years to learn all the different songs. Eventually they worked out a way to write music down, and words andnotes were copied into one large book which all the choir monks would gather round and sing from.  Many different styles of performance came into being and it wasn’t until the 19th century that the monks, like Gregorythe Great, began to seek a single method of performance which reflected what was known about early methods of chantsinging.  There’s a famous monastery at Solesmes in France, and its monks became responsible for the restoration of GregorianChant as we hear it today, on CDs and radio. They worked out a very artistic method of singing it and a new method of writingit down. They then produced books which contained the fruits of their scholarship. Their theories were adopted by monasteriesthroughout the world.  Unfortunately Gregorian Chant has now largely fallen into disuse in the Catholic church because of widespread changein the services.
21. What does the word “It” in the second paragraph refer to?
(A)The Christian Church.
(B)Singing Gregorian Chant.
(C)The Christian worship in the 6th century.
(D)The name Pope Gregory the Great gave to a chant.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.642458
統計：A(31),B(230),C(23),D(62),E(0)

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