“琴痴”巧手，乐器新“声”

2022-09-07浙江

疯狂英语·新悦读 2022年9期

浙江江丽

陈恭是一位乐器专家，他在福州拥有四家私人乐器博物馆，馆藏近千件中外乐器，有些乐器甚为罕见。

主题语境：人与社会篇幅：315词建议用时：6分钟

1Born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, in 1946, Chen Gong has been collecting and repairing old instruments for decades.

2He worked at an art school in Fuzhou in 1974, responsible for repairing more than 100 instruments. In 1990, Chen got a chance to pay academic visits to a number of countries. When he visited a village in Germany, famous for making instruments, he was impressed by the fact that some elderly people animatedly discussed aspects of an instrument. They were so excited that they seemed ready for their discussion to turn into a fight.

3Chen found the world of instruments fascinating. He learned that, since repair and maintenance (保养) costs in foreign countries were very high, some damaged instruments were put aside without being fixed. As a result, he started to buy them,transporting them to his hometown to repair them himself.

4A highlight of his collection is a Heintzman piano made in 1890. He regards the piano, which is made of rosewood and features exquisite (精致的)patterns, as a beauty from Europe. He bought it in Northern Ireland.He spent four hours repairing an accordion （手风琴） for free for the owner, who finally agreed to sell the piano to Chen.

5He also collected a damaged coin piano that was made in London about 120 years ago. Once a coin is put in it, it automatically produces music. According to Chen, it could originally play 10 pieces of music, and now he has repaired it to the extent that it can play Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

6Chen retired from the art school in 2006, but he continued to repair instruments and has opened four museums in Fuzhou. They have on display more than 1,000 instruments he has collected and repaired over the years and are open to the public for free, with the aim of promoting the culture of the instruments.

Reading Check

1. What's Chen Gong's job at the art school in Fuzhou?

A. Visiting foreign countries.

2.3 糖尿病患者并发症患病率 166例患者中糖尿病相关并发症的患病率也较高，其中合并糖尿病周围神经病变者占51.81%，合并糖尿病周围血管病变者占36.14%，合并糖尿病视网膜病变者占29.52%，合并糖尿病低血糖者占22.89%，合并糖尿病肾病者占7.23%，合并糖尿病酮症者占6.63%，合并糖尿病足者占0.60%，尚未出现并发症者占25.90%。

B. Fixing instruments.

C. Writing academic articles.

D. Teaching music lessons.

2. The underlined word “animatedly” in paragraph 2 can be replaced by ____.

A. angrily B. proudly

C. excitedly D. briefly

3. Why did Chen Gong take damaged instruments to his hometown to repair?

B. To save costs.

C. To live more comfortably.

D. To share experience with relatives.

4. What can we learn about the Heintzman piano?

A. It was made of rosewood in 1890.