“琴癡”巧手，樂器新“聲”

浙江 江 麗

陳恭是一位樂器專家，他在福州擁有四家私人樂器博物館，館藏近千件中外樂器，有些樂器甚為罕見。

主題語境：人與社會 篇幅：315詞 建議用時：6分鐘

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 (保養) 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 （手風琴） 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.

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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.

B. It was owned by an old man in Germany.

C. It could originally play 10 pieces of music.

D. It could produce music with a coin put in it.

Language Study

Difficult sentence

He regards the piano, which is made of rosewood and features exquisite patterns, as a beauty from Europe. 他認為這架由紅木制成、圖案精美的鋼琴是一種來自歐洲的美。

【點石成金】該句中，主句部分為He regards the piano as a beauty from Europe，中間的which引導一個非限制性定語從句，對先行詞the piano進行補充說明。