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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goe

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问题     Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goes. Sometimes attributed to Frank Zappa, other times to Elvis Costello, this quote is usually intended to convey the futility of such an endeavor, if not the complete silliness of even attempting it. But Glenn Kurtz’s graceful memoir, Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music, turns the expression on its head, giving it a different meaning by creating a lovely, unique book.
    Kurtz picked up the guitar as a kid in a music-loving family, attended the Long Island music school, and went on to play on Merv Griffin’s TV show before graduating from Tufts University. Motivating the young Kurtz was the dream of reinventing classical guitar, as if by his great ambition a-lone he could push it from the margins of popular interest to center stage-something not even accomplished by the late Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, perhaps the only artist of the form ever to reach anything resembling widespread celebrity.
    This book reads like a love story of sorts: Boy meets guitar. Boy loves guitar. Guitar breaks boy’s heart or, more precisely, the ordinariness of a working musician’s life does so. "I’d just imagined the artist’s life naively, childishly, with too much longing, too much poetry and innocence and purity," Kurtz writes. " The guitar had been the instrument of my dreams. Now the dream was over.
    Boy leaves guitar. Were the story to end here, this book would be a tragedy, but after nearly a decade the boy returns to guitar, and although he has lost the enthusiasm he had in his youth, he finds his love of the guitar again in a way he never could have appreciated before.
    Although Kurtz is writing about a unique musical path, his journey speaks eloquently to the heart of anyone who has ever desperately yearned to achieve something and felt the sting of disappointment. "Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream—of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete—lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what it is," he writes. "Is that time and effort, that talent and ambition, truly wasted?" [br] What does the passage say about classical guitar?
选项 A、It is not popular with the public.
B、It is not an easy skill to master.
C、It is a favorite of many young people.
D、It is a craze in some countries like Spain.
答案 A
解析 根据文中第二段的内容“as if by his great ambition alone he could push it from themargins of popular interest to center stage”可见古典吉他还在大众兴趣的边缘，所以A符合文意。B项“它是一种不容易掌握的技能”，吉他是否容易掌握文中没有提到；C项“它是很多年轻人的一种爱好”，文中提到吉他还在大众兴趣的边缘，C项不符合文意；D项“在西班牙这样的很多国家它是一种狂热”，文中只提到安德烈斯是西班牙著名的吉他演奏家，但是没有提到西班牙对吉他的狂热，所以这三项都不对。
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