单选题 Musicians are fascinated with the possibility that music may be found in nature; it makes our own desire for art seem all the more essential. Over the past few years no less a bold musical explorer than Peter Gabriel has been getting involved. At the Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, he has been making music together with Kanzi, one of the bonobo apes (倭黑猩猩) involved in the long-term language acquisition studies of Sue and Duane Savage-Rumbaugh.
I have seen the video of Kanzi picking notes out on a piano-like keyboard, with Gabriel and members of his band playing inside the observation booth in the lab. (They did it this way because Kanzi had bitten one of his trainers a few days previously——interspecies communication without its dangers.) The scene is beautiful, the ape trying out the new machine and looking thoughtfully pleased with what comes out. He appears to be listening, playing the right notes. It is tentative but moving, the animal groping for something from the human world but remaining isolated from the rest of the band. It is a touching encounter, and a bold move for a musician whose tune Shock the Monkey many years ago openly condemned the horrors of less sensitive animals experiments than this.
What is the scientific value of such a jam session? The business of the Research Center is the forging of greater communication between human and animal. Why not try the fertile and mysterious ground of music in addition to the more testable arena of simple language? The advantage of hearing music in nature and trying to reach out to nature through music is that, though we don't fully understand it, we can easily have access to it. We don't need to explain its working to be touched by it. Two musicians who don't speak the same language can play together, and we can appreciate the music from human cultures far from our own.
Music needs no explanation, but it clearly expresses something deep and important, something humans can't live without. Finding music in the sounds of birds, whales and other animals makes the farther frontiers of nature seem that much closer to us.

单选题 It can be learned from the passage that Peter Gabriel ______.
A. is a bold expert on animal behaviour.
B. wants to find more about natural music.
C. is working on animal's language ability
D. specializing in human-animal cooperation

单选题 Kanzi was arranged to stay in a separate place ______.
A. to prevent him from attacking the human players
B. so that he would not be disturbed by others.
C. because he needed a large room to move around.
D. after he had destroyed the others' musical instruments.

单选题 Kanzi the ape ______.
A. was annoyed by the music playing activity.
B. demonstrated no unusual talent for music.
C. became more obedient when playing music.
D. seemed content with what he was producing.

单选题 Which of the following words can best describe the advantage of music?
A. Controllable B. Explanation C. Accessible D. Testable

单选题 The writer seems to suggest that ______.
A. music should replace language as the major arena of animal research .
B. animal experiments are more often than not cruel and inhuman.
C. great progress has been made in the field of interspecies communication.
D. the experiment with music may help scientific research on animals.

单选题 The best title for the passage is ______.
A. Music——The Essence of Nature
B. Music——A Better Way to Enjoy Nature .
C. Music——A New Frontier for Scientists
D. Music——Beyond National and Cultural Boundary