填空题Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three
times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully
for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are
required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you
have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in
the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words
you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally,
when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have
written. In 1995, Ryan Schreiber was a
19-year-old Minneapolis record-store clerk who wanted to publish a rock-music
fanzine (杂志) but lacked access to a photocopier. Instead, he started a
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thoughts on bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi and the Pixies--groups whose songs
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golden age of "indie" artists, back when the word was {{U}}{{U}} 3
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{{U}}{{U}} 5 {{/U}}{{/U}}the artistic freedom and cachet that came from
operating on the fringes. By 2000, Schreiber had moved the site
to Chicago, acquired some freelance writers and codified the Pitchfork review
into a signature {{U}}{{U}} 6 {{/U}}{{/U}}--a long, rambling personal
opinion of an album, {{U}}{{U}} 7 {{/U}}{{/U}}by a rating on a scale from
0.0 to 10.0. But the site's {{U}}{{U}} 8 {{/U}}{{/U}}was still, to use his
word, "negligible". That changed in October of that year, when Pitchfork
posted a fawning, grandiloquent (夸张的) 10.0 review of Radio head's experimental
rock album Kid A. Critic Brent DiCrescenzo's paean included lines like
"butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into
the cobalt sky" and became an Internet sensation--for all the wrong
reasons. {{U}}{{U}} 9 {{/U}}{{/U}}.Schreiber and his
writers knew what they were talking about; Kid A., which later debuted at No. 1
on Billboard, really was a10.0 album. {{U}}{{U}} 10 {{/U}}{{/U}}--like
xylophone-prone Icelandic band Sigur Rós and harmonizing rockers Modest
Mouse--began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage. In the year of
2000, Modest Mouse moved from independent label Up Records to Sony-owned Epic;
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commercials.