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　　El Sistema: Venezuela’s Revolutionary Music Education

　　1 Music education programs vary greatly from country to country: the school bell rings, signaling the end of the

　　school day, and all the children race to the nearest music center, or núcleo. They play violins, clarinets, drums

　　and other instruments for hours, learning techniques from teachers and from their peers—and this

　　publicly-funded music instruction is open to all children. What you're picturing might sound like a fantasy, but in

　　the South American nation of Venezuela, El Sistema (“The System”), a comprehensive music education program

　　that serves over 300,000 children, is a reality.

　　[1] El Sistema, the nickname for the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar, was founded in 1975 by Dr. José Antonio

　　Abreu. [2] He envisioned this government-funded program not only as a vehicle for music instruction, but also for

　　social change. [3] Disappointed that Venezuela did not have its own 2 orchestra—Abreu wanted to educate

　　children about classical music on the national level. [4] By providing safe spaces for children from crime-ridden

　　neighborhoods to practice music, the government would be both protecting children and showing them that there

　　were other avenues to success than criminal activity. [5] Abreu also believed that the opportunity to play music is

　　a basic human right, and he wanted to 3 reinsure that all children had access to it. 4

　　The Venezuelan government began implementing Abreu’s ideas right 5 away, by the end of 1975, it had opened

　　the first núcleo. More soon opened, and students congregated 6 together at these centers after school to play

　　music. Children could attend classes from an early age: two-year-olds started learning the basics of rhythm even

　　before they reached the regular classroom. The number of núcleos has grown from just a few in the beginning to

　　over 300 today. They now operate from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. six days a week, and the government 7 funding every

　　facet of the program, from the instruments to the teachers. Over 800,000 young Venezuelans have learned music

　　through El Sistema in the 40 years since 8 their inception.

　　El Sistema has 9 propelled some of these young people into music careers. In 2002, Edicson Ruiz, a product of

　　El Sistema, became Berlin Philharmonic’s youngest professional bass player at age 17. Gustavo Dudamel,

　　another graduate of the program, is the music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and became the

　　director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009. 10 As Abreu says, “A child’s physical poverty is overcome by

　　the spiritual richness that music provides.” 11 Abreu’s bold idea—to provide music education for all—has

　　launched a few music careers, but even more importantly, it has given almost a million children the joy of playing

　　music.

　　1 Which choice best introduces the paragraph?

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. Imagine the following scenario:

　　C. Some people think the following situation would be great:

　　D. Music education programs offer many benefits:

　　2

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. orchestra, Abreu

　　C. orchestra; Abreu

　　D. orchestra: Abreu

　　3

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. ensure C. assure

　　D. reassure

　　4 To make paragraph 2 most logical, sentence 2 should be placed

　　A. where it is now.

　　B. after sentence 3.

　　C. after sentence 4.

　　D. after sentence 5.

　　5

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. away

　　C. away;

　　D. away, it was

　　6

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. with each other

　　C. all together

　　D. DELETE the underlined portion.

　　7

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. had funded

　　C. will fund D. funds

　　8

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. its

　　C. his

　　D. our

　　9

　　A. NO CHANGE

　　B. mobilized

　　C. plunged

　　D. pitched

　　10 Which choice best sets up the quotation that follows?

　　A. Not all students become professionals, of course, but all benefit from the program.

　　B. Audiences from all over the world have benefited from the talent of these two Venezuelan musicians.

　　C. Dudamel left Venezuela, but he has not forgotten the skills he learned through the program.

　　D. While some students in El Sistema become professionals outside of Venezuela, others pursue music careers

　　within the country.

　　11 The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?

　　A. Kept, because it concludes the passage by celebrating Abreu’s contributions.

　　B. Kept, because it provides information about the number of children who have benefited from the program.

　　C. Deleted, because it introduces an idea about Abreu instead of concluding the passage.

　　D. Deleted, because it provides contradictory information about the students’ music careers introduced earlier in

　　the paragraph.

　　BBBBC DDBAA A

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