2．Children can start formal music training when they can________.

　　A．play some simple musical instruments

　　B．play the piano according to the notes

　　C．recognize symbols and follow instructions

　　D．perform with the help of instructors

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。从第三段中的"as soon as the child can tell apart symbols and follow instructions "可知，当儿童在能够识别符号和听懂指令的时候，就可以开始接受正式的音乐训练了。

　　3．The underlined word in Paragraph 4 probably refers to ________.

　　A．course　　　　　　　　 B．ability

　　C．goal D．reality

　　解析：选A　词义猜测题。本段主要说明的是成为音乐撰写员需要参加的一些课程，其中听音训练就是其中的一种。

　　4．The passage mainly tells us________.

　　A．when children can start music training

　　B．how to recognize different music

　　C．how to become a music transcriber

　　D．what is a music transcriber

　　解析：选C　标题归纳题。通读短文可知，本文第一段提出了音乐撰写员的主要任务，接着从4个方面介绍了成为一名音乐撰写员所需要的条件，这条主线贯彻文章的始终。

　　B

　　I fell in love with music from a young age and often sat down making a few songs of my own.What would life be like, I wondered, without a beautiful song？In 1992, I made two love songs for my darling wife and watched tears run down her face as I sang."Sam, "she said earnestly, "your songs should be heard by more people."

　　She got my ballads and started bothering various media people about me, her singing barber husband.Two radio stations took an interest and played the songs.After the programme was aired, I became known in our community as the Singing Barber.

The biggest surprise, however, was still to come.I received a call from a music promoter who offered me a longterm recording contract.He explained that he would be investing a lot of money to market my songs.I needed to be wholly focused on selling my records all