Question

“The best age to start learning the violin is between three and six,” says Margaret Porter, a violinist and music teacher who lives in London. “1.”

Margaret prefers to take pupils at three and four, although she has made lots of exceptions ( 例外) for five-year-olds. 2.. Since she started teaching the violin in 1972, she has had more than 3,000 pupils and one third of them are five-year-olds. Margaret’s pupils have group lessons. Each group has about ten pupils at the most and each lesson lasts an hour, once half a month. 3.Parents also have to attend the classes. In her opinion, it is important that the parents take an active interest in the lessons. 4.. They do not even try to read music until they have been playing for several years, and for a long time there is a big difference between their playing and reading of music.

5. And she always suggests that pupils who perform particularly well should leave and study the violin using more traditional methods.

A.Pupils learn to play by ear from the earliest lessons.

B.A real musician should know why music sounds the way it does.

C.Following her method, the pupils will become great violinists sooner or later.

D.Her first class included her children’s five-year-old school friends.

E.Margaret says that her method is not supposed to produce great violinists.

F.It’s the time when you are learning about the world.

G.What’s more, each pupil has one individual lesson a week with her.

Answer 1