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On December 23, 2008, Niu Niu held a piano concert at the national Grand Theater (国家大剧院). As an eleven-year-old boy, he became the youngest pianist ever to perform a concert at the theater.
Never too young to learn
Niu Niu was born into a musical family in Xiamen. His father Zhang was a piano teacher. Niu Niu grew up listening to his father’s students playing the piano. At just three years old, Niu Niu asked his father to teach him to play, too.
“I gave Niu Niu some sheet music and helped him find the eight notes when he first played the piano. To my surprise, he played nearly 80 percent correct,” said the father. He used to think that three years old is too young an age to learn piano, but Niu Niu changed his mind. He continued to allow Niu Niu to watch his teaching of other students and gave him more sheet music to play.
Playing for fun
Zhang started teaching Niu Niu standard piano lessons when he was four. Unlike many other piano teachers, Zhang didn’t insist that Niu Niu play strictly with the correct finger positioning (位置). He said that the strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing. So Niu Niu could play in his own way. He could play the tone successfully. But Niu Niu was required to play the music without looking at the sheet music. Now he can remember about 80 pages.
Rising to fame
In 2003, at the age of 6, Niu Niu successfully held a sole concert in his hometown Xiamen. At the age of 8, he gave a performance at the International Piano Festival in France. At the age of 10, Niu Niu played in London and his performance was praised by Prince Charles. Last year, this young pianist published his first album “Niu Niu Plays Mozart” and over 10,000 copies have been sold in the world.
We are very glad to see a young Chinese pianist rising in the music world.
小题1:How old was Niu Niu when he performed a concert at the National Grand Theater?
小题2:What was Niu Niu’s father?
小题3:What did Niu Niu’s father feel when Niu Niu played nearly 80 percent of the sheet music correct?
小题4:What did Niu Niu’s father say about the strict finger positioning?
小题5:What do you think of Zhang’s way of teaching his son Niu Niu? （请自拟一句话作答） |
答案
小题1:(He was) 11 years old./ He was 11.
小题2:(He was) A piano teacher.
小题3:He felt surprised./ Surprised.
小题4:(He said that) The strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing.
小题5:It (His way) was good/ wonderful/ successful/ effective./ It was a proper way/ … |
解析
小题1:从第一段的句子：As an eleven-year-old boy, he became the youngest pianist ever to perform a concert at the theater. 可知答案是：(He was) 11 years old./ He was 11.
小题2:从第二段的句子：His father Zhang was a piano teacher. 可知牛牛的爸爸是个钢琴老师：(He was) A piano teacher.
小题3:从第三段的句子：To my surprise, he played nearly 80 percent correct,”可知牛牛的爸爸感到很惊讶。He felt surprised./ Surprised.
小题4:从第四段的句子：He said that the strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing.可知严格的手指位置会让孩子没有谈钢琴的乐趣： (He said that) The strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing.
小题5:这题答案可以学生自己发挥：It (His way) was good/ wonderful/ successful/ effective./ It was a proper way/ … |
举一反三
Mr. White is a farmer. Last month he 36 his truck to town and on the way his truck knocked down a 37 and hurt him. He sent the boy to a 38 at once. He paid a lot of money for that, but the boy’s 39 wanted to get more money from him. So they said their son could no longer lift his 40 arm above his head.
Mr. White’s lawyer(律师) came and asked the boy a few questions in the court(法庭). “Now, my boy,” he said, “you were hurt 41 , weren’t you?” “Yes, sir,” said the boy. “And you can’t lift your right arm now, can you?” “42 , sir.”
“Could you 43 us how you can lift your right arm?” Slowly the boy lifted his right arm before his nose. “Poor boy,” said the lawyer. “And how 44 could you lift it before the accident?” “Oh, very high,” said the boy proudly (自豪) and the arm went up right over his 45 .
| 小题1: | | A．took | B．brought | C．made | D．drove |
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| 小题2: | | A．girl | B．parent | C．boy | D．farmer |
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| 小题3: | | A．hospital | B．home | C．farm | D．court |
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| 小题4: | | A．grandfather | B．father | C．parents | D．mother |
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| 小题6: | | A．last month | B．this month | C．yesterday | D．last week |
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| 小题7: | | A．Yes | B．Of course | C．Yes, I can’t | D．No |
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| 小题10: | | A．nose | B．arm | C．head | D．right arm |
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Once there was a little girl in a village. She spent summers on her grandfather’s farm. The year she was four, she knew some ducks. The ducks were white with orange feet. They lived in a little wooden house near the road. The little girl liked these ducks very much. Every day they walked down the road to the pond（池塘）. Then the ducks went into the water and the little girl sat on the bank（岸） and saw them swimming in the pond. The little girl talked to the ducks and they quacked（嘎嘎叫）back. Then one day the ducks were gone. No one would say anything about them. The little girl was afraid to ask where they were. One night everyone sat down for dinner. The food looked a little like chicken. The girl didn’t want to eat. Can you guess why?
A. eating chicken B. sitting by the pond
C. living on a farm D. ducks and a little girl
小题1:The ducks were __________. | A．yellow and orange | B．yellow and white | | C．white with orange feet | D．white and black |
小题2:When the little girl ________ , the ducks quacked back. | A．saw them swimming | B．sat on the bank | | C．walked to the pond | D．talked to them |
小题3:At the end of the story, the ducks were probably _______. | A．under the water | B．on the plate (盘子) | | C．in the wooden house | D．swimming in the pond |
小题4:The little girl didn’t eat because _____________. | A．she wanted nice cakes | B．the food was ducks | | C．the food was too hot | D．the plate was empty |
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A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches (英尺) longer.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening（缩短）by about two inches.
Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything. But when his mother finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’ s trousers. She was a kind girl,so she went quietly upstairs withoutsaying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches. The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she,too, remembered her brothers trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine（想象）the look on the young man’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning. .
小题1:What were the young man’s new trousers like at first? | A．They were a bit too long. | | B．They were just suitable. | | C．They were too short for him. | | D．There were about two inches shorter. |
小题2:Why didn’t the young man’s mother and sisters answer him in the kitchen? | A．Because they were very busy. | | B．Because they didn’t hear him. | | C．Because they didn’t like him. | | D．Because they couldn’t do that. |
小题3:When did his elder sister shortened the trousers? | A．In the evening. | | B．Before she finished the washing. | | C．After lunch. | | D．After she came back from the cinema. |
小题4:What did the young man find about the trousers the next morning?
He found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him. 小题5:How did the young man feel when he put the trousers on the next morning? | A．Pleasant. | B．Thankful. | C．Surprised. | D．Bored. |
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John is a manager and he is very busy. He spends a lot of time traveling abroad. So he reads short stories. He likes reading stories about ordinary people and the things that happen to them in today’s world.
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Sara is a student. She likes reading true stories. In those stories, people write about themselves. She’s especially interested in people who have had unusual or different lives. She also wants to write a story about herself one day.
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Monica is a history teacher in London. She enjoys reading more than anything else. She likes reading about the history of people in other parts of the world. She wants to know how historical events changed people’s lives.
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Tony loves reading so much! In fact he opened a little bookstore several years ago so he could share his interest of reading with others. His favorite books are novels. Some stories are so wonderful that he often tries to finish them fast in order to know what happens in the end.
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小题1:John is a ______.| A．manager | B．student | C．teacher | D．writer |
小题2:Who has a bookstore?| A．John. | B．Sara. | C．Tony. | D．Monica. |
小题3:All of them like ______.| A．teaching | B．traveling | C．writing | D．reading |
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Pieter Bruegel was a famous artist who lived in Europe five hundred years ago. He is well known for a painting called Children’s Games. People like this painting because it is full of fun. It shows how children in Pieter’s time enjoyed themselves in different ways. In all, there are about eighty games being played in the painting.
Children’s Games shows a busy street scene in a town long ago. The street is a wide and open space. There are no cars, so there is plenty of room to play. There are about two hundred children in the painting. Some play in groups and others play alone. They seem to be enjoying their freedom in the fresh air and their games. Some of the games are still played today.
The games in the painting do not require children to spend money on extra materials(材料). Instead, they use simple everyday objects like hats and sticks. A game might need a rope, some chalk, a hoop, a spinning top, or even a barrel. Some games are played without any toys at all. For example, one scene in the painting shows children turning somersaults(翻筋斗) inside the fence.
Even though Pieter Bruegel lived a long time ago, children today can learn an important lesson from what he painted. The painting shows us how little we need in order to enjoy ourselves. All children really need is one another. It’s not the toys or games that are found in the stores that create fun. Using our imagination can do this for us.
小题1:The painting shows about ______ games.小题2:The children in the painting are playing ______.| A．in the street | B．in the house | C．on the grass | D．at the school |
小题3:From the painting we learn that ______.| A．children today need to take more lessons | | B．children can create fun by using imagination | | C．children need more toys to enjoy themselves | | D．children spend much money on everyday objects |
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