阅读理解 The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short
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Marc"s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven"s CDs to him when she was pregnant (***的). Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he"d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship (奖学金).
At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings - sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn"t.”
B. France.
C. Canada
D. the United States
B. f
ive C. six
D. nine
B. 使……担心
C. 使……惊奇
D. 使……难过
B. eight hours a day
C. in his free time
D. only on weekends
B. he doesn"t like challenges
C. he is afraid of challenges
D. he wants to give up music
答案
举一反三
South Pole Station as the only doctor in 1998 when she was 47.
In early March 1999, she discovered that there was something wrong with her right breast (乳房).
She was sure it was cancer (癌症), but she wasn’t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn’t leave
the station for the next seven months until the snow turned back into water. Rather than wait for the
death, Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer. But without the proper medical help, she wouldn’t
live for long. Soon a USA Air Force jet came to provide her with some help. She started her own
treatments (治疗) after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally returned home that
October. Since then, she had become helpful to cancer charities.
Sadly, Dr. Nielsen’s cancer got worse and worse. She passed away on June 23, 2009. She once
wrote to her parents, “I understand what life really is: It is not when or how you die but how you truly
were ever alive.”
stead of waiting for the death. Many evenings, John returned home 3 at the beginning of the new term. His parents told him to concentrate more 4 his studies, but their words went in one 5 and out the other. His parents were so angry that they 6 his basketball. From that day on, John returned home on time but locked 7 in his room.
At first, his parents dreamt their son could study hard to enter a top university. But 8 news shattered (破灭) their dream. John"s pre-exam test scores were 9 . One night, John’s mother looked into his room and 10 him reading a basketball magazine.
So John"s parents discussed the matter. They 11 to make a deal (约定) with John. If John scored high marks in the following tests, he could get his ball back and 12 once again; if he failed, they would keep the ball 13 he improved.
John 14 reading his magazines. He started working hard. He started getting high marks and got his 15 back. The ball stayed with John until he entered a top university.
| 阅读下面短文，并做短文后的题目，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。 |
| Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn"t change a lot. Then he dropped out (退学). But he was full of new ideas. After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life. Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name "Apple" just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden. His Apple Computer was such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became popular all over the world. |
| 1. Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he _____. |
| A. never did his lessons B. was full of new ideas C. always made troubles with his schoolmates D. dropped out |
| 2. Steven Jobs didn"t finish college, did he"? |
| A. Yes, he did. B. No, he didn"t. C. Yes, he was. D. No, he wasn"t. |
| 3. Steven Jobs designed his new computer . |
| A. in India B. with his friend C. in an apple tree garden D. by himself |
| 4. Steven Jobs was popular for his _____ all over the world. |
| A. new ideas B. apple C. Apple Computer D. video games |
| 5. From this passage we know _____. |
| A. Steven Jobs didn"t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates B. Steven Jobs liked travelling in India and California C. Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true D. Steven Jobs could only design video games |
| 根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词,使短文意思完整。每空限一词。 |
| “Lei Feng” is now part of our language. It means “helping o 1 ”.If a person is h 2 , we call him “Lei Feng”.“Lei Feng was a soldier in the early 1960s. He was born in 1940 in Changsha, Hunan. His family didn"t have much money. When he was seven, his parents died. He became a soldier at the a 3 of 20. He had a warm heart and a 4 helped others. He said, “To live is to serve the people－live to make others h 5 . ” He regarded other people a 6 his family. He gave his own money to other soldiers. He e 7 washed clothes for others. Lei lived a s 8 life. He didn"t often buy new clothes and never wasted things. He loved to study and work. On August 15, 1962, a pole(杆) fell on Lei"s head and took his life. He was only 22 years old. On March 5, 1963, Chairman Mao Zedong called on(号召)a  ll C 9 to learn from Lei Feng. Today many Lei Feng groups exist in China. They try to help people in needs. Not only Chinese but also many f 10 people around the world follow his example. |
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