Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she
became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员 ) in spite of her disability.
"Early on I decided not to allow the 1 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up
on a farm in Scotland and began 2 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my
passion(酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 3 . Doctors concluded that the
nerve damage was the 4 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never
5 me. "
"My 6 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform,
I 7 to "hear" music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can 8 the pitch of a
note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动) I feel through my body and through my 9 . My entire
sound world exists by making use of almost every 10 that I have. "
"I was 11 to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal
Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 12 this before and some teachers 13
my admission. Based on my performance, I was 14 admitted and went on to 15 with the academy"s
highest honours. "
"After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I 16 and arranged a lot of musical compositions since 17 had been written specially for solo percussionists. "
"I have been a soloist for over ten years. 19 the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn"t 18 that
my passion couldn"t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 20 by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go. " |
( )1. A. conditions
( )2. A. enjoying
( )3. A. sight
( )4. A. evidence
( )5. A. left
( )6. A. purpose
( )7. A. turned
( )8. A. tell
( )9. A. carefulness
( )10. A. sense
( )11. A. dissatisfi
( )12. A. done
( )13. A. supported
( )14. A. usually
( )15. A. study
( )16. A. wrote
( )17. A. enough
( )18. A. However
( )19. A. mean
( )20. A. directed | B. opinions
B. choosing
B. hearing
B. result
B. excited
B. decision
B. learned
B. see
B. movement
B. effort
B. astonished
B. accepted
B. followed
B. finally
B. research
B. translated
B. some
B. Although
B. seem
B. guided | C. actions
C. taking
C. touch
C. excuse
C. accompanie
C. promise
C. used
C. hear
C. imaginatio
C. feeling
C. determined
C. advised
C. required
C. possibly
C. graduate
C. copied
C. many
C. When
C. conclude
C. taught | D. recommendatio
D. giving
D. taste
D. cause
D. disappointed
D. goal
D. ought
D. smell
D. experience
D. idea
D. discouraged
D. admitted
D. opposed
D. hopefully
D. progress
D. read
D. few
D. Since
D. say
D. limited |
答案
| 1-5: BCBDA 6-10: DBACA 11-15: CADBC 16-20: ADBAD |
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| 阅读理解 | I first went to Harrow in the summer term. The school had the biggest swimming pool I had ever seen.
It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite a habit of
this with boys of my own size or less.
One day I saw a boy wrapped in a towel on the side of the pool. He was no bigger than I was, so I
thought him a fair game. Coming secretly behind,I pushed him in,holding on to his towel so that it would
not get wet. I was surprised to see an angry face come out from the water, and a being of great strength
making its way by fierce strokes(猛力地划) to the shore. I fled, but in vain. He overtook me, seized me
violently,and threw me into the deepest part of the pool. I soon climbed out on the other side, and found
myself surrounded by a crowd of younger boys. "Do you know what you have done?" they said, "It"s
Amery;he is in Grade Six. He is champion at gym; he has got his football honor. "
I was frightened and felt ashamed. How could I tell his position when he was wrapped in a bath towel
and so small? 1 decided to apologize immediately. "I am sorry, "I said,"I mistook you for a Grade Four
boy. You are so small. "He didn"t seem pleased at all, so I added in a most brilliant word, "My father,
who is a great man, is also small. "At this he laughed, and after some general words about my rude
behavior and how I had better be careful in the future, signified the incident was closed. | | 1. The writer thought Amery "a fair game" because the boy__________. | A. looked like an animal
B. was fond of games
C. was of similar size
D. was good at sports | | 2. The writer felt "ashamed" because__________. | A. he was laughed at by other boys
B. Amery turned out to be in the same grade
C. he pushed Amery hard and hurt him
D. he played a joke on an outstanding athlete | | 3. By saying "My father, who is a great man, is also small", the write __________. | A. tried to please Amery
B. challenged Amery
C. threatened Amery
D. admired his father | | 4. Which of the following is TRUE? | A. The writer could run faster than Amery.
B. The writer liked playing jokes on boys of all sizes.
C. Amery was a student in Grade Four.
D. Amery forgave the writer for his rude behavior. | The summer I was ten, my mother decided to bring us to the world of art. My brother and I were
not very excited when we realized what my mother meant. What she meant was not that we could take
drawing classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with her at
the Fine Arts Museum. Before each visit to the museum, she made us read about artists and painting
styles(风格). It was almost as bad as being in school. Who wants to spend the summer thinking about
artists when you could be with your friends at the swimming pool?
First we had to read about ancient Egyptians(古埃及人)and their strange way of painting faces and
then go to look at them at the museum. My 12-year-old brother thought this was so funny, but I was not
interested. Later we had to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange
long clothing. We had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly(髫曲)hair and with no clothes on flying around the edges of paintings. I certainly couldn"t see what was so great about art.
On our last visit to the museum, something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary.
In it, a woman was reading to a child. The colors were soft and gentle, and you could tell by the mother"s
expression how happy she was just to be with the child. I couldn"t stop looking at this painting! I wanted
to see every painting Mary had ever made! It was really worth looking at so many paintings to find a
painter who could interest me so much. | | 1. The aim of the mother"s plan was to__________. | A. take them to visit the museum
B. introduce them to the world of art
C. ask them to read about artists
D. show them different painting styles | | 2. What made the writer go through a change that summer? | A. One of Mary"s paintings.
B. A strange way of painting.
C. Artists in the Middle Ages.
D. Her mother"s instruction. | | 3. From the text, we can see__________. | A. the importance of curiosity
B. the effect of art
C. the value of learning
D. the power of family education | | 完形填空。 | It was an afternoon in the winter. Some friends and I were talking at a restaurant. We talked and
talked and soon swimming became the 1 . Suddenly I hit upon an idea. "Wouldn"t it be 2 if we went
swimming? Others went swimming in winter, and 3 couldn"t we? Besides, we could be 4 if we did.
" I told them about this and they all said it was a good idea indeed.
Early in the morning, three days 5 , we four were standing at the bus stop, with bags in our hands,
6 for a bus to take us to the 7 . The sky was clear, the sun was shining, but all the same, it was very
cold, 8 our heavy overcoats were not enough to keep us 9 . We all felt that we should go back, but
no one wanted to 10 .
We soon reached the sands. There was nobody there, but we were not to be discouraged. 11 we
were proud that we were the 12 ones that dared to challenge the weather. Besides, the sun could
keep us warm. So we 13 ourselves quickly.
But things were not going to be so nice as we thought. The sea wind was blowing, we felt 14 cold
and we shook from head to feet. At last we decided to 15 the sea water. We put our feet in first, only
to take them back 16 . The water was unbelievably cold. 17 I suggested that we should all jump in
at the same time. We all went back ten steps. I gave the order and we all rushed forward. We jumped.
That feeling I had when I was in the water I shall never 18 . I was up and rushed again to the seaside.
So 19 my friends. We put on our clothes as quickly as possible and went home.
We four did not go to school the next three days, for we all 20 a bad cold. We missed the lessons,
but we had this unforgettable experience. | ( )1. A. object
( )2. A. interesting
( )3. A. what
( )4. A. worse
( )5. A. later
( )6. A. asking
( )7. A. swimming pool
( )8. A. only
( )9. A. cold
( )10. A. speak out
( )11. A. For
( )12. A. only
( )13. A. helped
( )14. A. such
( )15. A. go down
( )16. A. carefully
( )17. A. Last
( )18. A. remember
( )19. A. did
( )20. A. became | B. topic
B. lucky
B. how
B. ill
B. past
B. meeting
B. sands
B. though
B. warm
B. talk about
B. Instead
B. lucky
B. enjoyed
B. a little
B. go into
B. quickly
B. Next
B. forget
B. do
B. felt | C. opinion
C. happy
C. that
C. stronger
C. since
C. waiting
C. lake
C. even
C. hot
C. shout at
C. Sometimes
C. younger
C. dressed
C. very
C. jump into
C. bravely
C. When
C. believe
C. were
C. turned | D. center
D. surprising
D. why
D. better
D. before
D. looking
D. river
D. since
D. cool
D. think over
D. Unless
D. happy
D. changed
D. a bit
D. take off
D. finally
D. Then
D. tell
D. had
D. caught | | 阅读理解。 | I sat at my seat waiting for the school paper to be passed around. I waited anxiously, knowing that
once I received it I would know how good a writer I really am.
When the paper arrived at my classroom, I nearly knocked down five of my classmates to get to the
first paper. With a school paper in my hands, I returned to my seat. About a month earlier, I had handed
in one of, what I believed to be, my best stories. I named it Symbol of Success. The head of the English
Department at my school, Professor Cullen had said that she would include some reviews of students"
stories in the latest school paper. Professor Cullen was known for her rough criticism. Impressing her
was very hard but I wanted to be the first to do so.
I sat at the edge of my seat as I read through the other story reviews. There wasn"t one story that got
more than three stars .I became calm and wasn"t anxious to know my review. It was long after that I
heard someone shout out "Five stars?! Seriously !" from behind me. I turned around and saw the
shocked expression of Gene"s face, "Peter, your story got five stars!" I couldn"t believe what I was
hearing. I turned my attention back to my story and saw the five stars at the end of the review that I had
not read yet. I looked through the review written by Professor Cullen. She wrote that I had a gift for
story writing.
I was proud that I achieved what I thought was impossible .For so long I believed I wasn"t as good as
I thought I was and that my talent was not enough to cover up my lack of wring skills .But this review
proved that I was truly a good writer and that there was a future ahead of me in the field of fiction writing. The review and the five stars meant the world of me. Those five stars became the symbol of my success. | | 1. How did the writer get the school paper? | A. His teacher gave it to him first
B. The publisher sent it to him first
C. His friend helped him get the first one.
D. He rushed ahead to get the first one by himself. | | 2. What can we learn about Professor Cullen? | A. She was very gentle to everyone
B. She seldom praised her students.
C. She was very cold to her students.
D. She was respected by her students. | | 3. We can learn from this text that Peter_______. | A. had thought his story was better than those of others
B. was always anxious to know the review about him
C. didn"t know he got five stars until others told him
D. looked through a few stories that had got four stars | | 4. What did Professor Cullen think of Peter"s story? | A. She thought highly of it
B. She thought it was just so-so
C. She thought it was extremely bad
D. She doubted if it was written by him. | | 5. Why did the review and the five stars mean the world to Peter? | A. Because they helped him learn writing skills
B. Because they made him happy for some time
C. Because they helped him enter a key university
D. Because they made him see his writing talents. | | 阅读理解。 | What"s your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty
thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look
like ants?
It may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every
summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.
Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It
began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an
admission price of ￡1 - the ticket included free milk from the farm.
Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength - in 2004 one hundred and fifty
thousand fans attended, paying ￡112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold
out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as
well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.
Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event,
donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.
Glastonbury is not unique(独特的) in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty. In July
of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously (同时) in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight
international poverty and debt. | | 1. What does the author mean by saying "the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength"? | A. The festival has achieved growing success.
B. Great efforts have been made to hold the festival.
C. The festival has brought in a large amount of money.
D. There have been thousands of fans attending the festival. | | 2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? | A. The Glastonbury Festival is run on a profit-making basis.
B. Tickets for the 2004 Glastonbury Festival were in great demand despite the high price.
C. Both James Brown and Joss Stone were born in poor families.
D. In the 1970 Glastonbury Festival, one could have lunch on the farm for free. | | 3. We can learn from the last paragraph that _____. | A. the Glastonbury Festival is not so popular as the Live 8 concerts
B. the Live 8 concerts are held every year in London
C. London, Paris, Rome and Berlin are famous for outdoor music festivals
D. some superstars are concerned about global poverty | | 4. What is the best title for the passage? | A. How to have a good time
B. Charity events around the world
C. The Glastonbury Festival
D. Superstars" performances in charity events | 最新试题
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