第1题:
A
Jay Chou was born on January 18, 1979, in Taiwan, China. He grew up with his mother, and was a quiet and shy kid. He didn’t do well in study, so people thought he would never be successful in life.
As a small child, Jay took a great interest in music.His mother sent lum to learn the piano when he was only three years-old He loved it and kept on practicing. When he was in high school, he could play the piano quite well. At the same time, he showed his talent for writing songs.
Before Jay became a singer, he worked as a songwriter. For two years, he spent most of his time writing for singers. Some of them were very famous, like Coco Lee and Jacky Cheung. Jay released(友行) his first album(专辑) in 2000 and soon he got quite popular.
Now Jay is one of the most famous singers in Asia. However, he is still shy and doesn't smile often He isn’t good-looking and doesn’t speak clearly when he sings or talks, but he has a lot of fans. Most of his fans like him because he is really good at music and never follows others.
( )21. When Jay Chou was a small kid,_________-
④he was quiet and shy②he lived with his parents③he didn't study well④he loved music
第2题:
About 150 years ago,a musician sat quietly at a concert in Vienna. He was playing his new symphony. He couldn‘t (11) that the audience were clapping wildly. He was deaf. He was Beethoven,one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.
Beethoven wrote about 300 (12) of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces after he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But it is even worse for a musician than for (13) else. Think of not being able to hear the music you have written!
As a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father drank (14) .When the boy was only four,his father decided to make a musician (15) him. Hour after hour he had to practice (16) the violin. He learned so fast that he was able to make a concert tour when he was eleven. When he was seventeen,the great Mozart praised him. After he studied with Haydn. Beethoven was writing a great deal of music (17) .
Beethoven had an ugly face and a bad temper. He was often invited (18) the homes of wealthy people. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him become deaf when he was (19) thirty-one.
Beethoven wrote long pieces and short ones,gentle ones and (20) ones.
A. hear
B. listen
C. listen to
D. hear of
第3题:
A、set aside
B、set out
C、set back
D、set off
第4题:
Peter liked music very much when he was at school, but when he went to the university,he decided to study medicine instead. After he passed the examinations and became a doctor, he had to work in a hospital for some time. There he discovered that a lot of patients were happier and less worried about their illnesses if they could hear pleasant music. When Peter became a surgeon and began to work for himself, he decided to keep his patients happy by having a tape recorder in his waiting room, playing beautiful music for them. But soon after the tape recorder was put in the waiting room, Peter’s nurse heard a woman who was sitting in the crowded waiting room one morning complain, "Here we’re all waiting to see the doctor, and he’s just playing the piano in his office instead of doing his work!"
31. Peter liked music when he was at school.
A. T B. F
32. Peter had to pass some examinations after he became a doctor.
A. T B. F
33. Peter decided to play music for his patients because he couldn’t leave music.
A. T B. F
34. Peter put a recorder in his waiting room.
A. T B. F
35. The woman complained because she thought Peter wasn’t working.
A. T B. F
第5题:
When William hurried home, he found that his mother ____already ____to hospital.
A、has; been sent
B、had; sent
C、has; sent
D、had; been sent
第6题:
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第8题:
第9题:
When Rip Van Winkle woke up and went back to his village,he found he had slept in the hill for()
第10题:
10 years
20 years
50 years
None of the above
第11题:
To suggest that he had to write in order to make a living
To suggest that he became a writer because of his father’s influence
To provide the background and cultural context for his literary work
To provide evidence that his literary genius was present when he was a child
To explain his opposition to Catholicism and socialism in his later life
第12题:
Hardly he has found
No sooner had he found
Not until did he find
When he found
第13题:
B
Jim was a waiter. He liked to grow flowers in his garden when he was free. One Sunday morning after breakfast he put on his old clothes and began digging(挖) in his garden at 8. He dug and dug. Half an hour later he suddenly found a coin near his foot. He was very glad. He put it in his right pocket. A few minutes later,he found anotherone. He picked it up and p...hit in the same pocket.The same thing happened for the third,the fourth and the fifth time…: He was very happy and told his wife about it. She was very happy,too. She said,"A thief took away a lot of coins from a shop a few days ago. The police caught him but they didn't find any coins. Then Jim went on digging some coins,but just when he began to dig,he felt something cold in his trousers... It ran down one of his legs. He put his hand down quickly and the coin came into his hand. Now he knew there was a hole in his right pocket.
( )26. There were some _________ in Jim's garden.
A.flowers
B.coins
C.people
D.trees
第14题:
A、of
B、in
C、from
D、after
第15题:
A、does
B、is
C、do
D、did
第16题:
A.sands...was
B.sand...were
C.sand...was
D.sands...were
第17题:
He moved to Philadelphia because______.
A.his brother didn’t like him
B.he became the editor of the paper
C.he wanted to be dependent
D.he wanted to live on himself
第18题:
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第20题:
When Rip Van Winkle woke up and went back to his village,he found he had slept in the hill for()
A10 years
B20 years
C50 years
DNone of the above
第21题:
and that was when he found out
and then he discovered
when he discovered
after which he discovered
discovering soon thereafter
第22题:
ingenious
creativeC .empirical
furious
第23题:
on the highway
at home
in a shopping center
in a hospital