Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit,however ,that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer begins,how he manages to keep going一in fact,how and where he learns his trade—all are covered in complete darkness. The composer,in short,is a man of mystery(神秘) .

One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration(灵感) plays in a composer’s work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all. Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.

The composer,therefore,does not say to himself,“Do I feel inspired?”

He says to himself,“Do I feel like working today?” And if he feels like working,he does. It is more or less like saying to himself, “Do I feel sleepy?” If you feel sleepy,you go to sleep. If you don’t feel sleepy,you stay up. If the composer doesn’t feel like working,he doesn’t work. It’s as simple as that.

1. What would be the best title for the text?

   A. Composer: a man of mystery

   B.  Practice makes good music

   C. Relation between sleeping and music

   D.  Music: product of nature

2. The underlined words “covered in complete darkness” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean “      

   A. difficult to be made   B. without any light

   C.  black in colour   D. not known

3. Most people seem to think that a composer          .

   A. finds it difficult to write music

   B.  considers it important to have a good rest

   C.  should like to talk about inspiration

   D.  never asks himself very simple questions

4. The author will most probably agree that composers       .

   A. are born with a gift for music

   B.  are people full of mystery

   C.  work late at night for their music

   D.  know a lot about eating and sleeping

   Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her 6         concert. She had been waiting for this 7         for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “ How beautiful her 8 is!”

The song made her 9         to the days when she was at Lauren’s 10        . As a young 11        ,Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied 12         inFrance,Italyand in theUnited States. “You can become a fine 13         in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be 14         to study hard and work for many years. There will be 15         time for anything but music in your life. ”

Dorothy was 16         at that time and she was 17         that music was all she wanted or needed to 18         her life. For almost a year Dorothy 19         of nothing else. Then she 20         David,a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in 21         David asked her to be his 22        . Dorothy also wanted to

marry David. But she loved 23        ,too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer.

He said,“If you want to be a singer,you must forget about getting married. You can’t 24         do both. ”

Thus her days were gone and would never return. Now Lauren became a singer instead of her,which was her 25        .

6.  A. last   B. successful

   C.  first   D. wonderful

7. A.  dance   B. moment       C.show   D. party

8. A. voice   B. face       C.dress   D. life

9. A.  think of   B. bring back

   C.go back   D. come back

10. A.  age   B. friend   C. mother   D. teacher

11. A.  musician   B. pop star

   C.  lady   D. girl

12. A.  French   B. music   C. piano   D. dance

13. A.  actress   B. student   C. singer   D. dancer

14. A.  prepared   B. learned   C. driven   D. waited

15. A.  some   B. any   C. no   D. enough

16. A.  eight   B. eighteen

   C.  eighty   D. eighty-eight

17. A.  lucky   B. sure       C.afraid   D. fond

18. A.  fill   B. live   C. lead   D. take

19. A.  heard   B. knew       C.talked   D. thought

20. A.  saw off   B. learned from

   C.  heard of   D. met

21. A.  love   B. feeling   C. music   D. touch

22. A.  assistant   B. teacher   C. wife   D. student

23. A.  him   B. engineering

   C.herself   D. music

24. A.  certainly   B. possibly   C. only   D. mainly

25. A.  thought   B. hope   C. purpose   D. will

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