题目内容
【来源】2017河北省石家庄市高三复习教学质量检测(二)
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When my sister Diane began playing the violin,she was seven.How did she sound?Terrible.But she didn’t___ ___At twelve,she asked our parents if she could___ ___a full-time music school.They said no.Actually,everyone agreed that my sister___ ___talent.
I was better at my___ ___.My teacher had told my parents that I had great___ ___.So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to___ ___me.But the only time he was___ ___was Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m.Back then,I was___ ___about the British TV show “The Avengers”,which was___ ___every Saturday at 3 p.m.I let nothing take up.my “Avengers”hour.So I___ ___this amazing opportunity.Today,I don’t even have a___ ___in my house.
My sister became an engineer,but she___ ___stopped making music.When she was in her 40s,she switched___ ___.She went back to college,got a(n)___ ___in music education,and became a music teacher.She starts kids out on their first instrument and gives them all the encouragement and support she never___ ___.
Recently,she and a pianist pal put on a recital.A big crowd of friends and family___ ___for her.As she played,I looked around at the___ ___.Everyone was__ ___enjoying the music.It occurred to me that I was the only person who remembered that 7-year-old kid making those perfectly___ __sounds and knew how far she had come,despite ____ ____.
Talent is important.But enthusiasm is even more important.
1.A. advance B. quit C. reflect D. listen
2.A. inspect B. open C. attend D. visit
3.A. lacked B. spotted C. possessed D. admired
4.A. major B. project C. composition D. instrument
5.A. patience B. enthusiasm C. potential D. ambition
6.A. train B. examine C. correct D. challenge
7.A. punctual B. skillful C. occupied D. available
8.A. sensitive B. crazy C. serious D. particular
9.A. filmed B. designed C. aired D. commented
10.A. jumped at B. turned down C. waited for D. opened up
11.A. tutor B. violin C. musician D. piano
12. A. never B. once C. already D. even
13. A. attitudes B. careers C. plans D. positions
14. A. scholarship B. sponsor C. degree D. assistant
15. A. provided B. imagined C. received D. expected
16. A. voted B. feared C. stayed up D. turned up
17. A. students B. audience C. spotlights D. platform
18. A. obviously B. desperately C. appropriately D. anxiously
19. A. booming B. pleasing C. awful D. powerful
20. A. everything B. something C. everybody D. somebody