题目内容
My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon. I tried as hard as I could to remain 36 , but I had an empty feeling in my stomach. I stared down at my sweat covered, 37 hands. I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were 38 people. They were not just my mum and dad, who 39 say, "Good job!" even if I messed up the entire piece. What if I had the wrong music? What if I played the wrong notes? As it 40 , I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight was 41 for me. I grasped my hands tightly together, drying off the sweat. Slowly I walked to the mulberry piano in the 42 of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys, which were waiting impatiently to be played.I swallowed the golf ball-sized lump(隆起的) in my throat and sat down. 43 , I opened the music. Next, I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory keys. As my fingers played across the keys, I was becoming more 44 of my preparation for this moment. But the memory of my year of training came flooding back. I knew that I had practiced this piece 45 that I could play it backwards if 46 . Although at one point I accidentally played two keys 47 the intended one, I continued to move my fingers automatically (自动的). My eyes burned holes into the page in front of me. There was no 48 that I was going to lose my concentration. To keep this promise to myself, I leaned 49 and focused carefully on the music. 50 1 came to the end of the page, a warning 51 inside my head: DON' T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU TURN THE PAGE! Needless to say, I 52 myself with all my heart and mind.And, proud of my "page- turning" feat(技艺) I finished the 53 of the piece without making a single mistake. After the final note died away, a celebration went into action 54 my head.1 had finished.I had mastered (征服)the
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36. A.unknown | B. still | C. calm | D. quiet |
37. A. shaking | B. moving | C. waving | D. wandering |
38. A. true | B. real | C. young | D. old |
39. A. will | B. can | C. could | D. would |
40. A. turned out | B. turned up | C. turned back | D.turned down |
41. A. looking | B. searching | C. expecting | D. waiting |
42. A. comer | B. cross | C. center | D. passage |
43. A. Slowly | B. Happily | C. Quickly | D. Suddenly |
44. A. sure | B. unsure | C. certain | D. confident |
45. A. so much time | B. so hardly | C. such a lot of time | D. so many times |
46. A. requested | B. told | C. demanded | D.ordered |
47. A. in spite of | B. instead of | C. in the way of | D. in the shape of |
48. A. way | B. need | C. use | D. sense |
49. A. backward | B. forward | C. upward | D. downward |
50. A. Then | B. Next | C. When | D. While |
51. A. appeared | B. had | C. raised | D. went |
52. A. told | B. asked | C.obeyed | D.refused |
53. A. other | B. part | C. left | D. rest |
54. A. inside | B. outside | C. out of | D. on |
55. A. musical | B. piece | C. impossible | D. possible |
36--40 CABDA 41―45 DCABD 46―50 ABABC 51―55 ACDAC
For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5:30 a.m., except Sunday, and went to work. I__41__saw my father home from work ill. He had no hobbies, __42__taking care of his family.
For 22 years, __43__I left home for college, my father__44__me every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.. He was always interested in my__45__,or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__46__about his lot (生活状况) in life. The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states.
Nine years ago when I__47__my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent three days__48__my house. He would not__49__me to pay someone to have it done. All he __50__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him. But I was too__51__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__52__to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__ 53__things happened several times later.
The morning on Sunday. January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me__54__,this time from my sister’s home in Florida. But the__55__came again at 4:40 p.m. that day. My father was in the__56__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤).I got on an airplane__57__, and on the way, I__58__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I determined that when I arrived, I would__59__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him.
I arrived in Florida at 11:30 p.m., my father had__ 60__at 9:12 p.m.. This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me.
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A.ever | B.never | C.always | D.often |
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A.except | B.rather than | C.more than | D.or rather |
A.because | B.before | C.although | D.since |
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A.visited | B.praised | C.telephoned | D.met |
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A.work | B.life | C.study | D.plan |
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A.worry | B.care | C.talk | D.look |
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A.built | B.found | C.bought | D.sold |
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A.repairing | B.painting | C.cleaning | D.decorating |
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A.teach | B.order | C.force | D.allow |
A.asked | B.kept | C.ordered | D.served |
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A.smart | B.upset | C.busy | D.tired |
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A.practice | B.task | C.tea | D.time |
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A.Different | B.Similar | C.Funny | D.Strange |
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A.as usual | B.in pain | C.casually | D.finally |
A.call | B.moment | C.situation | D.scene |
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A.church | B.school | C.home | D.hospital |
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A.immediately | B.happily | C.gradually | D.carefully |
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A.heard | B.spoke | C.thought | D.demanded |
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A.take up | B.make up | C.turn up | D.put up |
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A.started out | B.given in | C.passed away | D.come back |