题目内容
23. Often he _________ sit for hours doing nothing at all when he was in low spirits.
A.should |
B.would |
C.might |
D.Could |
B
【解析】略
There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala (瑞典一城市), a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays. This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read. Daae was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it. Not a violinist in Scandinavia played as he did. His reputation was widespread and he was always invited to set the couples dancing at weddings and other festivals. His wife died when Christine was entering upon her sixth year. Then the father, who cared only for his daughter and his music, sold his land and went to Upsala in search of fame and fortune. He found nothing but poverty.
He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.
When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.
Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.
【小题1】 When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.
A.work on his land | B.sing in the choir on Sundays |
C.make a fortune at weddings and festivals | D.teach his daughter how to sing |
A.hope for Daae and Christine | B.appreciation of Daae and Christine |
C.sympathy for Daae and Christine | D.love for Daae and Christine |
A.always sleepy | B.so homesick that he fell ill |
C.too busy teaching his daughter | D.willing to be locked up with his daughter |
A.the father made very good music |
B.the daughter sang like an angel from Heaven |
C.the father walked strangely with his daughter |
D.they appeared to be badly off but refused money offered |
Whenever his mother spoke to him, ____ was fairly often, he would talk on and on without giving her a chance to speak.
A.that |
B.what |
C.which |
D.who |
I was sitting in the surgical waiting area at the hospital waiting for word of my wife's operation. The small room was filled with other families and friends who were 36 waiting to hear how their loved ones were doing.
There was a young boy sitting quietly in the__37__.He held a small box of__38__in one hand and a tablet( 写字板)in the other. Every so often he'd place the tablet on his lap and draw something. As the hours passed I began to see the room almost__39__.And there was a strange silence.
“Daddy,when is Mommy going home?”the young boy asked,breaking the__40__.
“Tomorrow,”his father replied. The boy picked up his crayons and__41__something on the tablet.
I _42__him as he moved his feet back and forth,looking up at the ceiling and then toward the sunshine-filled window.“When's__43__,Daddy?”he asked. His father__44__him over to sit by him. “Come,_45__here next to me,”he said with a gentle tone in his voice.
__46__his things,the little boy walked slowly to his father's side from the corner.
The man_47__out and held his son by his shoulders.
“There are three days in life. Yesterday,today and tomorrow. One is over and done,one we live in,the other we__48__.We can't live in yesterday,but if we are happy enough today,we will be even happier tomorrow,”he said in an attempt to__49__the boy.
The little boy looked at him for a moment and said,“If Mommy is going home tomorrow,I'll be__50__. So,I want it to be tomorrow already, Daddy.”
Now hanging on every word of this__51__,I leaned forward to hear his response. It was__52__.
“Son,the one great thing about today is once it__53__,it is already almost tomorrow.”
I thought about how__54__it was. Even in my adult life. I still live waiting for what tomorrow may__55__.Now I know that it is already “almost tomorrow.”
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There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala (瑞典一城市), a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays. This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read. Daae was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it. Not a violinist in Scandinavia played as he did. His reputation was widespread and he was always invited to set the couples dancing at weddings and other festivals. His wife died when Christine was entering upon her sixth year. Then the father, who cared only for his daughter and his music, sold his land and went to Upsala in search of fame and fortune. He found nothing but poverty.
He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.
When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.
Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.
1. When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.
A.work on his land |
B.sing in the choir on Sundays |
C.make a fortune at weddings and festivals |
D.teach his daughter how to sing |
2.The 3rd sentence “He insisted …” in the 2nd paragraph showed Professor Valerius’ ______.
A.hope for Daae and Christine |
B.appreciation of Daae and Christine |
C.sympathy for Daae and Christine |
D.love for Daae and Christine |
3. While Daae was in Paris, he never went out of doors because he was ________.
A.always sleepy |
B.so homesick that he fell ill |
C.too busy teaching his daughter |
D.willing to be locked up with his daughter |
4. What made people curious about the father and daughter was that _______.
A.the father made very good music |
B.the daughter sang like an angel from Heaven |
C.the father walked strangely with his daughter |
D.they appeared to be badly off but refused money offered |