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Robert Todd Duncan was born in 1903 in the southern city of Danville,Kentucky.His mother was his first music teacher.As a young man,he continued his music study in Indianapolis,Indiana.
In 1930,he completed more musical education at Columbia University in New York City.Then he moved to Washington.For fifteen years,he taught music at Howard University in Washington.At that time,not many black musicians were known for writing or performing classical music.Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population.He taught special ways to present the music.These special ways became known as the Duncan Technique.
Besides teaching,Duncan sang in several operas with performers who were all black.But it seemed that he always would be known mainly as a concert artist.However,his life took a different turn in the middle 1930s.At that time,the famous American music writer George Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work Porgy and Bess.The music critic (评论家) of the New York Times newspaper suggested Todd Duncan.Duncan had almost decided not to try for the part as he knew it would not be easy to get it.But he changed his mind.He sang a piece from an Italian opera for Gershwin.He had sung only a few minutes when Gershwin offered him the part.He became famous because of the part in Porgy and Bess.
Todd Duncan gained fame as an opera singer and concert artist.But his greatest love in music was teaching.When he stopped teaching at Howard,he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.
60.What is this passage mainly about?
A.What Robert Todd Duncan loved most.
B.How Robert Todd Duncan became famous.
C.Robert Todd Duncan and his works of music.
D.A brief introduction to Robert Todd Duncan.
61.According to Paragraph 2,while teaching at Howard University,Duncan________.
A.found special ways to present music
B.opened doors for other black classical singers
C.had the chance to know many famous black musicians
D.became known for writing and performing classical music
62.What happened to Duncan in the middle 1930s?
A.He gave up teaching at Howard University.
B.He was introduced by the New York Times in detail.
C.He was asked to be in charge of the opera Porgy and Bess.
D.He was given a big opportunity to become an opera singer.
63.We can infer that Robert Todd Duncan didn’t at first want to try for the part mainly because________.
A.he was too busy to do it
B.he was not interested in it
C.he was not confident enough
D.he didn’t want to become famous
本文介绍了美国音乐家Robert Todd Duncan。
60.D 主旨大意题。通读全文,可知是对美国音乐家Robert Todd Duncan的简介,故选D。
61.B 细节理解题。根据第二段的Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population.可知在霍华德大学教音乐,Duncan可以帮助别的黑人学习欧洲经典音乐,故选B。
62.D 细节理解题。通读第三段,可知1930年中旬,Duncan得到了一个唱歌剧的机会,故选D。
63.C 推理判断题。根据第三段的Duncan had almost decided not to try for the part as he knew it would not be easy to get it.可知Duncan一开始不想去尝试,是因为他觉得很难成功,说明他当时不是很相信自己能得到这个机会,故选C。
It’s difficult for doctors to help a person with a hurt brain. 36 enough blood, the brain can live only three to five minutes. Usually doctors can’t fix the hurt 37 such a short time.
Dr Robert White thinks he knows a 38 of help. He thinks doctors should make the hurt brain 39 to live for 30 minutes without blood. This gives the doctor 40 time to do something for the brain. Dr White experimented his 41 on fifteen monkeys. 42 he taught them to do different jobs. Then he operated on them. He made the monkeys’ blood go 43 a machine. When the brains’ 44 was 10℃, he stopped the blood to the brain. After 30 minutes, he turned the blood back on. He 45 the blood again. After their operations, the monkeys were almost 46 before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do the job the doctor 47 them.
Dr White’s idea works well on monkeys. He thinks it will work on 48 . He think it will help with heart problems. A person 49 die when his heart stops; doctors can 50 it again. The problem comes: when the brain is without blood for about 5 minutes, it 51 . If doctors start the heart again after 5 minutes, the person has 52 body but a dead brain. Maybe in the future, doctors will 53 Dr White’s idea. When the person’s heart stops the doctor will 54 cool the brain. They will have 30 minutes to start the heart again. Maybe there will be no 55 the brain.
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Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, "Look what I ____36_____." She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it caused me to ____37_____. "Mom, look! Isn't it ____38_____?" said my seven-year-old daughter. I ____39_____ the snake skin and thought that it really wasn't pretty. Everything children see ____40_____is full of beauty in their eyes; they see only ____41_____ and excellence in the world until educated.
"____42_____ did the snake do this?" Sarah asked. I tried to seize the ____43_____ to teach my children that there was almost always something beyond the obvious. I wanted to tell them that there was something else going on ____44_____ what they saw in front of them. "Snakes shed (蜕) their skin because they need to renew themselves," I ____45_____.
"Why do they have to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
My son Robert laughed and said, "Because they don't ____46_____ what they are and they want to be someone else." I politely ignored him and said that by shedding skins, we could ____47_____ the hidden reality.
"We often need to shed our skin, those coatings that we ____48_____ ourselves with," I said to my children, who listened very ____49_____, with their eyes wide open. "This snake ____50_____ needs this skin. It is probably too hard for him, or he probably doesn't think he looks as ____51_____in it as he once did. It's like buying a new ____52_____."
I'm sure this explanation will not ____53_____ the naturalists. But Sarah was getting to understand that renewal is part of ____54_____. She should learn from it what we need to keep and what we need to ____55_____.
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