阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Robby was 11 when his mother dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students to begin at an earlier age. Robby said that it had always been his mother’s dream to hear him play the piano, so I took him on as a student.

Robby tried and tried while I listened and encouraged him and gave him more instructions. But he just did not have any inborn ability.

I only saw his mother from a distance. She always waved and smiled but never came in.  Then one day Robby stopped coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him but I guessed he had decided to try something else.

I was also glad that he stopped coming for the sake of my career. However, several weeks before the recital (演奏会) of my students, Robby came,telling me that he never stopped practicing and begged me to allow him to take part in it. I agreed, but I made him perform last in the program, so I could save his poor performance through my “curtain closer”.

I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen one piece of Mozart’s. Never had I heard a piece of Mozart’s played so well by someone at his age. When he finished, everyone was cheering.

I ran up and put my arms around Robby in joy. “I’ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How could you do it?”

“Well, Miss Hondorf. Do you remember I told you my mom was sick? Actually she died this morning. She was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she could hear me play. I wanted to make it special. I knew I could.”

That night, Robby was the teacher and I was the student. He taught me so many important things about life.

Why might Robby have stopped coming to piano lessons suddenly?

A. He lost heart and believed that he would never make it.

B. His mother might have been seriously ill.

C. He thought that his teacher disliked him.

D. His mother died and he didn’t need to play any longer.

We can know from the passage that __________.

A. the writer thought students shouldn’t begin playing the piano too early

B. the writer thought that Robby had given up his piano lessons

C. only by practicing at home did Robby learn to play well

D. no one else could play the piece of Mozart’s as well as Robby

From the underlined sentence, we can infer that _________.

A. the writer looked down upon Robby and disliked him

B. the writer thought Robby was a bad advertisement for her teaching

C. with Robby in the recital, the other children couldn’t play well

D. the writer couldn’t teach so many students at a time

The writer made Robby perform last because _________.

A. the one who performs last always performs very well

B. Robby asked the writer to do so

C. she wanted to do something to save a poor performance

D. Robby thought his mother would come at last

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(ABCD)中,选出可以填入空白的最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

Preparing for tomorrow

    Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth-grade on the    36  .They quickly protested that the words were not on their   37    and they couldn’t learn them.

    Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these   38   .She said that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton   39     by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to   40   , maybe even be president someday, and she wanted to prepare them for that day.

    Ms.Shelton spoke those words many years ago.  41    did she know that someday one of her students—Jesse Jackson—would take them   42   .She believed that if they were well prepared, they could   43   high goals.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “People only see what they are   44    to see.” If that’s true, then it is also    45    that they only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life are just about getting ready.

    “I want to be doing something more    46    with my life than what I am doing now,” a young man once said to me.He    47    what he was doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as, “I only    48    I had a meaningful relationship.” And, “I’d really like to get a better job, but I just don’t see    49    .”

    You fill in the blanks.What is it you would like to    50    that isn’t happening? Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet   51   .Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you   52  

    Think of today as another chance to   53   yourself for the exciting future you are looking for.Today is not wasted.If you desire more from   54   , then you can use today as training.For you will experience only what you are prepared to    55   .Something wonderful can happen.And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.

A.desk    B.wall C.chalkboard   D.door

A.duty    B.desk C.mind D.level

A.words   B.grammars C.pronunciations   D.sentences

A.started B.ended    C.warned   D.reminded

A.greatness   B.wealth   C.honor    D.failure

A.Seldom B.Little   C.Hardly   D.Totally

A.nervously   B.eagerly  C.seriously    D.simply

A.keep    B.have C.set  D.achieve

A.prepared    B.forced   C.attracted    D.tempted

A.proper  B.exact    C.legal    D.true

A.difficult   B.significant  C.pleasant D.interesting

A.boasted B.behaved  C.felt D.  looked

A.wish    B.expect   C.hope D.imagine

A.what    B.when C.why  D.how

A.survive B.happen   C.gain D.win

A.adventurous B.active   C.ready    D.intelligent

A.concern B.arrange  C.adore    D.desire

A.prepare B.enjoy    C.imagine  D.conduct

A.history B.nature   C.life D.marriage

A.suffer        B.experience     C.struggle       D.work

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