I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old. My brother and his friends were all ___36____ of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday. When they ___37____ that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought ____38___ for performance. However, at the last minute, once of the friends couldn’t go, so my brother __39_____ me the ticket. I was really ___40____!

    I remember the buzz (嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our __41____ . After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became ___42____. I could barely make out the stage in the ___43____. We waited. Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band ___44____ the stage. My brother leaned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn’t ____45___ what he was saying. The first song was already starting and the music was as ____46___ a jet engine. I could ___47____ the drum beats and bass notes in my stomach.

I can’t recall any of the songs that the band played. I just __48_ that I really enjoyed the show and didn’t want it to _ 49_. But in the end, after three encores (加演), the show finished. We left the  50_ and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement. I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just  51_from a long sleep. My ears were still 52_with the beat of the last song.

After the 53 , I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music. Once in a while, 54_, I listen to one of their songs and 55_I’m back at that first show.

1. A. members    B. friends      C. fans          D. volunteers

2. A. guessed     B. discovered   C. thought        D. predicted

3.A. flowers     B. drinks       C. clothes         D. tickets

4.A. booked      B. offered      C. returned        D. found

5. A. relaxed      B. embarrassed   C. excited         D. encouraged

6. A. seats        B. entrance      C. spots          D. space

7.A. comfortable   B. quite         C. serious         D. nervous

8.A. silence       B. noise         C. darkness        D. smoke

9.A.fell upon    B.got through     C.broke into     D.stepped onto

10.A.forget       B.hear            C. repeat         D. bear

11. A.loud         B.heard           C. sweet          D. fast

12.A.feel         B.touch           C. enjoy          D. digest

13. A.realize      B.understand      C.believe         D. remember

14.A.continue     B.delay           C.finish          D. change

15. A.party        B.theatre         C. opera          D. stage

16. A.escaped      B.traveled        C. benefited      D. woken

17. A.aching       B.burning         C. ringing        D. rolling

18. A.competition   B. performance     C. interview      D. celebration

19. A.through      B.otherwise       C. instead        D. besides

20. A.decide       B.regret          C. conclude       D. imagine

 

No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生) and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep,and when he awakes,the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new.It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.

   Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down(压制,控制) on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.

   Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called “laughing gas”.Laughing gas became known in America.Young men and women went to parties to try it.Most of them spent their time laughing,but one man at a party,Horace Wells,noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas.He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.

   Wells took some of the gas,and his friend pulled out one of Well’s teeth.Wells felt no pain at all.

   As he didn't know enough about laughing gas,he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.

   Wells tried again,but this time he gave too much of the gas,and the man died.Wells never forgot this terrible event.

1.It is ____ since a man being operated felt all the pain.

   A. a few more years   B. not long    C. few years     D. two thousand years

2.Long ago,when the sick man was operated on, he ____.

   A. could feel nothing           B. could not want anything

   C. could feel all the pain        D. could do anything

3.Using the laughing gas,the people did not seem to ____.

   A. be afraid of anything    B. feel pain   C. want to go to the parties    D. be ill

4.If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on,he _.

   A.felt nothing  B. felt very comfortable  C.still felt pain      D.would die

5. One who took too much of the laughing gas ___.

   A.would laugh all the time       B.would die 

C.would never feel pain         D.would be very calm

 

 

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