10. He was interested in all          (方面) of the work here.

9. The scientist        (观察) the behaviour of the mice after they were given the drug.

4. You can hardly imagine how      (delight) I felt when I heard the       (delight) news that I had got the first prize.

书面表达请根据以下内容，以“Chopin—a great musician”为题，写一篇100词左右的英语短文，介绍著名的音乐家肖邦。内容包括： 

1.肖邦是世界闻名的作曲家和钢琴家。他一生创作了近200首深受人们喜爱的乐曲。1810年，肖邦出生于波兰。

2.肖邦最初接触音乐是跟随母亲学钢琴。到六岁时，肖邦创作出了一系列作品，充分展现了他非凡的音乐天赋。

3. 16岁时，肖邦进人华沙音乐学院学习，师从德国音乐家约瑟夫.艾尔斯内(J6zef Eisner) 。

4.离开华沙音乐学院后，肖邦到了当时的音乐圣地——维也纳。在那里，他不仅举办了多场音乐会，还发表了不少音乐作品。

5. 1849年，肖邦逝世于巴黎的寓所中，结束了短短39年的生命。参考词汇：作品composition 华沙音乐学院the Warsaw Conservatory of Music 寓所 dwelling

M： Now we have five-day classes every week,

26.         we have more spare time than before.

W： Yeah. How do you spend your spare time,Timmy?

M：I have 27.         interest in playing the violin and I’ll continue to practise 28.        (play) it.

W ： Do you often go to a concert?

M：Yes,I like listening to music. At present my major 29.         (object) is to learn from others.

W ： Do you like classical music 30.         pop music?

M： I like both. 31.         do you spend your spare time then,Lily?

W ： Playing the piano is my 32.         activity.

M： Our 33.         (  hobby) are similar to each other. I hope we can often exchange experience together.

W： So 34.         I，but I’m weak in the theory of music.

M： Me,too. Would you like 35.         (go) with me to my uncle’s? He’s a professor at the Institute of Music. 

W ： I，d be glad to go with you. I will ask him for advice.

   Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her 6         concert. She had been waiting for this 7         for years and years. “Now it is here at last，” she thought. “ How beautiful her 8 is!”

The song made her 9         to the days when she was at Lauren’s 10        . As a young 11        ，Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied 12         inFrance,Italyand in theUnited States. “You can become a fine 13         in the future，” her teachers told her. “But you must be 14         to study hard and work for many years. There will be 15         time for anything but music in your life. ”

Dorothy was 16         at that time and she was 17         that music was all she wanted or needed to 18         her life. For almost a year Dorothy 19         of nothing else. Then she 20         David，a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in 21         David asked her to be his 22        . Dorothy also wanted to

marry David. But she loved 23        ，too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer.

He said，“If you want to be a singer,you must forget about getting married. You can’t 24         do both. ”

Thus her days were gone and would never return. Now Lauren became a singer instead of her,which was her 25        .

6.  A. last   B. successful

   C.  first   D. wonderful

7. A.  dance   B. moment       C.show   D. party

8. A. voice   B. face       C.dress   D. life

9. A.  think of   B. bring back

   C.go back   D. come back

10. A.  age   B. friend   C. mother   D. teacher

11. A.  musician   B. pop star

   C.  lady   D. girl

12. A.  French   B. music   C. piano   D. dance

13. A.  actress   B. student   C. singer   D. dancer

14. A.  prepared   B. learned   C. driven   D. waited

15. A.  some   B. any   C. no   D. enough

16. A.  eight   B. eighteen

   C.  eighty   D. eighty-eight

17. A.  lucky   B. sure       C.afraid   D. fond

18. A.  fill   B. live   C. lead   D. take

19. A.  heard   B. knew       C.talked   D. thought

20. A.  saw off   B. learned from

   C.  heard of   D. met

21. A.  love   B. feeling   C. music   D. touch

22. A.  assistant   B. teacher   C. wife   D. student

23. A.  him   B. engineering

   C.herself   D. music

24. A.  certainly   B. possibly   C. only   D. mainly

25. A.  thought   B. hope   C. purpose   D. will

Do you like singing? Nowadays we often hear of people talking about karaoke. But what on earth it is about still remains a question for many people.

Karaoke is a sort of acoustic equipment which was invented inJapanaround the middle of the 1970s. It means “a band without people” in Japanese. In fact,it is just a music tape without words. This equipment first appeared in some public houses and snack bars,and mainly for the customers to enjoy themselves. Most of the music in karaoke was popular music. Therefore,at times,when anyone felt like it,he might sing songs to the accompaniment(伴奏) of the music that came from the equipment.

Shortly after its invention,karaoke was spread to the whole world. It was introduced toChinaand was welcomed by many people. Although you are not a good singer,or even sometimes you may sing out of tune,you can always enjoy yourself by singing karaoke.

1. The underlined word “band” means a group of persons        .

   A. who play music together

   B.  who play games on the sports ground

   C.  living in the same neighbourhood

   D.  doing things together under a leader and with a common purpose

2. Karaoke is just a        .

   A. band fromJapan

   B.  cassette tape recorder

   C.  cassette tape with only music

   D.  voice recording equipment

3. People went to public houses and snack bars when karaoke appeared.

   A. to have a good time

   B.  to have something to drink

   C.  to get something to eat

   D.  to buy the equipment

4. Karaoke was spread to the whole world         .

   A. as soon as it was invented  

   B.  long ago

   C.  not long after it was invented

   D.  before long

5. The main idea of this passage is         .

   A. all persons like to play karaoke

   B.  to introduce karaoke to the people

   C.  karaoke is a sort of wonderful acoustic equipment

   D.  karaoke is used everywhere including snack bars

  Today,at 28,the young German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is at the top. “She gives radiance(光辉)  to the music，” wrote Geoffrey Norris in The Daily Telegraph , London. Mutter is also one of the world’s youngest professors.

Born in Rheinfelden on June 29，1963，Anne-Sophie grew up in Wehr,a small town just five kilometres from the Swiss border. Her father,Karl Wilhelm Mutter,and her mother,Gerlinde,considered music lessons part of a good education. Thus,their first son,Andreas,began practising the violin at eight,and his younger brother,Christopher,had piano lessons. It came as no surprise when Anne-Sophie said she wanted a violin for her fifth birthday.

Her parents thought she was too young for the violin,and persuaded her to start on the piano. But Anne-Sophie has always had a mind of her own. “I longed to play the violin，”she said. “It seemed to me a much more interesting instrument. ”After six months，her parents gave in.

The famous violin teacher Erna Honigberger，who lived nearby,became Anne-Sophie’s tutor(家庭教师)   . After only nine months of lessons,she entered the six-year-old in a nationwide competition for young musicians. With Christopher accompanying(伴奏)   her on the piano,Anne-Sophie won the first prize.

In 1974,Erna Honigberger died. Anne-Sophie’s new teacher was Aida Stucki. She taught Anne-Sophie to develop her own ideas on how a piece should be played,not just to imitate(模仿) others. This is one of the violinist’s strongest,most distinctive characteristics today.

Though the Mutters were short of money at times,they limited their daughter’s performances to once or twice a year. “We are glad we went the family road，”said her father. “No outsider can ever have an effect on our daughter’s career or push her into playing more concerts than she wants to. ” Later she was allowed to give six to eight concerts a year and make some recordings. Only when she turned 18 did she begin her professional career.

1. It was         when Anne-Sophie asked for a violin.

   A. surprising

   B.  great

   C.  usual

   D.  possible

2. Anne-Sophie’s career dates back to         .

   A. the late 1960s

   B.  her family education

   C.  the early 1980s

   D.  her fifth birthday

3. Anne-Sophie’s concerts are         .

   A. limited to once or twice a year

   B.  accompanied on the piano by Christopher

   C.  highly praised throughout the world

   D.  appreciated by professors

4. Which sentence shows Anne-Sophie’s strong point as a violinist?

   A. She wanted a violin for her fifth birthday.

   B.  She has always had a mind of her own.

   C.  She had two famous violin teachers.

   D.  Violin seemed to her a much more interesting instrument.

5. The virtue(美德)   the Mutters have is that they believe         .

   A. children should learn music

   B.  money is not everything

   C.  Anne-Sophie was too young to give concerts

   D.  parents have a great effect upon their children

  Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion(打击乐)  in Scotland. In an interview，she recalled how she became a percussion soloist in spite of her disability.

“Early on I decided not to allow the 1     of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeastScotlandand began 2      piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got,the more my passion for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 3      . Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the 4      and by age twelve,I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 5      me. ”

“My 6      was to become a percussion soloist,even though there were

none at that time. To perform,I 7      to ‘hear’ music differently from others.

I play in my stocking feet and can 8      the pitch of a note(音调高低)  by the vibrations(振动) I feel through my body and through my 9      . My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every 10      that I have. ”

“I was 11      to be assessed(评定)  as a musician,not as a deaf musician,and I applied (申请)  to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London.  No other deaf student had 12      this before and some teachers 13      my admission. Based on my performance,I was 14      admitted and went on to 15      with the academy’s highest honours. ”

“After that,I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I 16      and arranged a lot of musical compositions since  17      had been writ ten specially for solo percussionists. ”

“I have been a soloist for over ten years. 18      the doctor thought I was totally deaf,it didn’t 19      that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 20      by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go to. ”

1. A.  conditions   B. opinions   C. actions   D. suggestions

2. A.  enjoying   B. choosing   C. taking   D. giving

3. A.  sight   B. hearing   C. touch   D. taste

4. A.  evidence   B. result   C. excuse   D. cause

5. A. left   B. excited   C. accompanied   D. disappointed

6.  A. purpose   B. decision   C. promise   D. goal

7. A.  turned   B. learned   C. used   D. ought

8.  A. tell   B. see   C. hear   D. smell

9. A.  carefulness   B. movement   C. imagination   D. experience

10. A.  sense   B. effort   C. feeling   D. idea

11. A. dissatisfied   B. astonished   C. determined   D. discouraged

12. A.  done   B. accepted   C. advised   D. admitted

13. A.  supported   B. followed   C. required   D. opposed

14. A. usually   B. finally   C. possibly   D. hopefully

15. A.  study   B. research   C. graduate   D. progress

16. A.  wrote   B. translated   C. copied   D. read

17. A.  enough   B. some   C. many   D. few

18. A.  However   B. Although   C. When   D. Since

19. A.  mean   B. seem   C. conclude   D. say

20. A.  directed   B. guided   C. taught   D. limited

5. I had just stepped out of the bathroom and was busily drying myself with a towel while I heard the steps.