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An unusual group of musicians from the land of Mozart have just started a nine-day European tour.
The First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra (管弦乐队) from Austria contains eight musicians, one sound technician and one cook.
This mix of people may seem strange until you know the orchestra play instruments they have carved (雕刻) out of vegetables. At the end of the performance, the cook cuts up the instruments and makes a tasty vegetable soup for the audience.
It takes the band about half an hour to make a carrot flute (长笛). Other instruments include eggplant cymbals (茄子铙钹) and pumpkin (南瓜) drums. Microphones make the vegetable sounds loud enough for the audience to hear.
"The audience has the possibility of enjoying what they just heard," the band said. "We employ a real cook for the preparation of the soup so it is indeed tasty and very special."
34. Which of the following should be the best title of the passage?
A. A Special Orchestra B. Uses of Vegetables
C. A Special Meal D. Eatable Instruments
35. From this passage we can infer that ______.
A. all the musical instruments are made by a cook
B. vegetables can be excellent materials for musical instruments
C. the shapes and sizes of the vegetables decide what kind of instrument they will be made into
D. the cook makes the band famous and particular
36. The sound technician ______.
A. helps to make sounds
B. makes the instruments to be used at the concert
C. operates the electrical sound equipments to make the music loud enough
D. tests the quality of the musical instruments to be used by the orchestra
37. The passage intends to tell us that ______.
A. vegetables can be very useful materials B. common things can be made into things of fun
C. the orchestra has made a great discovery D. the band is popular with epicures (美食家)
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Gordon Summer is an exceptionally good-looking man admired by millions and so 1 he can afford all he could ever wish for. Better known 2 Sting, he's the lead singer of 3 .
Suddenly Sting has become a 4 . “I can' t walk down a street any more without feeling that people are watching me . ”he says .
“When I'm not 5 , all I want to do is to be a 6 person. I make a point of walking round the street, just being 7 .”
He and Frances bought the house in 8 when Sting returned from The Police' s highly successful world tour .
“I picked Ireland because , apart from being 9 , you can stay in touch with 10 while enjoying life at a slower 11 ! ” He also has Irish ancestry(祖先) and an Irish 12 , Frances , a well-accepted actress.
Sting is very much a man of the eighties: “Frances 13 to be considered as merely my wife, 14 I'm glad about. She has her own 15 . She's ambitious(雄心勃勃的)and talented, but she has never let it 16 her. It's always been that way. When we got married and had Joseph, ”explains Sting, “we both agreed that being 17 was not going to affect our work . ”
A fixed 18 life is obviously important to Sting. It remains the one constant factor in a world that has changed completely for him since he 19 a job in teaching for the music business . Sting loved teaching, but could not help playing in bands . So he tried to do both , teaching by day, playing by night . It left him so 20 that he knew he had to choose one or the other.
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