One day about 30 years ago, a 2 year-old Chinese boy in Shenyang was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon on TV. Tom the cat began to play the piano. The music was to beautiful that the boy fell in love with it at once. This little boy was Lang Lang – one of today’s great pianists.

Lang Lang began to play the piano at 3. By the age of 5, the had won fist place in Shenyang’s piano competition and performed his first public recital(独奏会). People were shocked by his perfect performance and thought he was a real talent. From that time on, playing on the global stage became the dream of Lang and his parents.

To help him much closer to his dream, when Lang was 9, his father quit his job and went with Lang to Beijing to help his son study piano. There, Lang did not receive the praise that he had received at home, and he experienced the hardest time of his life.

“I was kicked out of the class by my piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream,” Lang said in an interview on a Chinese TV program. Hearing about his son’s failure, Lang’s father was so furious(暴怒的) and frustrated(沮丧的) that he told Lang either to go back to Shenyang, or to commit suicide( 自杀). Feeling hopeless and in pain, Lang tried to damage his fingers by crushing(砸) them against a wall. He hated piano!

Luckily, another teacher noticed Lang’s sadness and encouraged him. Success came soon. Lang’s breakthrough came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at a well-known concert in 1999 in Chicago, US.

56. We can know from the first paragraph ______

A. Tom the cat came from Shenyang

B. Lang Lang could play the piano at the age of 2

C. Tom the cat got Lang Lang interested in piano

D. Jerry is 30 years old

57. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 3?

A. To give in       B. To give up

C. To give out      D. To be out of work

58. When did Lang’s breakthrough come?

A. At age 3.       B. At age 5.

C. At age 9.       D. At age 17.

One day about 30 years ago, a 2 year-old Chinese boy in Shenyang was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon on TV. Tom the cat began to play the piano. The music was to beautiful that the boy fell in love with it at once. This little boy was Lang Lang – one of today’s great pianists.

Lang Lang began to play the piano at 3. By the age of 5, the had won fist place in Shenyang’s piano competition and performed his first public recital(独奏会). People were shocked by his perfect performance and thought he was a real talent. From that time on, playing on the global stage became the dream of Lang and his parents.

To help him much closer to his dream, when Lang was 9, his father quit his job and went with Lang to Beijing to help his son study piano. There, Lang did not receive the praise that he had received at home, and he experienced the hardest time of his life.

“I was kicked out of the class by my piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream,” Lang said in an interview on a Chinese TV program. Hearing about his son’s failure, Lang’s father was so furious(暴怒的) and frustrated(沮丧的) that he told Lang either to go back to Shenyang, or to commit suicide( 自杀). Feeling hopeless and in pain, Lang tried to damage his fingers by crushing(砸) them against a wall. He hated piano!

Luckily, another teacher noticed Lang’s sadness and encouraged him. Success came soon. Lang’s breakthrough came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at a well-known concert in 1999 in Chicago, US.

36. We can know from the first paragraph ______

A. Tom the cat came from Shenyang

B. Lang Lang could play the piano at the age of 2

C. Tom the cat got Lang Lang interested in piano

D. Jerry is 30 years old

37. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 3?

A. To give in       B. To give up

C. To give out      D. To be out of work

38. When did Lang’s breakthrough come?

A. At age 3.        B. At age 5.

C. At age 9.        D. At age 17.

One day about 30 years ago, a 2 year-old Chinese boy in Shenyang was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon on TV. Tom the cat began to play the piano. The music was to beautiful that the boy fell in love with it at once. This little boy was Lang Lang – one of today’s great pianists.

Lang Lang began to play the piano at 3. By the age of 5, the had won fist place in Shenyang’s piano competition and performed his first public recital(独奏会). People were shocked by his perfect performance and thought he was a real talent. From that time on, playing on the global stage became the dream of Lang and his parents.

To help him much closer to his dream, when Lang was 9, his father quit his job and went with Lang to Beijing to help his son study piano. There, Lang did not receive the praise that he had received at home, and he experienced the hardest time of his life.

“I was kicked out of the class by my piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream,” Lang said in an interview on a Chinese TV program. Hearing about his son’s failure, Lang’s father was so furious(暴怒的) and frustrated(沮丧的) that he told Lang either to go back to Shenyang, or to commit suicide( 自杀). Feeling hopeless and in pain, Lang tried to damage his fingers by crushing(砸) them against a wall. He hated piano!

Luckily, another teacher noticed Lang’s sadness and encouraged him. Success came soon. Lang’s breakthrough came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at a well-known concert in 1999 in Chicago, US.

56. We can know from the first paragraph ______

A. Tom the cat came from Shenyang

B. Lang Lang could play the piano at the age of 2

C. Tom the cat got Lang Lang interested in piano

D. Jerry is 30 years old

57. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 3?

A. To give in       B. To give up

C. To give out      D. To be out of work

58. When did Lang’s breakthrough come?

A. At age 3.       B. At age 5.

C. At age 9.       D. At age 17.