47.
A. help B.
care
C. learn
D. inspire
SECTION C
Direction: Complete the
following passage by using one word that best fits the context.
As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark; the fear was very real and
caused me some uncomfortable moments.
Maybe it was the strange 48.______
things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that 49.______ me so much.
There was never total darkness, but a streetlight or passing car lights made
clothes hung over a chair take on the 50.______of a wild animal. Out of the
corner of my eye, I saw the curtains
seem to move when there was no 51._____. A tiny sound in the floor would seem a
hundred times louder than in the daylight. My 52.______ would run wild, and my
heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the "enemy"
would not discover me.
Perhaps another fear I had as a child was that of not being liked or 53._____
by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being
liked was a 54. _____one.
One of the processes of growing up is
being able to 55._____ and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that
frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION
Directions: There are 3 passages in
this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.
For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose
the answer that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
A
Think of some of your favorite singers. When
you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make
you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect
us in many ways - emotionally, physically and mentally.
But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening
to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known
American opera star Carol Vaness.
At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she
often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand
people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even
when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is
the way she breathes.
“When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking
a deep breath before going underwater, ” Carol explains. “You have to take a
lot of air into your lungs.”
According to Carol, the main
difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you
take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like
speaking, and it’s a lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often
surprised by how the vibrations(震动) strike their ears - like waves on a beach, ” Carol
says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth - it vibrates in
your chest, the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”
Ever since she started piano lessons at the
age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a
music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of
her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an
exceptionally beautiful soprano voice – the highest singing voice for women.
Carol decided to make opera her goal, not
only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a
play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The
stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about
two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived
long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions expressed by words
and music come to life.
Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe
and she has sung for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she
started singing in the first palace.
“Put your heart into your singing and enjoy
it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact,
that’s why everybody sings.”
