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    The young violin player Vanessa-Mae was the first musician to use dance and rock music in classical (古
典的) music. Vanessa-Mae love pop music, and she was also a very good classical violinist, and she brought
these kinds of music together. Vanessa-Mae was born in Singapore on October 27, 1978. She moved to
London with her family when she was four. A year later, she started to learn the violin. When she was eight,
she went to Beijing to study the violin. When she was ten, she played with a very famous group of classical
musicians. But Vanessa-Mae doesn't only play the violin. She learnt the piano before she started to play the
violin.
    She likes lots of different kinds of music, from Beethoven to the Beatles, and she wants to play the music
she likes. Not only has she played in classical concerts all over the world, but she has also played in pop
concerts with pop stars.
    A lot of people don't like the way she uses modern rhythms (节奏), noisy drums and guitars in traditional
(传统的) music. But Vanessa-Mae has done one important thing: she has brought many new fans to classical
music. For the first time, many young people began to listen to classical music.
1. Vanessa-Mae was a young            woman.
[     ]
A. Chinese
B. English
C. Singaporean
D. French
2. The type of music Vanessa-Mae likes is           .
[     ]
A. traditional music
B. different kinds of music
C. classical music
D. rock and roll
3.            listen to classical music because they like Vanessa-Mae.
[     ]
A. Pop stars
B. Young people
C. Classical musicians
D. Old people
4.            was the first instrument (乐器) she learnt to play.
[     ]
A. The violin
B. The piano
C. The drums
D. The guitar
5. Vanessa-Mae has played music with            in all kinds of concerts.
[     ]
A. Beethoven and the Beatles
B. young children
C. pop stars and classical musicians
D. new fans
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Beethoven (贝多芬) was born in a small city near the Rhine in Germany. His father always drank and his mother was a maid (女仆). They lived a poor life.
Beethoven was a talented (有天赋的) child in music. People at that time thought he was as clever as Mozart. His father wanted to make money from his talent, so he told him to practice and play all the time. If he didn’t do that, his father would be angry with him and beat him.
Beethoven was very short and ugly. He couldn’t hear well from the age of 22 and later he heard nothing, but all these unhappy things didn’t make him dislike music. He began to write sonatas (奏鸣曲) at 12, and later he became a great musician.
His life was so short that he didn’t leave many works. But people think he was one of the best musicians in the world.
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【小题1】Beethoven was from a        in a small city near the Rhine in Germany.

A.educational familyB.teacher’s family
C.rich familyD.poor family
【小题2】Beethoven’s father told him to practice and play all the time because his father wanted to make   .
A.him be a great musician
B.him not drink too much like him
C.himself rich
D.him beat Mozart in music
【小题3】What did people think of Beethoven at that time ?
A.He wasn’t a rich boy.
B.He did as well as Mozart in music.
C.He didn’t love his parents.
D.He would be a great singer.
【小题4】He was ugly and deaf ,       .
A.that often made him dislike music
B.but all these things didn’t make him dislike music
C.that made him stressed out
D.but he didn’t regard all these things as challenges
【小题5】Which of the following is NOT true ?
A.His father would be angry with him and beat him unless he practiced and played all the time.
B.His father never stopped drinking wine.
C.He left so many works that people think he was one of the best musicians in the world.
D.After writing sonatas at 12, he became a great musician.

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The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”

Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a £225,000 university scholarship.

At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”

1.The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .

A.China            B.France            C.Canada           D.the United States

2.Marc played the piano at the age of        for the first time.

A.two              B.five              C.six               D.nine

3.According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “     ” in Chinese.

A.使……理解                           B.使……担心

C.使……惊奇                           D.使……难过

4.At present Marc practices playing the piano        .

A.once a month                          B.eight hours a day

C.in his free time                         D.only on weekends

5.What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that       .

A.he likes challenges                      B.he doesn’t like challenges

C.he is afraid of challenges                  D.he wants to be happy and famous.

 

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