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What is your favorite cartoon? It may be    1. (困难的)for you to decide. But for the pianist Lang Lang, Tomand Jerry is the best one.

Lang Lang was born in 1982.When he was two      2. （岁）old, he saw Tom playing the piano. This was his      3.     （一）time to enjoy foreign music and it encouraged （鼓励）him to learn to play piano.

Lang   4.        （成为）a good piano student at there. Ever since, the boy has been doing better and better. His talent at the keyboard took him from Shengyang to the world. In 1997,the 15-year-old boy    5.      （学习）at a first-class American music college. Lang worked   6.    （努力）There and now is   7.       （著名的）for making facial expressions （面部表情）and moving around while playing the piano.

The road to success has never been easy. Lang’s father     8.   (停止)his job to look after him, while his mother stayed in Shengyang to make money.    9.  （然而）Lang thinks himself lucky and    10. （相信）he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor schools a lot.

I was feeling a little blue because my mother had lost her job.

One day, while I was    on the street, I heard the piano music and singing rising above the noise of the people. I walked more slowly to      where it was coming from. Then I saw a young lady sitting at a piano.

She was singing songs about love,      yourself and keeping on trying. The way she was singing made me a little comfortable. I stood there     ，watching her playing on such a crowded New York square. I thought that she must be     enough to perform in front of so many people.

She noticed me. I walked over and told her how good her       sounded. “Thank you.” she said.

“I have been going through a hard time recently,     you’ve made me hopeful again.” I said to her.

“I’m glad that I could help,” she replied, “Why are you so    ?”

“Well, my mom has lost her job, and I’m not sure what to do …”

“Did you noticed the    you were walking? Your head was down.” she said. “Don’t be upset, because      comes in different ways and if your head is down, you might not see it. You should       more… lift your head up.”

I looked      her, amazed at how she was encouraging me. “    are you playing the piano here?” I asked her with a smile.

She     that she saw a lot of unhappy people in the world and she tried to cheer       up by playing music.

I smiled a little wilder, realizing that no difficulties could stop me from going on.

1.A. driving            B. riding                         C. running     D. walking

2.A. find out           B. send out                     C. take out     D. get out

3.A. dressing          B. believing                     C. hurting      D. losing

4.A. nervously         B. rudely                        C. angrily      D. quietly

5.A. brave             B. shy                          C. bored       D. honest

6.A. advice             B. idea                         C. music       D. interest

7.A. or                B. but                           C. so          D. and

8.A. dirty              B. busy                  C. sad         D. lazy

9.A. way               B. time              C. reason       D. station

10.A. opportunity     B. health            C. pain         D. life

11.A. complain       B. rest              C. smile        D. pay

12.A. like           B. after             C. for          D. at

13.A. How          B. Why              C. When       D. Where

14.A. dreamed       B. hoped             C. guessed     D. explained

15.A. us            B. them               C. me        D. her

【小题1】It was such a ______ that he couldn’t deal with it. (惊奇)
【小题2】I would rather go out tonight, if you don’t ______. (介意)
【小题3】A selfish person loves to borrow but hates to ______. (借给)
【小题4】You may be joking but she’s simple ______ to believe you. (足够)
【小题5】Thanks to all the friends who understand, support me and ______ me. (鼓励)
【小题6】That’s my grandmother. She is 84. You wouldn’t believe how ______ she is! (活跃的)

When I was in my ninth grade, I was on a stage-design team for a play and Mrs. Reagan was my director. Almost immediately I loved her. She had an unpleasant voice and a direct way of speaking, __1__ she was encouraging and inspiring. For some reason, she was impressed with my work and me.

Mrs. Reagan would ask me for my __2__. She wanted to know how I thought we should deal with things. At first I had no idea how to answer because I knew __3__ about stage design! But I slowly tried to answer her __4__. It was cause and effect: She believed I had opinions, so I began to make them and I completed them perfectly. She believed in me, so I began to believe in myself.

Mrs. Reagan 's motto that year was, "Try it. We can achieve it __5__!" I began to take the chances. I had been so afraid of failing but suddenly there was no failing. I learned to create something __6__.

The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was __7__ in the program as "Student Art Assistant" because of the time and effort I'd put in. It was that year that I __8__ I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design.

Being on that stage-design team with Mrs. Reagan changed me completely. Not only was I stronger and more experienced than I had thought, but I also __9_ a strong interest and a world I hadn't known. She taught me not to __10__ what people think I should do. She taught me to take chances and not be __11_. Mrs. Reagan was the person who gave me confidence when I was upset. Her trust in me has encouraged me to do things that I never imagined __12__.

1.                A．and            B．so             C．yet  D．for

2.                A．impression      B．opinion         C．information    D．advice

3.                A．anything        B．something       C．everything D．nothing

4.                A．questions       B．words          C．explanations   D．ideas

5.                A．again          B．more           C．instead   D．later

6.                A．easily          B．carefully        C．confidently    D．proudly

7.                A．introduced      B．recognized      C．placed   D．considered

8.                A．proved         B．decided        C．accepted D．realized

9.                A．discovered      B．developed      C．took D．encouraged

10.               A．accept         B．decide         C．care  D．wonder

11.               A．afraid          B．lazy            C．sad   D．bored

12.               A．successful      B．possible        C．enjoyable  D．agreeable