第1题:
A.time
B.thing
C.chance
D.case
第2题:
A
Jay Chou was born on January 18, 1979, in Taiwan, China. He grew up with his mother, and was a quiet and shy kid. He didn’t do well in study, so people thought he would never be successful in life.
As a small child, Jay took a great interest in music.His mother sent lum to learn the piano when he was only three years-old He loved it and kept on practicing. When he was in high school, he could play the piano quite well. At the same time, he showed his talent for writing songs.
Before Jay became a singer, he worked as a songwriter. For two years, he spent most of his time writing for singers. Some of them were very famous, like Coco Lee and Jacky Cheung. Jay released(友行) his first album(专辑) in 2000 and soon he got quite popular.
Now Jay is one of the most famous singers in Asia. However, he is still shy and doesn't smile often He isn’t good-looking and doesn’t speak clearly when he sings or talks, but he has a lot of fans. Most of his fans like him because he is really good at music and never follows others.
( )21. When Jay Chou was a small kid,_________-
④he was quiet and shy②he lived with his parents③he didn't study well④he loved music
第3题:
Passage Five
Billy Joel was born on Long Island, in New York State. He began taking piano lessons at an early age and joined his first rock band when he was fourteen. After playing in a number of Long Island groups, Billy began concentrating on his song-writing. His first album of completely original songs was Cold Spring Harbor. It was released in 1972. Two years later, after the release of the smash-hit albums Piano Man and Street-life Serenade. Billy was named "Best New Male Vocalist" by Cask Box magazine.
51. Billy Joel began taking piano lessons ______.
A. when he joined his first rock band
B. after he was named "Best New Male Vocalist"
C. at fourteen
D. before he was fourteen years old
第4题:
A、of
B、in
C、from
D、after
第5题:
When he was a boy he ________ his talent for writing.
A、demonstrated
B、clarified
C、illustrated
D、approved
第6题:
Whenever he has trouble in study, he always tries, _____, to get help from his teachers and classmates.
Asomehow
Banyhow
Cno matter how
Danyway
第7题:
第8题:
第9题:
Hardly had he arrived
Hardly he had arrived
No sooner did he arrive
No sooner arrived he
第10题:
Hardly he has found
No sooner had he found
Not until did he find
When he found
第11题:
tricked
deceived
robbed
stripped
第12题:
A、he finished
B、he had finished
C、did he finish.
D、had he finish.
第13题:
B
Jim was a waiter. He liked to grow flowers in his garden when he was free. One Sunday morning after breakfast he put on his old clothes and began digging(挖) in his garden at 8. He dug and dug. Half an hour later he suddenly found a coin near his foot. He was very glad. He put it in his right pocket. A few minutes later,he found anotherone. He picked it up and p...hit in the same pocket.The same thing happened for the third,the fourth and the fifth time…: He was very happy and told his wife about it. She was very happy,too. She said,"A thief took away a lot of coins from a shop a few days ago. The police caught him but they didn't find any coins. Then Jim went on digging some coins,but just when he began to dig,he felt something cold in his trousers... It ran down one of his legs. He put his hand down quickly and the coin came into his hand. Now he knew there was a hole in his right pocket.
( )26. There were some _________ in Jim's garden.
A.flowers
B.coins
C.people
D.trees
第14题:
Not until he left his home ________ to know how important the family was for him.
A.did he begia
B.ead he beans
C.he began
D.he has began
第15题:
A.is resemble
B.resembles
C.is same
D.is similar to
第16题:
Peter liked music very much when he was at school, but when he went to the university,he decided to study medicine instead. After he passed the examinations and became a doctor, he had to work in a hospital for some time. There he discovered that a lot of patients were happier and less worried about their illnesses if they could hear pleasant music. When Peter became a surgeon and began to work for himself, he decided to keep his patients happy by having a tape recorder in his waiting room, playing beautiful music for them. But soon after the tape recorder was put in the waiting room, Peter’s nurse heard a woman who was sitting in the crowded waiting room one morning complain, "Here we’re all waiting to see the doctor, and he’s just playing the piano in his office instead of doing his work!"
31. Peter liked music when he was at school.
A. T B. F
32. Peter had to pass some examinations after he became a doctor.
A. T B. F
33. Peter decided to play music for his patients because he couldn’t leave music.
A. T B. F
34. Peter put a recorder in his waiting room.
A. T B. F
35. The woman complained because she thought Peter wasn’t working.
A. T B. F
第17题:
________ to speak when the audience interrupted him.
[A] Hardly had he begun
[B] No sooner had he begun
[C] Not until he began
[D] Scarcely did he begin
第18题:
第19题:
bred
fed up
brought up
grown up
第20题:
when
that
which
what
第21题:
Somebody
Everybody
Nobody
Anybody