Question

From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(獨奏演唱會). A recital I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I would ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, saying something about building and working toward a goal.

One recent Sunday I stood in church, video camera in hand, and my 68-year-old father play the piano in his very first recital.

My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, too many of us do. But he wasn’t stuck in the past. When he retired three years ago, he his church music director to take him as .

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ? I worried. But then came the beautiful melody (旋律). And I he had been doing what music teachers always stress: the notes and pretend the others aren’t there.

“I’m of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.

“Yeah, and doing it so ,” Jeff added.

With his first recital, my father taught me more about self-confidence and the life goal than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

1.A. reflected B. meant C. explained D. proved

2.A. self-confidence B. self-control C. self-defense D. self-discipline

3.A. kept B. sent C. watched D. felt

4.A. miss B. afford C. select D. understand

5.A. as B. once C. if D. while

6.A. allowed B. invited C. inspired D. persuaded

7.A. a teacher B. an old man C. a student D. a singer

8.A. words B. videos C. notes D. lessons

9.A. predicted B. realized C. imagined D. insisted

10.A. pass over B . turn up C. bring in D. concentrate on

11.A. ashamed B. aware C. tired D. proud

12.A. nicely B. anxiously C. casually D. frequently

Answer 1

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.B

5.A

6.D

7.C

8.C

9.B

10.D

11.D

12.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講了，從我讀二年級開始，之后每年我都害怕一件事：鋼琴獨奏演唱會。每年我都問父親我可不可以不演奏了，父親每次都搖頭，教我該如何建立自信，向著目標(biāo)努力。父親從小就渴望學(xué)鋼琴，但由于當(dāng)時家里很窮，父親的夢想一直沒能實現(xiàn)。三年前，他退休后，開始學(xué)鋼琴，不一會兒，他就旁若無人地彈起優(yōu)美的旋律。父親的第一次獨奏教會了我自信以及向著目標(biāo)努力。

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