Hitting heavily on the keys in frustration, I...

Hitting heavily on the keys in frustration, I turned away from the piano, trying to fight the tears that were already welling up in my eyes. After an hour of ____, I still couldn’t get the rhythm quite right on a Mozart piece that I had to ____ to my piano teacher the following day. It was frustrating to have spent such a( n) ____ time on a piano song and still be unable to play the piece correctly. To me, the piece had at first seemed easy. But, no matter how ____ I tried, I just couldn’t seem to play it the way that it was ____ to be played.

I decided to take a ____. For the most part, after a little bit of work, I could ____ learn the song rather quickly. However, it was always that one song, which might have appeared simple but was ____, that always annoyed me. These types of songs always made me ____ myself whether I could be a pianist.

After having dinner, I decided to come back to the piano. Placing my ____ on the keys, I chose to play the piece slowly and carefully, paying attention to hitting the correct notes ____ trying to play the piece quickly. Using this new method of practicing, I ____ a great deal of patience, something that I often had ____ with. Instead of thinking how hard the rhythm was, I thought about how I could ____ myself, little by little. Finally, I could slowly see myself getting better.

____, I didn’t even get the rhythm right until a week later. I also ____ an important lesson—sometimes, baby steps are the best way to ____ a goal. I’m an impatient person who likes to think that I can get ____ by leaps and bounds. But, in the case of piano, I couldn’t move forward and improve ____ I slowed down, believed in myself, and took it one step ____.

1.A. waiting　　 B. practicing　　 C. crying　　 D. singing

2.A. contribute　　 B. donate　　 C. represent　　 D. present

3.A. limited　　 B. extra　　 C. long　　 D. short

4.A. hard　　 B. well　　 C. carefully　　 D. efficiently

5.A. offered　　 B. supposed　　 C. designed　　 D. organized

6.A. try　　 B. chance　　 C. breath　　 D. break

7.A. usually　　 B. never　　 C. sometimes　　 D. occasionally

8.A. important　　 B. difficult　　 C. necessary　　 D. useful

9.A. ignore　　 B. regard　　 C. doubt　　 D. believe

10.A. mind　　 B. fingers　　 C. notes　　 D. piece

11.A. instead of　　 B. in spite of　　 C. as well as　　 D. in case of

12.A. expressed　　 B. encouraged　　 C. evaluated　　 D. exercised

13.A. confusion　　 B. contact　　 C. trouble　　 D. control

14.A. adjust　　 B. persuade　　 C. comfort　　 D. improve

15.A. However　　 B. Therefore　　 C. Otherwise　　 D. Moreover

16.A. gave　　 B. missed　　 C. learned　　 D. taught

17.A. set　　 B. identify　　 C. develop　　 D. reach

18.A. somewhere　　 B. nowhere　　 C. wherever　　 D. everywhere

19.A. as　　 B. until　　 C. when　　 D. if

20.A. all the time　　 B. at times　　 C. at a time　　 D. at one time

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Banging the keys in frustration, I turned away from the piano. I tried to _______ back the tears that were already welling up in my eyes. After an hour of _______, I still couldn’t get the rhythm quite _______ on a Mozart piece that I had to _______ to my piano teacher the _______ day. To me, the piece had at first seemed fairly _______. But, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t seem to _______ it the way that it was supposed to be performed.

I decided to take a _______, and come back to the piece later when I had _______. For the most part, after a little bit of ____________, I could usually learn the music pretty quickly. However, it was always that one song, which might have appeared simple but was indeed difficult, ____________ always got to me. This type of songs always made me ____________ myself whether I had a talent for piano.

After having dinner, I ____________ to come back to the piano. Placing my fingers tentatively on the ____________, I chose to play the piece slowly and carefully instead of trying to play the piece quickly. ____________ this new method, I exercised a great deal of patience, ____________ that I often have trouble with. Instead of focusing on how hard the rhythm was, I focused on how I could ____________ myself, little by little. Finally I could slowly see myself getting better.

So I learned an important lesson---More haste, ____________ speed. Sometimes baby steps are the best way to reach a goal. I’m an impatient person who likes to think that I can get somewhere ____________ But, in the case of piano, I couldn’t move forward and improve until I slowed down, believed in myself, and took it one step ____________ .

1.A.hang B.throw C.fight D.bear

2.A.complaining B.calming C.crying D.practicing

3.A.slow B.quick C.right D.fluent

4.A.present B.convey C.deliver D.address

5.A.other B.next C.last D.first

6.A.beautiful B.dull C.easy D.difficult

7.A.sing B.play C.enjoy D.understand

8.A.chance B.step C.seat D.break

9.A.calmed down B.given in C.held back D.warmed up

10.A.help B.rest C.luck D.work

11.A.which B.what C.that D.where

12.A.doubt B.remind C.accept D.believe

13.A.agreed B.refused C.decided D.stopped

14.A.notes B.keys C.pianos D.menus

15.A.With B.By C.In D.At

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

17.A.please B.satisfy C.support D.improve

18.A.more B.slow C.less D.quick

19.A.through thick and thin B.by leaps and bounds C.by wear and tear D.by fits and starts

20.A.at one time B.at all times C.at times D.at a time

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In order to go to a key university, I must______my study from now on.

A. consist of      B. get away from   C. concentrate on    D. come up with

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Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.

After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window .I would say to myself, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window .It really looks terrible.”

One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.

Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing(批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(评判) someone, I asked myself first ,“Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

1.The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because_____.

2.The writer was surprised that ________.

3.“ It dawned on me” probably means “______”.

4. It’s clear that________.

5. From the passage, we can learn_________.

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There’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn’t stand it, now I’m used to it.

I don’t know his name. I know he’s average in appearance, wears a gray suit, and has a common face. I met him five years ago one hot morning when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park, reading the paper. Suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now, as I’m writing, keeps hitting me, mechanically (机械地) and impassively, with an umbrella.

On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy, he didn’t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly, cool as a cucumber, he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation, and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down, but he immediately got back on his feet, obviously with great effort, and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose was bleeding and, at that moment, I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all, the man wasn’t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella, not causing any pain at all. Of course, those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know, when a fly lands on your forehead, you don’t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then, that umbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time.

Convinced that I was dealing with a madman, I tried to escape. But the man followed me, wordlessly continuing to hit me. So I began to run (I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do). He took off after me, trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, he would drop dead right then and there.

1.When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, the author ________.

A. became angry

B. called the police

C. turned around and escaped

D. turned around and fought back

2.The author would most probably agree that the man was ________.

A. deaf          B. blind           C. dead           D. mad

3.The author felt sorry for the man because ________.

A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others

B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled

C. the man couldn’t catch up with him

D. there was a fly on the man’s head

4.It can be learned from the passage that the man ________.

A. shouted loudly while hitting the author

B. wanted to tell the author something

C. ran after the author breathlessly

D. acted as if he were a fly

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—I am so frustrated that the house we______in for so many years was consumed by the fire.

—Come on.Look on the bright side.I feel lucky to have escaped in time.

A.would live B.had lived C.live D.have lived

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To avoid the car ______ the child, the driver had to make a sharp turn.

A．to hit           B．hit      C．hitting   D．being hit

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What do we know about Karen?

A.She hasn’t been in contact with the speakers.

B.She has turned away from all her friends.

C.She really likes her studies.

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She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're moving house.” "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her former owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.

That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.

By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.

I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.

1.In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie 　　　　 .

A. felt worried　　 B. was angry

C. ate a little　　 D. sat by the fire

2.Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she 　　　　 .

A. saw her puppies　　 B. heard familiar barking

C. wanted to leave the author　　 D. found her way to her old home

3.The passage is organized in order of 　　　　　 .

A. time　　 B. effectiveness

C. importance　　 D. complexity

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You may have experienced the frustration of receiving a parking fine or finding your car towed away （拖走）after leaving it parked for a couple of minutes．

But now a high tech car sticker could help motorists avoid such a situation by allowing a traffic warden（管理员）to get in touch with them．Car owners can buy the sticker and place it inside their car’s windscreen，having set it up with vital information，such as their phone number．The slim design will i nclude a sensor that will send a text message warning a driver about a coming fine when touched by a traffic warden．The message will ask them to move their car immediately．The driver could then type a reply for the warden us ing their smartphone，which will appear on the sticker’s screen．They may choose to write something along the lines of“back in two minutes”in a bid to avoid a fine．Frankfurt-based IT consultant，Daniel Kalliontzis，came up with the idea and is raising funds on Indiegogo to put his 54 sticker into production．

The smart sticker system will rely on the good will of traffic wardens and critically，a German law．The law states:“An officer has to choose the most e fficient and inexpensive way for the car owner to remove the vehicle．”It could be cheaper for the authorities to contact the driver than to tow his car．

At the time of writing，Mr Kalliontzis has raised just over 3，000 of his 50，000 goal on Indiegogo．If he manages to raise the money，the stickers will be shipped in June 2015．But it appears that car owners using the smart system could get some unnecessary warning messages，because anyone could touch the smart sticker．

1.The first paragraph is intended to ________．

A． highlight an awkward situation

B． complain about a parking fine

C． introduce the topic of the passage

D． remind motorists of the parking risk

2.What may probably contribute to the application of the TowStop sticker in Germany？

A． The sticker’s low cost．

B． The mass production．

C． The goodwill of motorists．

D． The law of the country．

3.What can be concluded from the last paragraph about the TowStop Sticker？

A． It takes time and efforts to put it to use．

B． Only traffic wardens can touch the sticker．

C． All car owners will use the sticker in 2015．

D． Kalliontzis is experienced in raising money．

4.What’s the right order of the following statements according to the passage？

①A message is sent by the sensor．

②The sticker is put inside a car’s windscreen．

③A traffic warden touches the smart sticker．

④The sticker is set up with vital information．

⑤The motorist sends a message．

A． ②④⑤③①

B． ④②③①⑤

C． ④②③⑤①

D． ②④①③⑤

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