1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

US music legend Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award in a decision     1     surprised prize watchers.

The 75-year-old Dylan —best known for tunes like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone”     2     (honor) “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, the Swedish Academy said.

The choice was met by gasps and a long round of applause from reporters     3     (attend) the prize announcement. The folk singer has been mentioned in Nobel speculation in the past few years,     4     he was never seen as a serious competitor.

“Dylan has the status of     5     important symbol. His influence on contemporary music is profound,” the academy wrote in biographical notes about the famously private singer.

The Nobel is the latest award for the singer, who has come a long way from his humble beginnings as Robert Allen Zimmerman, born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, and who taught     6     to play the harmonica, guitar and piano.

Initially     7     (encourage) by the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, Robert Allen changed his name to Bob Dylan and began performing in local nightclubs.

    8     dropping out of college, he moved to New York in 1960. His     9     (early) album contained only two original songs, but the 1963 breakthrough The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan featured a number of his own songs,     10     (include) the classic Blowin’ in the Wind.

2 . To the music of Verdi’s Ave Maria, Bulgarian-born soprano Raina Kabaivanska opened the funeral service for her longtime friend and colleague Luciano Pavarotti in the cathedral of Modena. Archbishop Benito Cocchi read a message of condolence from Pope Benedict. In it, the pope said Pavarotti had “honored the divine gift of music through his extraordinary interpretative talent.”

Pavarotti’s white maple casket was covered in sunflowers-his favorite-and laid before the altar. Since his death on Thursday, some 100,000 people of all ages have filed past his coffin in the cathedral, paying last respects to the maestro. Music resounded throughout the service. Tenor Andrea Bocelli sang Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus.” Family members, close friends as well as dignitaries and celebrities attended the invitation-only service. Among those attending were Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, U2 lead singer Bono, and film director Franco Zeffirelli.

Across Italy, admirers watched the service live on television, and thousands of ordinary citizens gathered in the square outside the cathedral and followed the service on a giant screen. One admirer outside the church said Pavarotti would never die. He’s said he is convinced that Pavarotti is not dead because he will continue to live with his voice, with his songs, and he will always remain in our hearts.

Applause broke out as the casket was carried outside the church as loudspeakers amplified a recording of Pavarotti singing arias by Verdi.

As a special honor for a man of humble origins who became Italy’s greatest cultural ambassador, an air force team flew over the cathedral, streaking the sky in the white, red and green colors of the Italian flag.

1. The music played throughout the service was sung by         .

A．Raina Kabaivanska	B．Tenor Andrea Bocelli
C．Bono	D．Verdi

2. All attended Pavarotti’s funeral service except         .

A．People of all ages filing past his coffin in the cathedral.

B．family members and close friends of Pavarotti.

C．Italian Prime Minister and former U.N Secretary General.

D．dignitaries and celebrities invited.

3. Which of the following sentences is Not True?

A．Pavarotti is Italy’s greatest cultural ambassador with extraordinary talent.

B．Pavarotti will always remain in the heart of his admirers across the country.

C．Tenor Andrea Bocelli attended Pavarotti’s funeral solemnly and respectfully.

D．To show people’s respect, the funeral was completed with an air force gun salute.

3 . 选词填空

A. exactly       B. requires       C. forced       D. perfectly       E. comfort F. rush       G. released       H. as       I. relates       J. asked             K.including

When Michael Wong was young, he was sensitive and shy. It was a huge task for him to talk to a stranger or go downstairs to the shops. But he found     1     through playing the piano.

Recently, the Malaysian piano star    2     his latest album “Never Apart”. It’s made up of ten catchysongs    3     the title song with the same name. Never Apart tells the story of a couple who are    4     to separate for a while, but they still cherish the beautiful memories they had.

“Music sounds better when it    5    to true feelings” he says

Now, Michael has grown, up to be one of the most popular singers in Taiwan. His slow love songs including First Time and Fairytale are hits with heartbroken young people.

Over the years, he has become bolder and learnt to voice opinions in his music. Once, he was    6     to sing a song someone else wrote. But he didn’t like the song lyrics, so he argued they should be changed. “If I broke up with someone, I don’t think I would have reacted in the same way    7     the story in the song,” he said. “I want to tell people     8     how I will behave. And it works.” He says the song sounds better when he can sing it his own way.

Michael is often called the piano prince. He’s elegant when he plays and sings along. “When I play, inspirations    9     to me like continuous streams. It     10    no effort.” But he still works hard to make his songs appealing. “I’ll go over every tiny detail to make the song worth listening to.”

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下对话。1.

A．He like music and travelling when he was little.

B．He became famous and rich very soon.

C．He played music a lot even at his early childhood.

D．He learned music from other classical musicians.

2.

A．He was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg.

B．He composed a lot and earned a lot of money.

C．He predicted his own death by composing Requiem.

D．He reached the peak of his career.

3.

A．A brief biography of Mozart.

B．How did Mozart compose music.

C．Mozart and classical music.

D．The influence of western music on Mozart.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Always happy and easy.

B．Always rich and relaxed.

C．Always hard and relaxed.

D．Always hard and tired.

2.

A．A pop singer is somewhat afraid of meeting his fans.

B．A pop singer is free to see his fans.

C．The pop singers become famous easily.

D．The pop singers can’t save any money.

3.

A．To show off his wealth to his fans.

B．To keep himself smart and different.

C．To advertise the clothes in business.

D．To make his fame bigger.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. lonely       B. convey       C. touches       D. inconvenience       E. widely       F. accompanying G. composition       H. captures       I. abandon       J. sensory       K. wearing

An Innovative Painter

Alan is a pioneering painter, working with oil paint on canvas in a traditional way. It is only in his use of paint that he differs from the usual practice of using brushes.

Although he does use a brush to draw the main lines of his     1    , he uses painting knives to apply the paint. Early on he found that paint laid on with painting knives gave him the particular body and texture (质地) he wanted to     2     his subjects. The knife is capable of an enormous variety of marks, from delicate     3     to fierce sweeping and slices of paint. The knife’s sharp edged marks create their own dynamic of light and shade. Alan possesses many painting knives of different sizes, but tends to favour three or four, which are now     4    thin with constant use. He is still discovering new possibilities with the knife, driven by the demands of a new subject. Although Alan’s paintings are made in the studio, they are all composed from drawings made outdoors. These drawings are the seed corn on which all his paintings are based. The marks that go down on paper make sure he     5    not just the actual scene but also the changing light, the direction of the wind and the     6     sounds and smells. For the painter, the whole     7     experience remains fixed within the drawing long after he has left the scene.

Throughout his life Alan has travelled     8    for particular places that fuel his creative imagination. He is an adventurous seeker, regardless of the     9     or difficulty of some of the locations. Long ago he decided to     10    the idea of working on large oil paintings out of doors because it involved canvases, oil paints and many other tools around. He now travels light, taking only sketchbooks, pens and a few watercolours with him. This gives him the freedom to draw anywhere and to catch the fleeting moment — the “here-and-now-ness” of the place.