1 . A famous philosopher said, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” Travelling can provide different experience and ______ our horizons.

Last year, I enrolled in a summer vocal(唱歌) institute at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in New Jersey, US. There I truly experienced the kindness and warmth of people all over the world ______ their skin color, language or nationality.

As a ______ who knew little about the place, I worried and was extremely cautious about everything. I didn’t dare to talk with anyone. ______, with the help of others I got over my embarrassment. I remembered that when I first ______ the classroom, the students gave me a warm welcome. I began to ______.

Later, they even held a party for me, which also showed their _____. They talked about various topics ______China, such as the Great Wall, kungfu, the giant panda and Chinese cuisine. I was surprised to find that they had great ______ about Chinese culture. The more we ______, the more relaxed and confident I became. I felt at home with the ______ topics.

Maybe it was the great atmosphere or the fact that I wanted them to know more about China that ______ me to sing Chinese songs for them. With their applause, I realized that it was a ______ beginning of my time in a foreign country.

Apart from their warmth, their ______ music impressed me a lot: Whenever you went to the studio, you would find someone playing a musical instrument or singing. It was like entering a world of music. Music was a(n)______ theme for them. They loved it and ______ every chance to play it. In such a purely musical ______ , my own attachment to music became even ______. I played music more often and exchanged ideas with everyone who was interested in. I fell completely in love with music.

Time flew. ______ I knew it, the visit was over. But it was an extraordinary experience. It taught me to be more open-minded and more ______ about my culture. In the future, I will explore and embrace this world bravely as well as enjoy the further study in music.

1.

A．provide

B．get

C．broaden

D．enhance

2.

A．in need of

B．by means of

C．in terms of

D．regardless of

3.

A．reader

B．newcomer

C．loser

D．traveler

4.

A．However

B．Besides

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise

5.

A．left

B．saw

C．entered

D．found

6.

A．laugh

B．relax

C．cry

D．complain

7.

A．tiredness

B．happiness

C．loneliness

D．kindness

8.

A．related to

B．addicted to

C．opposed to

D．given to

9.

A．curiosity

B．bravery

C．indifference

D．anxiety

10.

A．learned

B．talked

C．collected

D．answered

11.

A．serious

B．famous

C．significant

D．familiar

12.

A．asked

B．forced

C．inspired

D．extended

13.

A．forgetful

B．wonderful

C．powerful

D．useful

14.

A．performance of

B．passion for

C．talent in

D．contribution to

15.

A．long-lasting

B．ordinary

C．original

D．experimental

16.

A．sent

B．treasured

C．praised

D．threw

17.

A．environment

B．holiday

C．game

D．journey

18.

A．faster

B．cleverer

C．stronger

D．louder

19.

A．Unless

B．If

C．Before

D．Since

20.

A．particular

B．careful

C．anxious

D．confident

4 . Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ambition   ________   ended in 2010 when Hill was in a car accident, which put the 17-year-old high school senior in hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have   ________   any hope of a dancing career. But for Hill, it was the   ________ . Far from being a(an)   ________ , her wheelchair encouraged her to fight. “I want to prove to everyone including myself that I’m still normal,” she said, “whatever normal means.”

Normal for her meant   ________ , so Hill did it in her wheelchair alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. Half of her body was taken away from her, so she had to   ________   it with her hands. It definitely took a lot of   ________   and patience.

After graduation from high school, Hill wanted to   ________   her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had   ________   various spinal (脊椎的) injuries but share her   _______ , and invited them to dance with her.

The   ________ experience made Hill wish to reach more people. She moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she called the Rollettes. “I want to   _________   the stereotype of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you're walking or you're   ________ .” Dancing on ________ ,the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast-paced and fulfilling as the foot-based   ________ .

Every year Hill holds a dance camp called the Rollettes Experience for wheelchair users to help them bring out their acting   ________ . In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they   ________ . “It’s so powerful to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more   ________ ,” one dancer excitedly commented.

Chelsie Hill   _________   what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She has been chasing her dream in the wheelchair. She’s a dancer. The Rollettes have helped her find something else just as   __________ .

1.

A．naturally

B．nearly

C．suddenly

D．unfortunately

2.

A．chased

B．abandoned

C．raised

D．ruined

3.

A．beginning

B．nightmare

C．compromise

D．miracle

4.

A．accident

B．obstacle

C．companion

D．disability

5.

A．dream

B．dancing

C．recovery

D．teamwork

6.

A．move

B．drag

C．remove

D．seize

7.

A．bumping

B．rejecting

C．turning

D．learning

8.

A．design

B．expand

C．employ

D．change

9.

A．suffered

B．witnessed

C．treated

D．ignored

10.

A．identification

B．accomplishment

C．determination

D．requirement

11.

A．interesting

B．challenging

C．amazing

D．embarrassing

12.

A．put forward

B．take off

C．figure out

D．break down

13.

A．laughing

B．dreaming

C．marching

D．rolling

14.

A．wheels

B．mats

C．stages

D．hands

15.

A．activity

B．variety

C．creativity

D．community

16.

A．style

B．award

C．talent

D．personality

17.

A．lived

B．escaped

C．understood

D．belonged

18.

A．moves

B．partners

C．confidence

D．pressure

19.

A．applied

B．absorbed

C．attained

D．accumulated

20.

A．fulfilling

B．relaxing

C．convincing

D．approving

5 . While you are online there are plenty of perfectly legal sites where you can listen to music for free. This gives you the chance to listen to music before buying it, discover new music, and create great online playlists that you can share with others.

The Sixty One

The Sixty One is devoted to showcasing obscure or unknown artists of all genres. There is a range of musical styles from classical to rock and roll, folk to jazz, and everything in between. Don't expect to find big name musicians on here; you are more likely to find the musicians playing at local coffee shops than bands you hear on the radio. You can find fantastic music that you never would have heard of otherwise.

Pow Wow

Pow Wows are the Native American people's way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships, and making new ones. This is a time method to renew Native American culture and preserve the rich heritage of American Indians. PowWows.com has 2 online radio stations that play Native American Music 24X 7 free! Here you can listen to your favorite artist ad drum groups on your computer or mobile device and add your music to our station.

Playlist

Playlist has an enormous library, so you can create playlists with almost any musician you can think of. They have both some less known artists and big names, so you have a really good selection. The worst part: Due to licensing laws, many of the songs on Playlist are now restricted, to certain countries. So unless you live inside the US, it is likely that you might not be able to find all of your favorite songs.

Pandora

Pandora is an intelligent Internet radio site. Basically, as you listen, you can give each song thumbs up or thumbs down. You can create your own radio station that only plays music you like. The best part: It listens to your opinion, so that after a while it's only playing music you like, but the list is always changing and expanding.

My Space

Combine a major social networking site with thousands of artists around the world. Each musician has their own page, which normally has a playlist of several of their songs. But it has a huge range of musicians ranging from huge stars to the up-and-coming, and you can listen to the music and interact with the rest of the page.

1. If you enjoy listening to some new music, you can pay a visit to ________.

A．The Sixty One	B．Playlist
C．Pow Wow	D．Pandora

2. You can't listen to some music on Playlist possibly because ________.

A．you don't have any playlist

B．you are not one of the members of the website

C．it is only open to those who are in the United States

D．the music is played only by the local people.

3. Pandora is different from the other websites of music in that ________.

A．listening to music is free of charge

B．the website keeps changing and expanding;

C．it is built according to your suggestions

D．you can always enjoy your favorite music.

4. Which of the following is true of My Space?

A．Thousands of artists visits it every day.

B．It is unnecessary to create your own playlist of each musician

C．Many musicians ranging from huge stars to the up-and-coming often visit the site

D．It is possible to meet the stars around the world

5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．Create Your Own Playlist.	B．Best Free Music Websites.
C．All Kinds of Music Online.	D．Listen to Music for free.

6 . 阅读下面短文，按照要求用英语回答问题。

GRAMMY award-winning blues harmonica (口琴) player Sugar Blue made his first China performance in December 2017. Chinese audiences were amazed by his stormy playing of the harmonica.

Born on December 16, 1949 in New York, Sugar Blue is a great singer and composer. Sugar Blue’s love for music comes from his mother. Till today, he still vividly remembers the first time his mother took him to the Apollo Theater to see Stevie Wonder, a music genius. The way Wonder played the harmonica onstage greatly impressed Sugar Blue and made him even more determined to spend his life working on his musical dream.

Sugar Blue’s musical career has been quite smooth, in which New York City plays an integral part. At that time, the musical atmosphere in New York was very diverse, jazz, blues, pop, rock, etc.

He tries to pour everything that he feels about a song into it. His inspiration comes from people and the things that he comes across in his daily life, involving personal relationships, love, work, and daily struggles. In his eyes, you can write about the wonderful things that happen to you and you can also write about things that are not so good. He also draws inspiration from literature. Besides poetry, Zora Neale Hurston’s book also influenced him a lot, which is in his eyes “poetry from the first word to the last.”

Among the cities he has been to, Shanghai is his favorite. “In Shanghai, there’s rock and roll, jazz, hip-hop, traditional Chinese music. I had a wonderful experience.” he said. “The city itself is full of life and energy.”

In his new album, Sugar Blue writes a song about Shanghai to show his special love of it. The song features well-known Chinese sheng musician’s playing. Sugar Blue loves this song and highly values such cooperation with Chinese musicians.

1. How did Stevie Wonder influence Sugar Blue? (No more than 10 words)
2. Please explain the underlined words “integral” in English. (No more than 1 words)
3. Where does Sugar Blue’s inspiration come from? (No more than 15 words)
4. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about? (No more than 10 words)
5. What do you think is the most important reason for Sugar Blue’s success? Please explain. (No more than 20 words)

7 . In 1957, Max Vernon Mathews wrote the first computer program called Music, which enabled a computer to create sound and play it back. He was then working as an engineer at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. It enabled a large IBM computer to play a seventeensecond piece of music he had written.

The computer was so slow that it took an hour to play the seventeensecond piece of music. So Mathews moved the work to a tape player to play the music at a normal speed. He later said that the sound quality of the musical notes was not great, but the technical importance of the music was huge.

The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke visited Bell Laboratories in the 1960s. He heard a computer “sing” the song Daisy Bell on devices (设备) and learned about the programs developed by Mathews and other engineers. Clarke noted this technology in his book 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was later made into a movie.

Mathews continued creating other versions of the Music program. He became interested in how computers could help musicians outside recording studios. The Groove program he developed was the first computer program made for live performances.

He also developed an electronic device he called the Radio Baton, which looks like two drum sticks. It enables the user to control the speed and sound levels of orchestral music (管弦乐) played on a computer by moving the two sticks on a special electronic surface.

Mathews said he believed modern musicians were not making full use of the power of computer music. He said a violin always sounds like a violin. But with his Music, the way a violin sounds is unlimited. He did not want computer sounds to replace live music, but he hoped computers would one day be considered serious instruments.

1. Why did Clarke visit Bell Laboratories?

A．To make his book into a movie.

B．To help Mathews develop Music.

C．To satisfy his own curiosity about music.

D．To gather materials for his literary creation.

2. What electronic music tools did Mathews create?

A．Something used to record live music.

B．Something used to create special sound.

C．Something used to improve computer music.

D．Something used to create computer music.

3. What does Mathews think of his Music?

A．It is more pleasant to the ear.

B．It can help make more sounds.

C．It will finally replace the violin.

D．It is more popular than live music.

4. What can we learn about Mathews?

A．He is the father of computer music.

B．His creation succeeded on the first try.

C．He wrote Music to replace instruments.

D．He changed the functions of computers.

8 . I was 11 when I asked my mum for piano lessons. As she'd been in_________difficulties, she said a polite “no”.

That didn't_________ me. I drew a keyboard onto a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would_________ notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without_________a real piano. As my mum found I was_________about it, she bought me 10 lessons with borrowed money.

After eight lessons, I_________grade one and scored high. By the time I started secondary school, we couldn't_________lessons again, so I returned to my paper keyboard, kept practising and passed grades three and five.

For the grades above that, there was an_________that you add a certain sensitivity into your playing. To take advantage of practising on our school's grand piano, I_________wake up at 5:30 a. m. to get there__________and play until lessons started. I'd skip lunch and then practise after school__________the caretaker kicked me out. At home, I'd have dinner, do three hours of revision, and then __________practice until l: 00 a. m.

My school didn't offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The audition (试镜) was extremely__________,and I felt extremely nervous. To my amazement, I was offered a __________.

I had been thought to have started playing too__________to reach conservatoire (音乐学院) level but when I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize. I realized that I wasn't __________everyone else. I am now at the Guildhall School in London with a scholarship. I feel__________: it's been 10 years since I drew my paper piano and I'm at one of the world's leading conservatoires.

The fun thing is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano:__________we call mental practice. It__________ key areas of the mind that are less readily accessed by piano playing alone. The paper piano helped encourage my__________about how music works.

1.

A．social

B．educational

C．financial

D．political

2.

A．protect

B．frighten

C．embarrass

D．discourage

3.

A．take

B．click

C．sign

D．observe

4.

A．seeing

B．touching

C．enjoying

D．choosing

5.

A．serious

B．careful

C．hesitant

D．nervous

6.

A．fell behind

B．dropped out

C．got through

D．put off

7.

A．offer

B．teach

C．overlook

D．afford

8.

A．expectation

B．attitude

C．opinion

D．opportunity

9.

A．would

B．might

C．could

D．dared

10.

A．in patience

B．in time

C．in peace

D．in need

11.

A．although

B．since

C．until

D．if

12.

A．technical

B．mental

C．mechanical

D．physical

13.

A．fascinating

B．boring

C．frightening

D．challenging

14.

A．course

B．reward

C．certificate

D．place

15.

A．soon

B．late

C．hurriedly

D．suddenly

16.

A．above

B．against

C．behind

D．beyond

17.

A．lucky

B．proud

C．ambitious

D．grateful

18.

A．what

B．how

C．that

D．why

19.

A．builds

B．covers

C．determines

D．unlocks

20.

A．prediction

B．memory

C．curiosity

D．invention