1. When was Now and Then recorded by Lennon?
| A．In 1970. | B．In 1977. | C．In 1979. |
| A．The use of advanced technology. | B．The living will of Lennon. | C．The request of fans. |
| A．It consists of classics. |
| B．It was finished in 1967. |
| C．It doesn’t include Now and Then. |
| A．It would make their album a hit. |
| B．It allowed the members to get together. |
| C．It offered a chance to remember Lennon. |
1. What is the man anxious about?
| A．Sitting his final exams. |
| B．Going to his high school dance. |
| C．Signing up for dance lessons. |
| A．Cousins. | B．Schoolmates. | C．Dance teacher and dancer. |
| A．She got injured. |
| B．She was offered a better job. |
| C．She wanted to spend more time with her family. |
1. When were the Beatles formed?
| A．In 1956. | B．In 1962. | C．In 1968. |
| A．Jazz. | B．Indian. | C．Pop. |
| A．George Harrison. | B．Ringo Starr. | C．John Lennon. |
| A．The fans. | B．The movies. | C．The fashion. |
4 . The living room is cleared. The host taps a wine glass with a knife, and people file in, filling the sofas and chairs that are pushed up against the walls. Soon every seat in the house is taken, and a bottle of schnapps is passed around. Lyon Hansen, who minutes before was knocking about in the kitchen, walks over and picks up a guitar and starts to play. Hoyma has begun.
For one night, homeowners primarily in Sydrugota, a small town on the Faroe Islands, open their doors, inviting friends, family and tourists in to enjoy intimate (亲密的) concerts by local artists. The tradition dates back nearly 500 years to a time when Faroese life had to move underground due to Danish rule. The culture and the language was kept alive in people’s living rooms, where they gathered to sing and tell stories.
The modern Hoyma concert series started as an offshoot (分支) of the G! Festival, an annual musical event on the beaches of Eysturoy every summer since 2002. Around 2007, G! Festival’s creator Jón Tyril, exhausted by all the red tape (繁文缛节) that came with putting on a big music festival, started to dream a little smaller. Specifically, he started to think about tiny concerts held in living rooms—no sound systems or spotlights, the audience made up of as many people as can fit inside a house. The idea resounded in his mind, not only because it didn’t involve any heavy lifting, physically or mentally, but also because it went back to the longstanding Faroese tradition.
Since 2007, Hoyma has featured 20 concerts in ten different family homes in Sydrugota. For Laksá, hosting the concerts is not only fun, but a way to give back, and to ensure the islands survive in the modern world. As in many families, her daughters grew up and left the Faroes. “They studied in the U. K. for nine years, but both came back,” she says. “I actually think that Hoyma is partly the reason why many children from this village that go abroad come back. They are proud of it.”
1. How does the author introduce the topic?| A．By presenting a scene. | B．By evaluating an argument. |
| C．By clarifying a concept. | D．By making an assumption. |
| A．A stage when the G! Festival was needed by the Faroese. |
| B．A period when only local artists were allowed to perform. |
| C．An occasion when people celebrated the encounters with tourists. |
| D．A time when freedom of the Faroese was limited because of Danish rule. |
| A．Economical and varied. | B．Convenient and entirely original. |
| C．Accessible and profitable. | D．Simple and culturally attached. |
| A．Hoyma contributes to the survival of the islands. |
| B．Hoyma reflects the affection between mother and children. |
| C．Hoyma is gaining popularity across the globe in modern times. |
| D．Hoyma becomes enter taining with the involvement of the young. |
5 . Don’t ever tell Angela Alvarez it’s too late for dreams to come true. The old woman just brought home a Latin Grammy for best new artist, becoming the musical award show’s eldest winner ever.
The Cuban American musician’s crowning moment came after decades of writing songs but performing them only for friends and family. Until she was 90 years old, she went to the Avalon and gave her first concert.
“I loved music very much,” Alvarez says. “When I was a child, I had two aunts that played the piano and taught me how to sing. Whenever there was a family gathering, I was the artist; they made dresses for me and I always liked to perform.” Music was always there for her, as it helped her cope with the ups and downs of life: from love and motherhood, to her relentless efforts to reunite her family and the eventual loss of her beloved husband and, years later, of her only daughter, both to cancer.
Listening to many of these songs while growing up was especially influential on her grandson Carlos Jose Alvarez, a professional composer and producer based in Los Angeles who owes his love of music largely to his Nana, as her grandchildren called her. As Angela was getting on in years without ever recording any of her work, he had an inspiration that made him fly quickly to Louisiana to document each and every one of her songs, for “the legacy of our family”.
“I hope this entire project inspires young people to sit down and talk to their elders. Ask them questions. Ask them about the dreams they had once upon a time. They will be surprised at what they will find,” Carlos concludes. “If we don’t ask them, they won’t tell us, and their wisdom and dreams will leave with them.”
“There are people who give up, but I did not give up, and I always fought,” Angela said during her wining speech. “I promise you that it’s never too late.”
1. What can we learn about Angela’s experiences?| A．Angela’s songs are all about family love. | B．Music provides strong support for her life. |
| C．Angela becomes the most successful musician. | D．Angela is always dreaming of giving a concert. |
| A．Inspiring and determined. | B．Generous and adorable. |
| C．Efficient and ambitious. | D．Adventurous and creative. |
| A．To show the ups and downs of Angel’s life. |
| B．To encourage the elder to pursue their dreams. |
| C．To provide a history of the Latin Grammy Awards. |
| D．To highlight Angela’s achievements as an elder musician. |
1. What role does the woman wish to take in the school play?
| A．The violinist. | B．The writer. | C．The actress. |
| A．The guitar. | B．The violin. | C．The guzheng. |
7 . Mary Dickins had been a member of the audience at poetry nights before and knew “the poetry clap”. She made a polite tapping of fingers. But when she made her debut (首次演出) as a performer at the age of 62 at the legendary Bang Said the Gun night in south London, she said, “It was so wild — like nothing I had ever seen before.” The audience stamped their feet and shook shakers. “It felt transformative. I thought, ‘I’ve got to have more of this,’ ” Dickins said. Becoming a performance poet has given her a place on a stage of her own making.
All her life she has written, mostly without being seen or heard. Her mother died when she was nine, and, after she went into a care home at 13, Dickins’ writing stayed in notebooks. Really, she says, a lot of her adult life has been about getting over childhood shyness. At university — she studied education — she met her husband of 40 years, but in three years of seminars she did not say a word. Some of this results from her years at the children’s home. She says, “It gave me a sense of what it’s like to be excluded. I never fitted in anywhere.”
After she graduated, she discovered that she loved working with people with learning disabilities. She became an expert in inclusive education. “That was my niche (称心的职业),” she says. She published books and returned to the University of North London as a senior lecturer in early childhood studies.
Dickins now sees that in adulthood she has been giving herself permission to be silly. “The sillier I allow myself to be, the better the writing is,” she says. Her observations are humorous.
“Putting things into words and giving shape to your emotions is an important part of coming to terms with the things that happen in life,” she says.
Does she still feel like an outsider?
“I think I’ve made it into a virtue. I celebrate the fact that I don’t fit into a box. Finally! You have to wait till you’re 62 to feel confident!” she says. “But I have a sense of who I am and I'm proud of it. I wouldn’t be anyone else now — and it took me a long time to say that.”
1. How did Dickins feel about her debut?| A．Calm. | B．Awkward. | C．Stressed. | D．Encouraged. |
| A．Her immature writing style. | B．Her experience at the care home. |
| C．Her struggle with her university studies. | D．Her difficult relationship with her husband. |
| A．It makes her land a good job. | B．It sharpens her sense of humor. |
| C．It enables her to get on well with her life. | D．It helps her overcome her learning disabilities. |
| A．Mary Dickins’ New Start after 60 | B．Mary Dickins’ First Performance |
| C．Mary Dickins’ Troubled Writing Career | D．Mary Dickins’ Impact on Performance Poets |
8 . At the age of 12, I withdrew into my bedroom with my guitar. I had neither musical talent — many
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| A．added | B．tailored | C．expected | D．failed |
| A．Besides | B．Instead | C．Therefore | D．However |
| A．fruitless | B．matchless | C．effortless | D．senseless |
| A．wished | B．allowed | C．required | D．invited |
| A．masked | B．rooted | C．set | D．stuck |
| A．waited for | B．passed by | C．departed from | D．stayed with |
| A．exchange | B．reason | C．foundation | D．priority |
| A．relationship | B．difference | C．balance | D．similarity |
| A．ignoring | B．avoiding | C．assessing | D．defending |
| A．origin | B．process | C．decision | D．reward |
| A．lack | B．need | C．rush | D．dream |
| A．amazes | B．concerns | C．frightens | D．discourages |
| A．adventurous | B．dangerous | C．memorable | D．horrible |
| A．impression | B．performance | C．scene | D．harmony |
| A．pursued | B．accepted | C．interpreted | D．analysed |
| A．Confident. | B．Impatient. | C．Worried. |
| A．Dancing. | B．Walking. | C．Singing. |
