1 . Evelyn Glennie is a unique musician. She is a percussionist (打击乐手) who plays with classical orchestras. When she performs, she hits the gongs, snare drums, vibraphones, timbales, cymbals, conga drums, bells, and bass drums that are in front of her. Although classical musicians usually wear formal clothes in concert, Glennie performs in bare feet. What really sets her apart, though, is that she is a musician who can not hear. Glennie has been almost totally deaf since she was 12 years old. Despite being deaf, she has become the first solo star to play her type of percussion instruments in classical music.

Glennie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. At the age of eight, she started taking piano lessons. She found that she preferred the drums, so she began to concentrate on other percussion instruments. Her doctors were never able to find out why she started to lose her hearing. By the time Glennie was 12, most of her hearing was gone. Glennie stayed in her school and learned to read lips. She also continued her music lessons. She learned how to play percussion instruments by using her sense of touch. She learned to feel the difference between high and low notes. She became very sensitive to the vibrations created by different sounds. Glennie took off her shoes to make it easier for her to feel the vibrations made by her instruments.

Glennie was very talented. At 16 she was accepted to the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. She was the music school’s first solo percussion student, graduating when she was 19. To build her career, she performed anywhere she could. There was very little solo music written for her instruments, so she asked for percussion music to be written for her. She then performed the new pieces in her solo concerts. Glennie attracted attention by performing in radio and television concerts. One 1988 concert was recorded live and made into a CD. This recording earned Glennie her first Grammy Award for a classical music performance.

Today Glennie performs all around the world. In addition to classical orchestras, she plays with folk musicians and rock stars. She has written music for movies, television shows, and commercials. Every year more new compositions are written for Glennie to perform. She has even taken up a new instrument: the bagpipes. Glennie considers herself a pioneer in music, not because she is deaf but because she has become a solo percussion star in classical music.

1. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Glennie wears formal clothes when she performs.

B．Glennie was talented in music.

C．Glennie entered the Royal Academy of Music when she was only 12 years old.

D．Glennie hates to play with other musicians.

2. What makes Glennie so different from other musicians?

A．She can performs kinds of musicial instruments

B．She liked taking off her shoes when she performed.

C．She is a musician who can’t hear.

D．She is a pioneer in music.

3. In the future, Glennie will most likely________.

A．always perform with other musicians in concert	B．quit playing classical music in concert
C．learn to play other musical instruments	D．focus on studying the piano again

4. Which is the best summary of the passage?

A．Deaf as she is, Evelyn Glennie is an award-winning solo percussionist who performs mainly classical music.

B．When Evelyn Glennie found that there was little music written for solo percussionists, she didn’t give up

C．Although classical musicians usually wear formal clothes in concert, Evelyn Glennie performs barefoot.

D．Evelyn Glennie lost her hearing at a young age, and doctors were never able to find out why.

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Music fans got a chance to appreciate the beauty of guzheng, an stringed instrument with more than 2,500 year of history. Yuan Sha, a celebrated guzheng soloist had presented a performance -based lecture on Chinese musical culture titling Zheng & Poem in New York on Oct 11. The event, what was organized by the Bureau for External Relations of the Ministry of Culture of China, begin with a lecture by Yuan. After the performance, the audience was invited try to play simple American songs on the guzheng. Yuan said music is a language with borders. Yuan hopes Zheng & Poem can play a positively role in drawing Chinese and American people closer spiritually and strengthen friendship by advancing a deeper understanding of each other.