1 . 从方框里选择合适的词语的适当形式填空。

A.advisable     B.appreciate     C.encounter D.concert     E.usually AB.earn     AC.transportation AD.love     AE.accessible     BC.independently       BD.mission

The New York subway system is one of the largest in the world, ferrying nearly eight and a half million people around the city every week. Riders find more than    1    below the streets; among the dirt and the screech of the trains,there is also music.The subway system is like a free    2    hall,offering almost every kind of music.

You never know what you might    3    ,depending on the day of the week and the particular station.At a subway platform below Pennsylvania station one afternoon recently,Rawl Mitchell, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago,was playing the steel drums. He said he's been performing in the subway since the mid-1990s. “The people do    4    the music,"he said."They stand around listening and if it pleases them,they applaud and put their money in the case or whatever.They    5    clap and say things like 'It's nice.' They offer me some positive feedback.”

Singer-songwriter Rosateresa, who often sings on a station at 14th Street, has been at it almost as long.She moved from Puerto Rico to study classical voice several decades ago."My    6    is to sing like the jilguero,a Puerto Rican bird, which wakes up the sun,” said Rosateresa.

Mitchell and Rosateresa both perform    7    ,outside the transit authority's official "Music Under New York” program, which sponsor 150 performances each week, by more than 200 individuals and groups.

Like Rosateresa and Mitchell,Musicians who participate in “Music Under New York"    8    only whatever people choose to give.Opera singers Tom McNichols and Patricia Vital,part of a group called“Opera Collective",said they    9    performing in the subways, though it isn't lucrative. "Music in general is not about money, and 'Music Under New York' is definitely more about making opera     10     than it is about making a living,"McNichols said.

2 . 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.

Art occurs in many forms: music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, cinema, and literature, among others. Works of art can make people feel moved, even to the     1     of tears. In the case of Stendhal syndrome,   however,   this   feeling   is   so     2     that   a   person   can   experience a rapid heartbeat, dizziness, sweating, or fainting. It may even require hospitalization. In the Italian city of Florence, numerous visitors viewing the     3     Renaissance art there have experienced this and have required medical     4     Though not professionally recognized, this condition— now     5     to as Stendhal syndrome —does exist.

While great art is found in every civilization, Florence has been especially     6     A small city with a historical center, it is internationally admired for its amazing     7     of   Renaissance art. Florence in the 15th and 16th centuries attracted the talent of many geniuses: artists, scientists, and authors were welcomed here. Some of the greatest Western works of art can be found in Florence, such as the statue of David by Michelangelo, The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, and the frescoes（壁画）by Giotto in the Basilica of Santa Croce. In addition, Leonardo da Vinci left works here. Galileo Galilei and Niccolo Machiavelli are buried here.

The syndrome is named after Stendhal, a French author who visited Florence in 1817. He described his experience of being fascinated by the historic and artistic power of the city in one of his   books. Though the   term   Stendhal   syndrome   was   not     8     until   1979     by     Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, the illness had already had a long history. Patients   usually recover within days of their attacks without any     9     drug other than rest and quiet. For them, the     10     of viewing the power and beauty of Florence is a brief trip to a hospital.