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On December 23, 2008, Niu Niu held a piano concert at the national Grand Theater (国家大剧院). As an eleven-year-old boy, he became the youngest pianist ever to perform a concert at the theater.
Never too young to learn
Niu Niu was born into a musical family in Xiamen. His father Zhang was a piano teacher. Niu Niu grew up listening to his father’s students playing the piano. At just three years old, Niu Niu asked his father to teach him to play, too.
“I gave Niu Niu some sheet music and helped him find the eight notes when he first played the piano. To my surprise, he played nearly 80 percent correct,” said the father. He used to think that three years old is too young an age to learn piano, but Niu Niu changed his mind. He continued to allow Niu Niu to watch his teaching of other students and gave him more sheet music to play.
Playing for fun
Zhang started teaching Niu Niu standard piano lessons when he was four. Unlike many other piano teachers, Zhang didn’t insist that Niu Niu play strictly with the correct finger positioning (位置). He said that the strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing. So Niu Niu could play in his own way. He could play the tone successfully. But Niu Niu was required to play the music without looking at the sheet music. Now he can remember about 80 pages.
Rising to fame
In 2003, at the age of 6, Niu Niu successfully held a sole concert in his hometown Xiamen. At the age of 8, he gave a performance at the International Piano Festival in France. At the age of 10, Niu Niu played in London and his performance was praised by Prince Charles. Last year, this young pianist published his first album “Niu Niu Plays Mozart” and over 10,000 copies have been sold in the world.
We are very glad to see a young Chinese pianist rising in the music world.
1.How old was Niu Niu when he performed a concert at the National Grand Theater?
2.What was Niu Niu’s father?
3.What did Niu Niu’s father feel when Niu Niu played nearly 80 percent of the sheet music correct?
4.What did Niu Niu’s father say about the strict finger positioning?
5.What do you think of Zhang’s way of teaching his son Niu Niu? （请自拟一句话作答）
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There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy trying to make 1. m ▲ in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They hardly say “I love you” or send flowers to each other. Besides, my father has a bad temper (脾气). It is 2.e ▲ for him to lose his temper 3.w ▲ he’s very tired from the hard work. I didn’t know whether there was love between them until one spring. At that time, my father 4.s ▲ got badly sick. My mother had to stay with him in the5.h ▲ for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very weak as if both of them had a serious illness.
After they were back, my mother helped my father6.w ▲ slowly on the country road every day in the morning and dusk. 7.H ▲ , after two months my father still couldn’t walk by 8.h ▲ . All of us were worried about him.
”Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t9.w ▲ about me.” he said in a low voice. “I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother very much.
Once I thought love meant10.f ▲ , presents and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is inside, making life strong and warm.
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1.Susan has a good time on her birthday every year. (改为否定句)
Susan ▲ ▲ a good time on her birthday every year.
2.Xiao Li paid more than 4,000 yuan for his new iPhone 4? (对划线部分提问)
▲ ▲ did Xiao Li pay for his new iPhone4?
3.The manager told them to be more creative in their work. (改为被动语态)
They ▲ ▲ to be more creative in their work.
4.Some children are so young that they can’t tell the bad from the good. (保持句意基本不变)
Some children aren’t ▲ ▲ to tell the bad from the good.
5.Rose went to the car exhibition yesterday. Danny went there, too. (保持句意基本不变)
▲ Rose ▲ Danny went to the car exhibition yesterday.
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1.Williams ▲ his students a wonderful speech on Manners last Wednesday.
2.The Greens and the Browns ▲ next door to each other for many years.
3.Lucy ▲ for London on business in three days.
4.—Were you at school when he came to see you?
—Yes, I ▲ a math class.
5.Betty will ring me up when she ▲ in Beijing.
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1.This shop sells all kinds of ▲ from different countries.
2.I hear that her uncle has bought a new flat in the city centre ▲ .
3.Jack won the ▲ prize in the school reading contest and he felt very excited.
4.He had to make a ▲ between staying with his parents and going abroad.
5.You know Mike’s hobby is playing football, but ▲ is collecting stamps.
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1.She loves taking photos and always takes her ▲ (照相机) wherever she goes.
2.Now that they have a baby, they ▲ (很少，不常) get the chance to go to the cinema together.
3.It will be Mike’s twelfth ▲ (the day of one’s birth) next Saturday.
4.With the help of the police, Tim was ▲ (having good luck) enough to get back his lost bike.
5.Tom did very badly in the maths test. Poor him! He ▲ the test again.
