Question

选编（十六）

Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.”

The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.”

Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.

Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___.

1. A. sorry              B. successful           C. first         D. wonderful

2. A. dance              B. moment             C. show          D. party

3. A. voice              B. face                  C. dress          D. life

4. A. think of                  B. bring back           C. go back         D. come back

5. A. age                    B. friend               C. mother                D. teacher

6. A. musician                 B. pop star               C. lady                  D. girl

7. A. French            B. music                C. piano            D. dance

8. A. actress              B. student               C. singer         D. dancer

9. A. prepared           B. learning             C. driven         D. waiting

10. A. some              B. any                    C. no            D. enough

11. A. eight              B. eighteen              C. eighty         D. eighty-eight

12. A. lucky             B. sure                  C. afraid        D. fond

13. A. fill                     B. live                   C. lead          D. take

14. A. heard               B. knew                C. talked          D. thought

15. A. saw off           B. learned from       C. heard of      D. met with

16. A. love              B. feeling               C. music        D. touch

17. A. assistant         B. teacher               C. wife          D. student

18. A. him              B. engineering         C. herself       D. music

19. A. certainly          B. possibly              C. only          D. mainly

20. A. thought         B. hope                C. purpose      D. will

Answer

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【解析】

本文使用倒叙的形式述说了 Dorothy学习音乐的故事。一开始说小女儿举办音乐会，由女儿美丽的歌声想到自己年轻时候学习音乐的情况。Dorothy年轻时很有音乐天赋，先后在法国、意大利和美国学习音乐。不过由于偶遇 David并相爱，为了爱情而放弃了音乐的学习。不过让她可以感到欣慰的是女儿已成为歌唱家，完成了她的心愿。

1. C。由下文的“这一时刻她等了好多年了”来看，这里说的是女儿第一次演出。由于演唱会还没有开始，结果未知，因此可排除选项 A、B和D。

2. B。由下文知道，Dorothy Brown也曾学习过音乐，但由于认识 David并结婚而影响了自己在音乐方面的发展，现在正好让女儿来完成自己的心愿。由此可知，她“盼望这一时刻好多年了”。

3. A。由“今天小女儿 Lauren将举办演唱会”来看，此处说的是“她的声音真美”。

4. C。女儿的演出使她想到了和女儿一般大的时候的事情。下面是回忆自己以往学习音乐的情况。go back to the days…意为“回忆起……的日子”。

5. A。从下面的“当还是一个年轻姑娘时，Dorothy想成为一名歌唱演员”来看，Dorothy在和女儿差不多大的时候也曾学习过音乐。

6. D。当 Dorothy还是个小女孩时，她想成为一名歌唱演员。

7. B。由上下文可知“她曾在法国、意大利和美国学习过音乐”。

8. C。由上下文可知，此处是老师告诉她以后有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家。

9. A。前面说“你有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家”，现在话锋一转，“但是你必须愿意努力学习、刻苦勤奋很多年”。be prepared to do sth表示“有能力并且愿意做某事”。

10. C。这是老师继续说的话：在你一生中要把全部时间用于音乐，不能用在其他方面

11. B。由 Dorothy遇到了 David并与他结婚等来看，当时她的年龄不可能是 8岁、80岁或 88岁，当时 Dorothy为 18岁比较合理。

12. B。／13. A。听了老师的话，再加上当时她只有 18岁，“她确信音乐是充实她生活的全部内容”。fill one’s life为“填充生活，充实生活”。

14. D。有接近一年的时间，Dorothy什么也不想，这里说的是她一心扑在学习音乐上。

15. D。前面说她有一年的时间把心思全扑在学习音乐上，这里说的是“接着她遇到了在欧洲旅游的 David”，这动摇了她学习音乐的念头。meet with意为“遇到，偶然碰到”。

16. A。从下文 David要她做他的妻子及 Dorothy也想嫁给他等来看，这里说的是他们见面后不久就相爱了。fall in love (with sb / sth)意为“爱上某人或某物”。

17. C。从上文“他们相爱”可推测，此处说的是“David要她做他的妻子”。

18. D。Dorothy也想嫁给 David，“但是她也爱音乐”，她不知道怎么办，这就在嫁人与学习音乐方面产生了矛盾。

19. B。下文 David说学习音乐和结婚，“你二者不可能兼得”。possibly可以与 can’t连用，表示“不可能”。

20. B。从上下文特别是 Now Lauren became a singer instead of her可推测，Dorothy想成为歌唱家的愿望由女儿来完成了，故此处用 hope。will往往含有“遗嘱，遗愿”的意思，在此不太合乎情理。