Question

For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students,     across the campus with their heavy instrument cases.       at school for practice hours      anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to   music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

_____, one day, in the music class that was ____of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly （随意地）on the piano and found it _______to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually ____doing it. He tried to hide his ____pleasure from the music teacher, who had ____over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, ____the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good ____ and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there __48__ him. There he decided to give the cello（大提琴）a ____. When he began practicing, he took it very ___. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was ____to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This ____, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, ____ his heavy instrument case across the campus to the ____ looks of the non-musicians he had left ____.

1.A. travelling         B. marching         C. pacing         D. struggling

2. A. rising up         B. coming up         C. driving up     D. turning up

3. A. before           B. after              C. until         D. since

4. A. betray           B. accept            C. avoid         D. appreciate

5. A. Therefore        B. However          C. Thus         D. Moreover

6. A. part             B. nature            C. basis          D. spirit

7. A. complicated       B. safe              C. confusing      D. easy

8. A. missed          B. disliked            C. enjoyed       D. denied

9. A. transparent      B. obvious            C. false         D. similar

10. A. run            B. jogged            C. jumped        D. wandered

11. A. because         B. but                C. though       D. so

12.A. ear            B. taste               C. heart        D. voice

13. A. occurred to       B. took to           C. appealed to      D. held to

14.A. change         B. chance             C. mission       D. function

15. A. seriously   B. proudly   C. casually   D. naturally

16. A. committed   B. used    C. limited    D. admitted

17. A. proved    B. showed   C. stressed   D. meant

18.A. pushing    B. dragging   C. lifting     D. rushing

19.A. admiring   B. pitying   C. annoying    D. teasing

20. A. over    B. aside    C. behind     D. out

Answer

1.D

2.D

3.A

4.C

5.B

6.A

7.D

8.C

9.B

10.D

11.B

12.A

13.C

14.B

15.C

16.A

17.D

18.B

19.B

20.C

【解析】

1.根据“with their heavy instrument cases”可知，每天上学的时候，Gabriel总是同情地看着背着沉重的乐器的同学们艰难地穿梭于校园中，struggle努力，艰难地行进，斗争，符合语境。

2.根据“ ____at school for practice hours ____ anyone else”可知，学习音乐的同学需要比不学音乐的早到学校几个小时，为了练习弹奏乐器，turn up原意“调高(音量)”，在此意为“出现”，符合语境。

3.“anyone else”指不学音乐的学生，学习音乐的要比规定的到校时间早到几个小时，before anyone else had to be there比规定的到校时间早几个小时。这也是Gabriel不想学习音乐的原因之一。

4.本题需要结合语境进行选择。根据“as he hated getting to school extra early”可知，Gabriel讨厌过早到校，因此他对自己发誓“不学”音乐，A背叛；B接受；C避免，避开；D欣赏。注意单词在文章中的灵活翻译，只有C项符合语境。

5.考查段落的衔接。本段讲Gabriel在一次音乐课上意外发现自己很喜欢音乐，与上一段是转折关系，故选B。

6.考查名词辨析和句意理解。that was ____of his school’s standard curriculurn是定语从句，音乐课是学校的标准课程的一部分，言外之意就是说，每个学生都得上这个音乐课。

7.根据下句“actually... tried to hide... pleasure”等词或词组可以看出，Gabriel在音乐中找到了乐趣，并试图隐藏这份愉悦，由此可知，第38空的意思是“演奏音乐很容易”。只有D项符合语境。

8.根据actually可知，Gabriel对音乐的看法有了变化，他实际上是喜欢音乐的，A/B/D都是有否定倾向的词，不符合语境。

9.Gabriel不想让音乐老师看到自己表露出来的很明显的喜悦之情，transparent指(谎言、借口)易看穿的；obvious明显的，显然的，故选B。

10.音乐老师在教室里来回走动，听到Gabriel弹奏乐器的声音，就走过来聆听。Wander徘徊，游荡。

11.根据“and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments”可知，老师让Gabriel挑选乐器，说明他弹得不够好，钢琴不太适合他，因此是因果关系。

12.老师认为Gabriel有着很好辨音能力，并建议他去挑一件称心的乐器。ear辨音力，灵敏的听力；taste鉴赏力，欣赏力，指对作品的欣赏能力。由于Gabriel没有经过专业的训练，不能说他有很好的音乐鉴赏能力，taste不符合语境。

13.考查词组辨析。occur to sb某人突然想起；take to开始喜欢；appeal to有吸引力，引起兴趣；hold to抓住。老师让Gabriel找一件自己喜欢的乐器。

14.Gabriel准备试一下大提琴，chance机会，给大提琴一次机会，即尝试演奏一下大提琴，其余不符合语境。

15.根据But可知，前后是转折关系，下句说Gabriel发现自己很喜欢大提琴，说明前一句是说他只是随便拉一下。

16.根据“so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well”可知，花了几个月的时间练习之后，Gabriel的大提琴已经拉得非常好了。be committed to sth/ doing sth致力于。

17.本段与第一段呼应。学习音乐意味着早到学校，要把沉重的乐器背来背去，meant在此意为“意味着”。

18.Gabriel也得早到学校练习拉琴，也要拖着沉重的乐器。drag指吃力地拖、拉某物，符合语境。

19.根据“non-musicians”可知，这里指不学音乐的学生的表情，根据第一段可得出答案，应该是pitying。

20.leave aside搁置一边；leave sb/sth behind把......抛在后面，超过；leave out遗漏，不提及。学习音乐就意味着要被其他学生用同情的目光注视，这里指Gabriel走过去之后，身后的学生对他投来同情的目光。