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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

　　Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. His father and grandfather were both musicians.

　　Beethoven revealed his own musical talents when he was young. At the age of 7 he was playing in public.

　　In 1787 Beethoven travel to Vienna and met his idol, Mozart. In 1792 he became a pupil of Haydn's but was dissatisfied with his method of teaching. In order not to offend the famous master, he took lessons in secret from another composer, Joan Schenk.

　　Nevertheless, he quickly became famous. Then tragedy struck. He discovered that he was slowly becoming deaf．This was the great crisis of his life.

　　After this, Beethoven's music became more profound. He developed a completely original style of composing. It reflected his violent emotions, his sufferings, and joys. At this time Beethoven composed the most popular of all symphonies, his fifth, Fate, in which he expressed a musical depiction of his struggle with the fate of deafness.

　　In 1826 Beethoven became seriously ill, and on March 26, 1827, he died. The life of Beethoven is the life of a great artist who was also great as a man. His genius enlarged the language of music, for his composition speak to the world of the struggles, aspirations and triumphs of the soul. They are deeply emotional and expressing the feelings of all humanity in their beauty. His character was a noble one. People respect him for his great genius and love him for goodness and purity of his soul. Through grief and misfortune he bravely fought a lifelong battle with fate in order to be worthy of his high ideals. He was a man of profound vision and his music had deeply moved its listeners for generations.

1．In 1792, ________ was Beethoven's teacher.

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2．Which of the following is true?

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A．He died at the age of 56.

B．His parents were both good at music.

C．He was not pleased with Haydn's method of teaching.

D．In his fifth, Fate, he showed his struggle with the fate of war.

3．What's the meaning of the underlined word “offend”?

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4．In the text, the author mainly tells us about Beethoven's ________.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项．

　　About 150 years ago, a musician sat quietly at a corner in Vienna while his new symphony was played for the first time. At the end, he __1__ the audience to know that they were clapping wildly. He was totally deaf. The musician was Beethoven, one of the greatest __2__ who ever lived.

　　Beethoven wrote about 300 pieces of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces __3__ he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But probably it is __4__ for a composer than anyone else. Think of not being able to __5__ the music you have written. Even as a child, Beethoven did not have a __6__ life. His father, who was a singer in Born, Germany, drank a great deal, and was __7__. When the boy was only four, his father decided to __8__ a musician of him. Hour after hour Beethoven had to __9__ on the violin and clavier. Whenever he did not work hard, his father was __10__.

　　 It is a __11__ that the boy did not __12__ music. He learned so fast that he was able to make a __13__ when he was only 11. When he was 17, the great musician Mozart praised him. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna to __14__ with Haydn. Soon he was writing a great deal of music__15__.

　　Beethoven had an ugly face and a __16__ temper. But he also had a great deal of __17__. The wealthy people of Vienna ___18____ him time after time to their homes. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him deaf when he was only 31. During the ___19___ of his life, he was often ill. He was often worried about money, too.

  Beethoven wrote long compositions and short ones, gay ones and sad ones, gentle ones and __20___ ones. his nine symphonies are all his masterpieces.