The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”
Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship.
At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”
【小题1】The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .

A．China

B．France

C．Canada

D．the United States

【小题2】Marc played the piano at the age of        for the first time.

A．two

B．five

C．six

D．nine

【小题3】According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “     ” in Chinese.

A．使……理解	B．使……担心
C．使……惊奇	D．使……难过

【小题4】At present Marc practices playing the piano        .

A．once a month	B．eight hours a day
C．in his free time	D．only on weekends

【小题5】What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that       .

A．he likes challenges	B．he doesn’t like challenges
C．he is afraid of challenges	D．he wants to be happy and famous.

The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”

Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship.

At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”

1.The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .

A．China            B．France            C．Canada           D．the United States

2.Marc played the piano at the age of        for the first time.

A．two              B．five              C．six               D．nine

3.According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “     ” in Chinese.

A．使……理解                           B．使……担心

C．使……惊奇                           D．使……难过

4.At present Marc practices playing the piano        .

A．once a month                          B．eight hours a day

C．in his free time                         D．only on weekends

5.What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that       .

A．he likes challenges                      B．he doesn’t like challenges

C．he is afraid of challenges                  D．he wants to be happy and famous.

 

根据短文意思，用括号中所给同的适当形式填空。

Nobody likes ________( stay )at home on a public holiday especially(特别地)if the weather is fine . Last August we decided ________( spend )the day in the country . The only difficulty was that many people had just the same idea . We ________( move )out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars , but at last we ________( come )to a quiet country mad , and after some time, stopped at a farm far from the town. We had bought plenty of food with us, and we ________( get )it out of the car . Now everything ________( be )ready , so we ________( sit )down near a path(小路)at the foot of a hill . It was very quiet in the cool grass until we ________(hear)bells ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw ________( make )us pick up all our things and run back to the car quickly . There ________( be )about two hundred sheep coming towards us down the path .