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Although I love my life ,it hasn't been a lot of fun as I've been ill for 28 years

     Music has always been a great love of mine and ,in my 20s,when my_21_was move manageable ,I  22  ten years as a professional singer in restaurant .playing and singing falk songs.  23 that was years ago and times have changed . __24__ I live with my mother on a country farm .

      Two years ago,I decided that I would need to love some kind of extra work to _25_ my disability pension (殘疾撫恤金）._26_ I needed to sleep in afternoons.I was limited in my  _27_I decided that I would consider    28      to singing in restaurants.

     My family are all musicians ,so I was _29 when I went into our local music store .I explained that I waned to sing again but using  recurded knraoke music I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn't have a lot of  _30  to get started ,And    31     you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can __32__use.

When I told the owner of the shop about my    33   ,he gave me a long use the gave me a long ,thoughtful  __34__.

“This means a lot to you , doesn't it ?"be said . “Come with me.”

He led me    35   the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand   36  on his treasure and said . “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your   37    and I´ll record them for you .That should get you started.”

I   38   . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose   39  that I could sing . I have come full circle with his help.

His   40  still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra , which I have the chance.

1.  A. loneliness   B. sadness     C. tiredness      D. sickness

2.   A. set          B. enjoyed     C. kept           D. shared

3.   A. Gladly       B. Eventually  C. Unfortunately  D. Surprisingly

4.   A. Now          B. Then        C. Some time      D. Meanwhile

5.  A. add up to    B. make up for  C. get nd of   D. take advantage of

6.   A. If          B. As            C. Though     D. Before

7.   A. movement    B. condition     C. choices    D. positions

8.   A. reaching out  B. living up   C. getting on  D. going back

9.  A. recognized     B. interviewed C. found      D. invited   

10.  A. money         B. time        C. energy      D. knowledge

11.  A. thus          B. ones        C. seldom      D. often

12.   A. actually      B. hardly      C. nearly      D. formerly

13.  A. job           B. family      C. idea        D. offer

14.  A. face          B. view        C. look        D. sight

15.   A. over          B. along       C. towards     D. through

16.  A. Unhappily     B. lovingly    C. pitifully   D. gratefully

17.  A.pick            B. turn        C. role        D. step

18.  A.had to cry  B. ought to cry  C.should have cried  D. could have cried  

19.  A.more           B. the ones       C. few       D.the rest

20.  A.courage       B. devotion    C. kindness      D.rust

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D           

2.B

3.C

4.A

5.B

6.B

7.C

8.D

9.A           

10.A

11.D

12.A

13.C

14.C

15.D

16.B

17. A          

18.D

19.B

20.C

【解析】

【文章大意】本文介紹一位殘疾人在熱心人的幫助下重新開始自己心愛的歌唱事業(yè)的情感故事。

1.

D 由下文disability pension (殘疾撫恤金）可知作者是一個殘疾人。選sickness。

2.

由文章知道作者熱愛唱歌，所以選enjoyed。

3.

由下文可知I live with my mother on a country farm .形成轉(zhuǎn)折，作者殘疾了。當然是Unfortunately。

4.

現(xiàn)在作者和他的母親住在一個農(nóng)場了。

5.

作者殘疾了，決定做額外的工作來彌補殘疾補償金的不足。

6.

考查連詞。as引導(dǎo)時間狀語從句。當……時候。

7.

因為作者要睡覺，所以找的工作的機會就少了。

8.

因為工作機會少，作者原先在飯店唱歌，現(xiàn)在他想返回去唱歌掙錢。

9.

因為我的家庭都是音樂人，作者本身帶有音樂人的那些特指，當作者去當?shù)氐囊魳飞痰辏�就被認出來了是音樂人。

10.