单选题He wrote lots of books, and he also liked ______ . He was an actor.A readingB writingC actingD playing

A、He is intelligent and confident

B、He likes playing football

C、He is quite tall with fair curly hair

Which of the following is true of the author?

A.He got no access to success.

B.He wrote back to his father at 12.

C.He was surk his parents loved him.

D.He whce asked his father about the letter.

Why did David decide to leave school and start working?

A．He received lots of job offers.

B．He was eager to help his mother.

C．He lost interest in school studies.

D．He wanted to earn his own living.

About 150 years ago，a musician sat quietly at a concert in Vienna. He was playing his new symphony. He couldn‘t (11) that the audience were clapping wildly. He was deaf. He was Beethoven，one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.

Beethoven wrote about 300 (12) of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces after he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But it is even worse for a musician than for (13) else. Think of not being able to hear the music you have written!

As a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father drank (14) .When the boy was only four，his father decided to make a musician (15) him. Hour after hour he had to practice (16) the violin. He learned so fast that he was able to make a concert tour when he was eleven. When he was seventeen，the great Mozart praised him. After he studied with Haydn. Beethoven was writing a great deal of music (17) .

Beethoven had an ugly face and a bad temper. He was often invited (18) the homes of wealthy people. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him become deaf when he was (19) thirty-one.

Beethoven wrote long pieces and short ones，gentle ones and (20) ones.

A. hear

B. listen

C. listen to

D. hear of

A.he, it

B.he, them

C.they, him

D.he, they

Not only ______ the gift, he ______ the sender.

A、did he refuse; criticized

B、did he refuse; also criticized

C、he refused; also criticized

D、he refused; criticized

Not only _______ a promise, but he also kept it.

A、did he made

B、he made

C、did he make

D、he makes

My grandfather was a completely different person before he had a stroke. He worked as a chief accountant, and he worked really long hours. People used to say that he was a workaholic. When he came home, he was always tired and this used to make him irritable. He didn't use to be sociable at all. He used to spend a lot of time alone working in the garden. I used to be frightened of him as a child. He used to shout at us all the time. Then, suddenly he became ill, and then the doctors told him he had to give up work. He changed almost overnight. His attitude to lots of things changed. He relaxed and spent time with his grandchildren. When he died, I think he was a really happy, relaxed man.

(1). My grandfather used to ().

A、drink a lot

B、work very hard

C、be the manager

(2). He was () when he came home.

A、 very pleasant

B、excited

C、easy to get angry

(3). When I was a child, I ().

A、 liked him very much

B、I hated him

C、was afraid of him

(4). Doctors asked him to ()after he had a stroke.

A、 stop working

B、change his attitude

C、work less

(5). When he died, he ().

A、 was feeling worried

B、was irritable

C、was a happy man

____, Sam knows lots of things about philosophy.

A As he is young B As young he is C Young as is he D Young as he is

Passage Five

Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and make a lot of money, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn't know about".

So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing himself. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.

One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.

It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.

When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there."

52. What Jim said can be said to be______.

A. an excuse

B. a lie

C. a joke

D. a truth

A、somewhat

B、in a way

C、anywhere

D、anyway

There are many misunderstandings about American Indian names

A.He had done something odd

B.American Indians liked to give nicknames

C.He was courageous

D.He liked the animal best

Peter liked music very much when he was at school, but when he went to the university,he decided to study medicine instead. After he passed the examinations and became a doctor, he had to work in a hospital for some time. There he discovered that a lot of patients were happier and less worried about their illnesses if they could hear pleasant music. When Peter became a surgeon and began to work for himself, he decided to keep his patients happy by having a tape recorder in his waiting room, playing beautiful music for them. But soon after the tape recorder was put in the waiting room, Peter’s nurse heard a woman who was sitting in the crowded waiting room one morning complain, "Here we’re all waiting to see the doctor, and he’s just playing the piano in his office instead of doing his work!"

31. Peter liked music when he was at school.

A. T B. F

32. Peter had to pass some examinations after he became a doctor.

A. T B. F

33. Peter decided to play music for his patients because he couldn’t leave music.

A. T B. F

34. Peter put a recorder in his waiting room.

A. T B. F

35. The woman complained because she thought Peter wasn’t working.

A. T B. F

Not only ______ study well,but also he is always ready to help others.

A. he does

B. he did

C. does he

D. did he