Question

Luciano Pavarotti (卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂) is one of all-time Italian tenor(男高音歌手)superstars．(1) He is famous not only in but also in other parts of the ．Unfortunately for the world, in his home town of Modena (蒙得那),Italy , (2)他因癌症(cancer)于2007年9月6日去世。The world mourned(哀悼)the loss of the great tenor superstar．

“When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of songs,” Pavarotti remembered．“He encouraged me to work hard to develop my voice,

Arrigo Pola, an experienced tenor in my home town ,took me as a pupil．I also entered a teacher college ．On graduating（毕业）, I asked my father, what shall I be, a teacher or a singer?”

“Luciano” my father replied, “If you try to sit on two chairs, you will fall between them ．For life, you must choose one chair．”

“I choose one．It took seven years of study and hard work before I made my first appearance on the stage．It took another seven years to reach the Metropolitan Opera．I think whether it’s laying (砌) bricks, writing a book ——No matter what we choose, we should devote ourselves to it．”

Pavarotti’s successful career shows that we should put all of our effort into the chosen post (岗位),then we’ll succeed surely．

1.在（1）句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整，上下文通顺： ，

2.将（2）句译成英文：________________________________________

3.In Chinese, the word “experienced” in paragraph 2 means_________________

4.找出文中与下列句子意思相近的句子：After I studied and worked hard for 7 years, I appeared on the stage for the first time．

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5.写出文中最能表达该短文主题的句子：

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