Question

   Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her 6         concert. She had been waiting for this 7         for years and years. “Now it is here at last，” she thought. “ How beautiful her 8 is!”

The song made her 9         to the days when she was at Lauren’s 10        . As a young 11        ，Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied 12         inFrance,Italyand in theUnited States. “You can become a fine 13         in the future，” her teachers told her. “But you must be 14         to study hard and work for many years. There will be 15         time for anything but music in your life. ”

Dorothy was 16         at that time and she was 17         that music was all she wanted or needed to 18         her life. For almost a year Dorothy 19         of nothing else. Then she 20         David，a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in 21         David asked her to be his 22        . Dorothy also wanted to

marry David. But she loved 23        ，too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer.

He said，“If you want to be a singer,you must forget about getting married. You can’t 24         do both. ”

Thus her days were gone and would never return. Now Lauren became a singer instead of her,which was her 25        .

6.  A. last   B. successful

   C.  first   D. wonderful

7. A.  dance   B. moment       C.show   D. party

8. A. voice   B. face       C.dress   D. life

9. A.  think of   B. bring back

   C.go back   D. come back

10. A.  age   B. friend   C. mother   D. teacher

11. A.  musician   B. pop star

   C.  lady   D. girl

12. A.  French   B. music   C. piano   D. dance

13. A.  actress   B. student   C. singer   D. dancer

14. A.  prepared   B. learned   C. driven   D. waited

15. A.  some   B. any   C. no   D. enough

16. A.  eight   B. eighteen

   C.  eighty   D. eighty-eight

17. A.  lucky   B. sure       C.afraid   D. fond

18. A.  fill   B. live   C. lead   D. take

19. A.  heard   B. knew       C.talked   D. thought

20. A.  saw off   B. learned from

   C.  heard of   D. met

21. A.  love   B. feeling   C. music   D. touch

22. A.  assistant   B. teacher   C. wife   D. student

23. A.  him   B. engineering

   C.herself   D. music

24. A.  certainly   B. possibly   C. only   D. mainly

25. A.  thought   B. hope   C. purpose   D. will

Answer 1

6. C由下文的“这一刻她等了好多年了”来看，这里说的是女儿第一次演出。  

7. B由下文可知，Dorothy Brown也曾学习过音乐，但由于认识David并结婚而影响了自己在音乐方面的发展”' 现在正好让女儿来完成自己的心愿。由此可知，她盼望这一时刻好多年了。 

8. A 由今天她的女儿Lauren将举办演唱会可知，此处说的是她的声音真美。

9. C女儿的演出使她想到了自己和女儿一样年纪时候的事情。下面是回忆自己以前学习音乐的情况。go back I to the days…意为“回忆起……的日子”。

10. A

11.D当Dorothy还是个小女孩时，她想成为一名歌唱家 .

12. B由上下文可知她曾在法国、意大利和美国学习过音乐。 

13. C由上下文可知，此处是老师告诉她，她以后有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家。

14. A be prepared to do sth表示“准备好做某事”。

15. C要把全部时间用于音乐，不能用在其他方面。

16. B由Dorothy遇到了 David并与他结婚等来看，当时她的年龄不可能是8岁、.80岁或88岁，当时Dorothy为 18岁比较合理。

17. B

18. A听了老师的话，再加上当时她只有]8岁，她确信音乐是充实她生活的全部内容。fiirone’s life为“填充生活，充实生活”之意。

19. D有将近一年的时间Dorothy什么也不想。这里指的是她一心扑在学习音乐上。

20. D前面说“她有将近一年的时间把心思全扑在学习音乐上”，这里说的是“接着她遇到了在欧洲旅游的I) a-vid”，这动摇了她学习音乐的念头。

21. A从下文David要娶她为妻及Dorothy也想嫁给他来看，这里说的是他们见面后不久就相爱了。fall in love (with sb/sth) 意为“爱上某人或某物”。

22. C从上文他们相爱可推测，此处说的是David要娶她为妻。

23.D  Dorothy也想嫁给David,但是她也爱音乐，她不知道怎么办，在结婚与学习音乐方面产生了矛盾。

24. B David说当歌手和结婚，二者不可能兼得。possibly 可以与can't连用，表示“不可能”。

25. B