To ________ their children's success in their studies most parents have done what they can.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Think of some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect us in many ways — emotionally, physically and mentally.
But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera（歌剧）star Carol Vaness.
At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way she breathes.
“When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going underwater, ” Carol explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs.”
According to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like speaking, and it’s a lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often surprised by how the vibrations strike their ears — like waves on a beach, ” Carol says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth — it vibrates in your chest, the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”
Ever since she started piano lessons at the age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice – the highest singing voice for women.
Carol decided to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions(情感) expressed by words and music come to life.
Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe and she has song for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she started singing in the first palace.
“Put your heart into your singing and enjoy it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings.”
According to the passage, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City _____.
A. is a five-story building B. can seat 4,000 people
C. has no microphone in it D. can project the singer’s voice
What is the best title for this passage?
A. Opera Singing and Pop Singing B. The Way an Opera Star Sings
C. An Opera Star D. Singing without a Microphone
Which statement is true?
A. A pop singer breathes more deeply than an opera singer when he or she sings.
B. Opera singing is more like speaking.
C. A pop singer takes in much more air than an opera singer when singing.
D. An opera singer breathes differently from a pop singer when singing.
From the passage you can conclude all the following EXCEPT that _____.
A. Carol once learned to play the piano
B. Carol worked as a music teacher
C. Carol has been singing opera for 20 years or so
D. Carol is popular with Americans and Europeans
The sentence “Put your heart into your singing” in the last paragraph means “_____”.
A. devoting yourself to singing B. taking trouble to sing
C. singing happily D. trying your best to sing
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根据句意及所给首字母，填入一个合适的单词。（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）
At last he was p____________ to take his brother’s advice.
A stay in the country will be b______________ to his health.
They decided to buy some new e_____________ for the lab.
A customer was talking with the manager, with their hands c_________.
You don’t seem very e______________ about the suggestion.
They are looking forward to a___________ that old play to their needs.
She is not generous at all. She is always m_________ with her money.
D___________ to his research, he always forgets to have dinner.
The lack of rain could s__________ disaster for farmers.
Speech and writing are man’s most important methods of c____________.
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科目：高中英语 来源：0910学年广东省湛江市高一第一学期期末考试 题型：完成句子
第一节 完成句子(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
71.The twin brothers have many similar (特征).
72.______________ (感到兴奋) with the exam result, my mother took me on a trip around China.
73. R (粗略地) speaking, we receive about fifty letters a week on the subject.
74.Dressed in white (制服), they look more like cooks than doctors.
75.After (划分) the books into five parts, they were much easier to be handed out .
76.You don’t sound e (热心的) about the ideas.
77.To their c (赞扬), the twins never told anyone exactly what had happened
78.He is a man whose actions are often (一致的) with his words.
79.You can easily c (弄清) the problems if you study British history.
80.For their c_____________, they took a shortcut and arrived work in time.
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第一节 完成句子(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
71.The twin brothers have many similar (特征).
72.______________ (感到兴奋) with the exam result, my mother took me on a trip around China.
73. R (粗略地) speaking, we receive about fifty letters a week on the subject.
74.Dressed in white (制服), they look more like cooks than doctors.
75.After (划分) the books into five parts, they were much easier to be handed out .
76.You don’t sound e (热心的) about the ideas.
77.To their c (赞扬), the twins never told anyone exactly what had happened
78.He is a man whose actions are often (一致的) with his words.
79.You can easily c (弄清) the problems if you study British history.
80.For their c_____________, they took a shortcut and arrived work in time.
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