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Stanley Fields, who wrote “Sad, Sad Cowboy”, which won this year’s Philip’s Prize as the best song of the year, might have had a very different job if his parents had had their way.

In an interview, Fields said, “When I was a child, my father always told me I should put down my guitar and do my homework. He wanted me to go to college and become a teacher as he and his brother were.”

Fields explained that he made a great effort to please his father, but often his love of music became too great and he would steal into a garden behind his house and play his guitar and make up song.

“I made it to Stanton College,” he laughed,“but I took accounting(会计)instead of teaching. And to pay my own way, I played the guitar and sang at a local nightclub.”

While Fieldswas still in his senior year(大学四年级), an executive(总裁)of a record company came into the club as he was singing one of his own songs. The executive liked what he heard and signed the man to a contract(合同).

Since graduating from Stanton College in 1973, Fields has spent his full time writing and singing songs. “My Heartache,”a song he wrote while in college, reached number seventeen in the top twenty hit songs of 1974 and in 1977 his song “Rambling”was the song for the movie of the same name.

1. According to the passage, Stanley Fields’__________.

A. parents were teachers

B. mother and brother were teachers

C. father and uncle were teachers

D. aunt and uncle were teachers

2. From this passage, we can learn that Fields_________.

A. wrote no songs before entering college

B. made up songs before entering college

C. began writing songs after attending college

D. had songs published before attending college

3. The underlined phrase “had their way” in Paragraph 1 most probably means“_______”.

A. done as they wished

B. found their way of punishing Fields

C. made conditions easy for Fields’ future

D. prevented Fields from going to college

4. What do you know about “My Heartache”?

A. It was a very popular song.

B. It was a song for the movie of the same name.

C. Fields’ heart was badly hit by someone.

D. Fields’ heart ached when he graduated.

 

答案:C;B;A;A
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C.A Clockwork Orange                     D.Paths of Glory

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B.succeeded in making a great box office

C.became much better at creating classics

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