1.If you want to enjoy the Ballet Opera “Swan Lake”, go to Shanghai Grand Theatre_________.
A. on April 20    B. on April 21        C. on April 22          D. on April 27
2.Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son and one daughter who study at a primary school. The tickets for the Ballet Opera “ Sleeping Beauty ” cost the family _______ yuan.
A. 720          B. 420               C. 540              D. 320 
3.South Lane Xintiandi most probably is a place where people ___________.
A. watch films     B. listen to concerts    C. visit shows          D. play soccer
4.Visitors who come to Shanghai for a twenty-day holiday may miss the_______, if they arrive on April 21.
A. photo show                       B. Jazz Week
C. concert by Singapore singers        D. Opera “ Sleeping Beauty ”
5.If you are interested in Jazz and feel like watching it, the number ______ may be helpful.
A. 6322-4352    B. 6352-2314         C. 6217-3055        D. 6386-1818

Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) sent him to have his first piano lesson. I prefer that students begin at an earlier age, but Robby said that it had always been his mother’s   1  to hear him play the piano. So I   2  him as a student.

Although Robby worked very hard, he didn’t have a basic   3  of music. However, he never   4  up and continued. And at the end of each weekly lesson he’d always say: “My mom is going to hear me   5  some day.” But it seemed   6 . He didn’t have a natural talent or ability for music.

One day Robby   7  to our lessons very late. He told me that his mom had been 8  and unable to take him to piano lessons, but he was still   9  in class. He asked if he could take part in my concert and I   10 .

The night of the concert came. The high school gym(体育馆) was   11  with parents, friends and relatives. The concert was going well. Then, Robby came up on stage. He announced (宣布) that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto No 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I heard next.   

His   12  danced on the keys…

He played so   13  that everyone was on his feet, clapping excitedly. In tears, I ran up on stage, “Oh, Robby! How could you do it?”

“Well, Miss Hondorf... remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, actually she had cancer(癌) and   14  away this morning. And well… she was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play at the   15 . I wanted to make it special and show her I could do it! My mother’s dream came true at last.”

1.                A．decision        B．conclusion      C．advice    D．dream

2.                A．considered      B．accepted        C．knew D．protected

3.                A．sense          B．education       C．information    D．thought

4.                A．got            B．gave           C．stood D．put

5.                A．sing           B．speak          C．play D．call

6.                A．cheerless       B．helpless        C．hopeless  D．meaningless

7.                A．listened        B．flew           C．came D．went

8.                A．asleep         B．deaf           C．well D．ill

9.                A．writing         B．practicing       C．singing   D．talking

10.               A．agreed         B．disliked         C．expected  D．decided

11.               A．satisfied        B．bored          C．crowded  D．familiar

12.               A．fingers         B．feet           C．arms  D．legs

13.               A．carefully        B．cheerfully       C．meaningfully   D．wonderfully

14.               A．took           B．passed         C．moved    D．ran

15.               A．party          B．concert        C．meeting   D．show

Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes.
Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and
at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly when they drive
streets. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio when they drive to work. They also listen to the News about sports, the weather, politics（政治）, and activities of the American people. Most of the radio broadcast is music.  
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state(州). Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Whenever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies（协奏曲） of Beethoven.
【小题1】Almost every American student likes_________.                   .