A 21-year-old German tourist, who wanted to visit his girlfriend in Sydney，Australia,   1   13,000 kilometers away near Sidney, Montana, in America after mistyping his   2   on a flight booking Web site.   3   for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany for a four-week   4  . 

    Instead of arriving in “down-under(指澳大利亚)”, Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for (飞向---) the cold state of Montana．

    “I did wonder but I didn’t want to say   2  ,” Gutt told the Bild newspaper. “I thought to myself, I can fly to Australia via (经由) the United States.”

    Gutt’s airline ticket routed him via (=through) the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, MontanA．Only when he was about to   6   a flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his   7  .

    The   8   tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter   9  , spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros (欧元) in cash that his   10   sent over from Germany.

“I didn’t notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers,” his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

1. A．broke                  B．landed              C．parted                     D．took

2. A．name                  B．number            C．date                        D．destination

3. A．Prepared             B．Sent                C．Dressed                  D．Misled

4. A．holiday             B．walk                C．flight                      D．voyage

5. A．nothing            B．anything           C．something               D．everything

6. A．book                   B．escape             C．enjoy                      D．board

7. A．mistake            B．dream              C．loss                        D．way

8. A．lovely                 B．lonely              C．poor                       D．clever

9. A．snow                  B．temperature      C．cold                       D．time

10. A．girlfriend           B．parents            C．bank                       D．company

Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz(爵士音乐) singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and feelings.
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. They were young when their daughter was born. Their marriage failed because Clarence Holiday was often out. He traveled as a musician with some of the earliest jazz bands and inspired his daughter.
Sadie Fagan cleaned people’s houses to make a living. But she could not support her family with the money she earned. So she moved to New York City where the pay was higher. She left her daughter in Baltimore with one of her distant relatives.
The young girl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star, Billie Dove. The talented Billie Holiday loved singing. She sang and listened  to music whenever she could. In one place near her home there was a machine that played records. The building was a theater where many famous singers also performed their newly-made songs for free.
Billie cleaned floors and did other jobs for the theater so that she could listen to the records. It was there that young Billie first heard the records of some famous black American blues artists of the 1920s. she heard Bessie Smith sing the blues. And she heard Louis Armstrong play the horn. Both musicians had a great influence on her.
Billie Holiday once said, “I do not think I’m singing. I feel like I am playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know.”

1. 1.

   Billie Holiday’s parents divorced because _______

   1. A.
      Sadie Fagan wanted to move to New York City
   2. B.
      the family couldn’t support itself
   3. C.
      Clarence Holiday spent too much time in working
   4. D.
      Clerence Holiday was a strange person
2. 2.

   Who might originally have had an influence on Billie Holiday’s career in music?

   1. A.
      Sadie Fagan
   2. B.
      Clerence Holiday
   3. C.
      Bessie Smith
   4. D.
      Louis Armstrong
3. 3.

   From the passage, we can learn that ______

   1. A.
      Sadie Fagan was fond of living in New York
   2. B.
      Clerence Holiday didn’t love his wife at all
   3. C.
      Billie lived a happy childhood
   4. D.
      Billie had a gift for music
4. 4.

   The underlined sentence “ What comes out is what I feel” means _____

   1. A.
      Billie Holiday doesn’t like to sing for others
   2. B.
      Billie Holiday’s songs reflect her unhappy childhood
   3. C.
      Billie Holiday is fond of the songs written for herself
   4. D.
      Billie Holiday’s music is greatly determined by her emotions
5. 5.

   In order to listen to the records in the theater, Billie Holiday_______

   1. A.
      cleaned floors for the theater
   2. B.
      changed her name
   3. C.
      moved to New York
   4. D.
      separated from her parents

Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz(爵士音乐) singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and feelings.

Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. They were young when their daughter was born. Their marriage failed because Clarence Holiday was often out. He traveled as a musician with some of the earliest jazz bands and inspired his daughter.

Sadie Fagan cleaned people’s houses to make a living. But she could not support her family with the money she earned. So she moved to New York City where the pay was higher. She left her daughter in Baltimore with one of her distant relatives.

The young girl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star, Billie Dove. The talented Billie Holiday loved singing. She sang and listened  to music whenever she could. In one place near her home there was a machine that played records. The building was a theater where many famous singers also performed their newly-made songs for free.

Billie cleaned floors and did other jobs for the theater so that she could listen to the records. It was there that young Billie first heard the records of some famous black American blues artists of the 1920s. she heard Bessie Smith sing the blues. And she heard Louis Armstrong play the horn. Both musicians had a great influence on her.

Billie Holiday once said, “I do not think I’m singing. I feel like I am playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know.”

1.Billie Holiday’s parents divorced because _______.

A．Sadie Fagan wanted to move to New York City

B．the family couldn’t support itself

C．Clarence Holiday spent too much time in working

D．Clerence Holiday was a strange person

2.Who might originally have had an influence on Billie Holiday’s career in music?

A．Sadie Fagan        B．Clerence Holiday.    C．Bessie Smith.       D．Louis Armstrong

3.From the passage, we can learn that ______.

A．Sadie Fagan was fond of living in New York

B．Clerence Holiday didn’t love his wife at all

C．Billie lived a happy childhood

D．Billie had a gift for music

4.The underlined sentence “ What comes out is what I feel” means _____.

A．Billie Holiday doesn’t like to sing for others

B．Billie Holiday’s songs reflect her unhappy childhood

C．Billie Holiday is fond of the songs written for herself

D．Billie Holiday’s music is greatly determined by her emotions

5.In order to listen to the records in the theater, Billie Holiday_______.

A．cleaned floors for the theater              B．changed her name

C．moved to New York                      D．separated from her parents

Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz(爵士音乐) singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and feelings.
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. They were young when their daughter was born. Their marriage failed because Clarence Holiday was often out. He traveled as a musician with some of the earliest jazz bands and inspired his daughter.
Sadie Fagan cleaned people’s houses to make a living. But she could not support her family with the money she earned. So she moved to New York City where the pay was higher. She left her daughter in Baltimore with one of her distant relatives.
The young girl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star, Billie Dove. The talented Billie Holiday loved singing. She sang and listened  to music whenever she could. In one place near her home there was a machine that played records. The building was a theater where many famous singers also performed their newly-made songs for free.
Billie cleaned floors and did other jobs for the theater so that she could listen to the records. It was there that young Billie first heard the records of some famous black American blues artists of the 1920s. she heard Bessie Smith sing the blues. And she heard Louis Armstrong play the horn. Both musicians had a great influence on her.
Billie Holiday once said, “I do not think I’m singing. I feel like I am playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know.”
【小题1】Billie Holiday’s parents divorced because _______.