Question

Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she talked about how she became a percussion soloist（打擊樂器獨奏演員）in spite of deafness.

   “Early on I decided not to allow the   1   of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began   2   piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion（酷愛）for music grew. But I also began to lose my   3 . Doctors told me that the nerve damage(神經損傷) was the  4  and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never left me.”

  “My   5   was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I learned to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can  6  the pitch of a note（音調高低）by the vibrations（振動）I feel through my body and through my imagination. My sound world exists by making use of almost every   7  that I have.”

  “I decided to be a musician even though I was deaf, and applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had   8   this before and some teachers disagreed with me. Because of my performance, I finally entered the academy and went on to  9   with the academy’s highest honors a few years later.”

  “I’ve been a soloist for more than ten years. 10   the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t mean that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be limited by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”

【小題 1】A. conditions     B. opinions         C. advantages   D. recommendations

 A. enjoying        B. choosing         C. taking           D. giving

【小題 3】A. sight          B. hearing          C. touch            D. taste

【小題 4】A. evidence       B. result               C. excuse       D. cause

【小題 5】A. job            B. opinion          C. promise      D. goal

【小題 6】A. tell           B. see              C. hear         D. smell

【小題 7】A. feeling        B. effort               C. sense            D. idea

【小題 8】A. done           B. accepted         C. advised      D. refused

【小題 9】A. study          B. offer                C. graduate     D. educate

【小題 10】A. As            B. Although         C. Because      D. Since

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

【小題 1】B

【小題 2】C

【小題 3】B

【小題 4】D

【小題 5】D

【小題 6】A

【小題 7】C

【小題 8】A

【小題 9】C

【小題 10】B

【解析】

 此題考查名詞，根據上下文可知，此處應選擇opinoins,意思是觀點或看法。

 此題考查動詞，固定短語take a lesson,意思是上課。

 此題考查名詞，根據上文的“deafness”提示可知，選擇B。

 此題重點考查名詞，根據語境可知選擇D.

 此題考查名詞，根據語境可知，他的理想或愿望是成為一名打擊樂演員，故選D.

 此題考查動詞，根據語境可知“我”根據震動來辨別音的高低，故選B.

 此題考查名詞，根據語境可知，“我”通過每個感官來感覺聲音。

 此題考查動詞，根據句意可知，以前沒有一個聾啞學生這樣做過。

 此題考查動詞不定式做目的狀語。

 此題考查連詞，連接讓步狀語從句，表示“盡管”之意。