Unit 2 The Olympic Games reading课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　The composing career of Albert Roussel got off to a changeable start, and received one of its biggest successes from a lie.

　　Roussel became an orphan (孤儿) at the age of eight and went to live with his __1__. He built on the __2__ he had learned from his mother, __3__ himself by reading through the family music collections and playing popular songs on the piano. Three years later Roussel's grandfather __4__， and his mother's sister took him in. Her husband arranged (安排) for young Albert to __5__ piano lessons. Summer vacations at a Belgian __6__ added a second love to his life - the sea. He studied to be a soldier in the navy, __7__ still made time to study music.

　　In the French Navy, he and two __8__ found time to play the music of Beethoven and other composers. Roussel also began __9__. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his first public __10__ as a composer. That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow naval friends __11__ to show it to a __12__ conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel's friend __13__ with the manuscript (手稿), he reported that Colonne had __14__ Roussel to give up his naval career and __15__ his life to music.

　　Not long __16__， at the age of 25, Roussel did just that. He applied the qualities that he had __17__ in the navy to his composing and became a major force in the twentieth century French music. As for Edouard Colonne's __18__ advice that Roussel should devote his life to music, Roussel's naval friend later __19__ that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel's manuscript to the __20__.

　　语篇解读：无论生活中发生什么，都无法改变阿尔贝·罗素对音乐的挚爱。好友一个美丽的谎言，愈发坚定了阿尔贝·罗素追求音乐的信念，并使其最终成为20世纪法国乐坛的重要人物。

　　1．A.grandfather　　　　　　 B．sister

　　C．aunt D．uncle

　　解析：选A　根据第二段中的"Three years later Roussel's grandfather"可知选A。

　　2．A.story B．melody

　　C．music D．poem

　　解析：选C　根据全文的主题及下文中的"reading through the family music collections"可知，此处应选"music"。

　　3．A.reminding B．entertaining

C．controlling D．understanding