Unit 5 Music reading课时作业

I.完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

　　As a child, I started learning to play the piano，my favorite musical 1 ， but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school 2 I could concentrate more on my studies.

　　It's one of my biggest 3 to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today.During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 4 ．However，I didn't keep my promise because I was 5 with my study. 6 I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been 7 that I never returned.I haven't taken lessons since then but to be honest, I 8 to.Sitting at the piano，I couldn't help recalling many 9 -times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher 10 me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so 11 that I could hardly say anything.But her 12 helped me ease my shame.These memories， 13 ， good or bad, never caused my 14 for playing the piano again.

　　This thought then led me to think that 15 is like music，and that we all try to play different 16 in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch(音高) is 17 when we play it well，but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own 18 style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is 19 that we sing the songs of joy，quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons，it doesn't 20 that I've stopped making music.

　　【语篇解读】　本文主要介绍了作者学习弹钢琴的经历，告诉我们：人生就像音乐，无论我们的音乐风格是什么，唱快乐、平静和爱的歌才是重要的。

　　1．A.instrument B．performance

　　C．room D．stage

　　A　[孩提时，我开始学习弹奏我最喜欢的乐器(instrument)--钢琴，但是，当我上中学时，为了(so that)能够更加集中注意力学习，我被迫放弃了。]

　　2．A.in that B．so that

　　C．now that D．except that

B　[参看上一题解析。故选B。]