One day about 30 years ago, a 2 year-old Chinese boy in Shenyang was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon on TV. Tom the cat began to play the piano. The music was to beautiful that the boy fell in love with it at once. This little boy was Lang Lang – one of today’s great pianists.

Lang Lang began to play the piano at 3. By the age of 5, the had won fist place in Shenyang’s piano competition and performed his first public recital(獨奏會). People were shocked by his perfect performance and thought he was a real talent. From that time on, playing on the global stage became the dream of Lang and his parents.

To help him much closer to his dream, when Lang was 9, his father quit his job and went with Lang to Beijing to help his son study piano. There, Lang did not receive the praise that he had received at home, and he experienced the hardest time of his life.

“I was kicked out of the class by my piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream,” Lang said in an interview on a Chinese TV program. Hearing about his son’s failure, Lang’s father was so furious(暴怒的) and frustrated(沮喪的) that he told Lang either to go back to Shenyang, or to commit suicide( 自殺). Feeling hopeless and in pain, Lang tried to damage his fingers by crushing(砸) them against a wall. He hated piano!

Luckily, another teacher noticed Lang’s sadness and encouraged him. Success came soon. Lang’s breakthrough came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at a well-known concert in 1999 in Chicago, US.

56. We can know from the first paragraph ______

A. Tom the cat came from Shenyang

B. Lang Lang could play the piano at the age of 2

C. Tom the cat got Lang Lang interested in piano

D. Jerry is 30 years old

57. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 3?

A. To give in       B. To give up

C. To give out      D. To be out of work

58. When did Lang’s breakthrough come?

A. At age 3.       B. At age 5.

C. At age 9.       D. At age 17.

In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic(技工). One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl  36  to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl  37  the mother would not return to her eggs and she  38  to take them home. There she carefully  39  the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days  40  the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the  41  .

Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother.  42  , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.

As they  43  , the girl was able to  44  her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to  45  . The girl became increasingly worried about this , both when  46  and in her dreams. Later, she had an  47  : She would pilot a plane to guide them in  48  . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled(組裝) a small aircraft for her.

Caring about  49  safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not  50  or follow him, and  51  slept in the grass.

One day ,the girl  52  into the plane, started it and soon left the  53  . Seeing their mother take off to the air, the birds  54  flapped(拍打) their wings and  55  . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.

36. A. managed           B. attempted               C. happened                       D. supposed

37. A. realized             B. expected                C. imagined                D. admitted

38. A. helped              B. decided                  C. afforded                 D. meant

39. A. placed             B. protected                C. treated                   D. examined

40. A. ago                  B. out                               C. later                      D. long

41. A. family              B. lake                       C. home                      D. world

42. A. But                  B. Also                       C. Thus                     D. Still

43. A. increased                 B. improved                C. rose                       D. grew

44. A. ask                   B. lead                       C. want                      D. allow

45. A. fly                   B. race                       C. swim                     D. sing

46. A. asleep               B. away                     C. around                         D. awake

47. A. idea                  B. opinion            C. explanation             D. excuse

48. A. sky                  B. heaven                  C. flight                     D. plane

49. A. his                   B. her                               C. their                      D. its

50. A. respect             B. remember               C. recognize               D. receive

51. A. so                    B. instead                   C. hardly                    D. too

52. A. climbed            B. looked                    C. reached                  D. fell

53. A. house               B. floor                      C. water                     D. ground

54. A. secretly            B. disappointedly         C. patiently                 D. eagerly

55. A. looked away     B. set out            C. went by                 D. turned back

 Neither statement Mr Black made yesterday ___ true.

A. is     B. was     C. are      D. were

 It is reported that many a new building in the area ____

A. need repairing     B. needs repairing    

C. need to repair     D. needs to repair

 _____ made them much disappointed．

       A．His not coming back                  B．Not his coming back

       C．He not to come back                 D．Not he come back

 It’s a waste of time           him. He is no longer in charge now.

A．a(chǎn)sking       B．to ask      C．a(chǎn)sked          D．a(chǎn)sks

 —He will come tomorrow.

—But I’d rather he          the day after tomorrow.

A.will come                    B.is coming        C.came               D.had come

 I would appreciate_______ back this afternoon.

A. you to call   B. you're calling   C. your calling   D. you call

 This picture was taken a long time ago.I wonder if you can       my father.

A.find out         B.pick out     C.look out           D.speak out

 It is wrong for us to ___ others however poor they are.

A. look down upon   B. look up to   C. look after   D. look through