英语：2012届广东省中山市桂山中学高二下学期期中考试201104.docVIP

桂山中学2010-2011学年度第二学期期中考试（2011.4） 高二 英语 完形填空：（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30） My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon. I tried as hard as I could to remain 1__, but I had an empty feeling in my stomach. I stared down at my sweat covered, __2____hands. I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were 3______ people. They were not just my mum and dad, who ___4___ say, Good job! even if I messed up the entire piece. What if I had the wrong music? What if I played the wrong notes? As it turned out, I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight was _5___ for me. I grasped my hands tightly together, drying off the sweat. Slowly I walked to the mulberry piano in the center of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys, which were waiting impatiently to be played．I swallowed the golfball-sized lump（隆起的） in my throat and sat down. __ 6____, I opened the music．Next, I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory keys. As my fingers played across the keys, I was becoming more __7__ of my preparation for this moment. But the memory of my year of training came flooding back. I knew that I had practiced this piece __8___that I could play it backwards if __9____. Although at one point I accidentally played two keys __10__ the intended one, I continued to move my fingers automatically （自动的）. My eyes burned holes into the page in front of me. There was no __11__ that I was going to lose my concentration. To keep this promise to myself, I leaned _12__and focused carefully on the music． _13___1 came to the end of the page, a warning appeared inside my head: DON T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU TURN THE PAGE! Needless to say, I 14 myself with all my heart and mind．And, proud of my turning feat（技艺） I finished the rest of the piece without making a single mistake. After the final note died away, a celebration went into action __15___ my head．1 had finished．I had mastered （征服）the impossible. 1．A．unknown B．still C．calm