高考英语二轮复习：第一部分专题二任务型阅读（七选五）1-2素能特训.docVIP

　　建议用时：50分钟 Ⅰ.完形填空 [2015·山西四校联考三]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. Its 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 didnt 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 havent taken lessons since then but to be honest, I ___8___ to. Sitting at the piano, I couldnt 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 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 doesnt___20___that Ive stopped making music. 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 答案：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。performance“表演”；room“房间”；stage“舞台”。故A项正确。 2．A.because B．so that C．now that