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s eyes? A. Some women in the old community are her friends. B. Her new friends are on her kids'

emergency contact list for school. C. Her new friends come to help when she has a problem. 听力答案:1―5 BABAB 6―10 BBABC 11―15 ABCAB 16―20 CACCA 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;

每小题2分,满分30分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在题卡上将该项涂黑. A Donald Gould, a homeless man, was seen playing a moving cover of Styx'

s Come Sail Away on a public piano that was placed in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the city'

s Sarasota Keys Piano Project. The moving performance was caught on camera and uploaded to Facebook where it went viral with more than 2.3 million views and over 93,000 shares. Gould'

s newfound viral fame has certainly come as a shock to the 51-year-old. I was thinking I could just put my hat on the piano and make a couple dollars and get tips, Gould said. I didn'

t expect it to jump out to this. The 51-year-old, who'

s affectionately known as Boone to the community, turns out to be a regular on the keys and runs through five songs a day for the public from Billy Joel'

s Piano Man to Bach'

s Toccata. Gould'

s piano-playing has delighted people in Sarasota and now the Internet. But there'

s a heartbreaking story behind the musician. He first lost his job and then lost his wife and son in 1998. He ended up in Sarasota and began playing music with Paul Lonardo, another musician. Now, things may be looking up for Gould. Someone who saw the video reached out to local restaurant Surf Shack, which offered to allow the 51-year-old try out for a position as a possible actor for their bar. Others have also wowed us with their musical performances. A homeless man named Ryan shocked people last year with a beautiful performance on an outdoor public piano in Canada. Similarly, David Allen, another homeless man, shocked people with some wonderful piano playing on a thrift store piano, even moving one listener to tears. He started to play, and I choked on my coffee and it started coming out of my nose, listener James Maynard said. I had tears coming to my eyes when I saw his fingers go down one end of the piano to the other. 【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文,介绍了一个无家可归的人――唐纳德?古尔德.他在公共钢琴上的即兴演出被传到网上后点击率超过2百多万,而且还被分享9万多次,轰动一时. 21. What can we know about Donald Gould? A. He uploaded his performance to Facebook. B. He teamed up with David Allen to give performances. C. His performance enjoyed wide popularity on the Internet. D. Donald Gould will live a happy life with his wife and son. 22. Donald Gould performed on the public piano in order to _______. A. gain fame and fortune B. earn some extra money C. look back on the old good days D. relax himself and entertain others B 细节理解题.根据文章第二段中的 I was thinking I could just put my hat on the piano and make a couple dollars and get tips 可知,他演出的目的是为了挣点钱,故选B. 23. The underlined word wowed in Paragraph

6 can be replaced by _______. A. exchanged B. armed C. shocked D. linked C词义猜测题.根据后面作者列举的两个例子可知很多其他的流浪汉也能演奏出优美的音乐,这让人们非常震惊,故选C. 24. Who was moved to tears when listening to piano playing? A. James Maynard. B. Donald Gould. C. David Allen. D. Paul Lonardo. A细节理解题.根据文章末段可知James Maynard在听音乐时被感动得流泪了,故选A. B What would it be like to live on Mars? Volunteers are spending eight months in an area that looks much like the surface of Mars. They are isolated high on top of Mauna Loa, a volcanic mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii, living on a simulated, or make-believe, Mars Base. The project called HI-SEAS is in the charge of Kim Binsted. She says this wild environment is as close to Mars as you can find on Earth. Because it is so high, the land is not warm or rich with plants, like the rest of Hawaii. You will see there is really no visible plant life or animal life. And you have got this wonderful volcanic material. Mauna Loa, 2,500 meters above sea level, is geologically very similar ........