时事热点09 世界名人传记类常考热点-冲刺2022年高考考英语阅读理解常考话题专练

时事热点 冲刺2022年高考英语阅读理解 世界名人传记类 （原卷版） (2019·江苏高考·D) 话题:人物传记　　 词数:652　　 难度:★★★★☆ The 65-year-old Steve Goodwin was found suffering from early Alzheimer’s (阿尔兹海默症).He was losing his memory. A software engineer by profession, Steve was a keen lover of the piano, and the only musician in his family.Music was his true passion, though he had never performed outside the family. Melissa, his daughter, felt it more than worthwhile to save his music, to which she fell asleep each night when she was young.She thought about hiring a professional pianist to work with her father. Naomi, Melissa’s best friend and a talented pianist, got to know about this and showed willingness to help. “Why do this?” Steve wondered. “Because she cares.” Melissa said. Steve nodded, tears in eye. Naomi drove to the Goodwin home.She told Steve she’d love to hear him play.Steve moved to the piano and sat at the bench, hands trembling as he gently placed his fingers on the keys. Naomi put a small recorder near the piano.Starts and stops and mistakes.Long pauses, heart sinking.But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger. “It was beautiful.” Naomi said after listening to the recording.“The music was worth saving.” Her responsibility, her privilege, would be to rescue it.The music was sill in Steve Goodwin.It was hidden in rooms with doors about to be locked. Naomi and Steve met every other week and spent hours together.He’d move his fingers clumsily on the piano, and then she’d take his place.He struggled to explain what he heard in his head.He stood by the piano, eyes closed, listening for the first time to his own work being played by someone else. Steve and Naomi spoke in musical code:lines, beats, intervals, moving from the root to end a song in a new key.Steve heard it.All of it.He just couldn’t play it. Working with Naomi did wonders for Steve.It had excited within him the belief he could write one last song.One day, Naomi re