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第4课时 Assessing Your Progress & Video Time [见学生用书P46]
Ⅰ.完形填空
A friend of mine is a musician.He __1__ seems to be learning new tunes,new __2__,and new ways of making music in cool ways.At weekends,he __3__ to go into Central Park in the centre of Nagoya during the daytime where lots of bands __4__.Some of these bands are really good,but some of them are quite __5__.One of the reasons why my friend likes __6__ all the bands is that they are __7__!And as he says to me,“__8__ expensive things don't necessarily mean that they're good,free things don't necessarily mean they have no __9__.You have to listen and look yourself and __10__ what is valuable for you.And __11__,as you listen and look,you may learn different things.”
So my friend goes to the __12__ every week when the weather is fine,and he says he learns __13__ from every single band!When he watches and listens to the really good bands,he learns new concertos(协奏曲)from the __14__ and cool rhythms from the drummers.I guess that it's not __15__ that you can learn a lot by watching __16__ performers.But what really __17__ me are my friend's words—“You can learn by watching and listening to the bad performers,too.When I watch a bad performer,I think to myself—wow,that's another thing that I'm going to __18__.”
So my friend makes __19__ by learning from both good and bad performers.And he says he also finds __20__ and pleasure in learning and improving in ways that he never even imagined!
语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者的一个做音乐的朋友,他喜欢去公园看各种街头乐队的免费演出,不论是演奏得好还是不好,他都能从中得到帮助。
( D )1.A.finally B.quickly
C.seldom D.always
( C )2.A.games B.systems
C.instruments D.languages
( A )3.A.loves B.wishes
C.agrees D.affords
( B )4.A.compete B.perform
C.study D.succeed
( A )5.A.poor B.shy
C.unlucky D.fierce
( B )6.A.forming B.watching
C.inspiring D.training
( D )7.A.right B.familiar
C.famous D.free
( C )8.A.Since B.For
C.While D.Unless
( D )9.A.price B.fault
C.soul D.value
( A )10.A.find out B.wait for
C.bring out