Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I 1 that students begin at an earlier age, but, Rohby said that it had always been his mother's 2 to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.

　　Hard as Robby tried, he 3 the basic sense of music. However, he persisted and at the end of each weekly 4 he'd always say,"My mom's going to hear me play someday." But, it seemed 5 I only knew his mother from a distance as she 6 Rohby off or waited in her aged car to pick him up. She always 7 and smiled but never stopped in. Then one day Robhy 8 coming to our lessons. He telephoned me and said his mother was 9 Several weeks later I was preparing my students for the upcoming recital(实习公演) 10 Robby came and asked me if he could be in the recital. "Miss Hondorf.. I've just go to 11 !"he insisted.

　　The night for the recital came. The high school gymnasiurn was 12 with parents, friends and relatives. The recital went off well. Then Robby came up on stage. I was 13 when he announced that he had chosen Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major(莫扎特的C大调21号协奏曲). I was not 14 . what I heard next. His fingers were light on the keys. They even 15 鼓掌). In tears I ran up on 17 . "Oh Robby! How'd you do it?"on the keys... He played so well that everyone was 16 their feet in wild applause (

　　"Well Miss Hondorf... I kept on 18 at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, 19 she had cancer and passed away this morning. And well.., she wasborn deaf, so tonight was the 20 time she ever heard me play... "

　　1. A. prefer B. conclude C. suppose D. wish

　　答案：A 指导：prefer后面跟从句表达作者的“意愿”，意为“宁愿……”。

　　理解了此处作者是想表达自己的“意愿或建议”，便可排除conclude"得出结论”、suppose"假定、假想”;wish也可表达“意愿”，但一般为不可实现的愿望，后面跟虚拟语气。

　　2. A. plan B. belief C. suggestion D. dream

　　答案：D 指导：听他演奏一直是母亲的“梦想”。

　　由后文可得出答案，排除plan"计划”、belief"信念”和suggestion"建议”。

　　3. A. showed B. lacked C. hid D. held

　　答案：B 指导：前面出现让步状语从句，因此此处只能理解为：尽管他练得很卖力，但“缺乏”基本的乐感。

　　show"表现出”与正确的理解正好相反;hid"隐藏”，held“怀有”，也不合题意。

　　4. A. test B. lesson C. show D. trial

　　答案：B 指导：此处是指每周“上课”结束后，罗比总是满怀信心。test"测试”，show"演出”，trail"实验”，均不符合此处罗比每周上课，但进步不大这一语境。

　　5. A. successful B. wonderful C. senseless D. hopeless

　　答案：D 指导：罗比尽管练习很卖力，但总是没有进步，因而作者认为他“没有希望”。这儿是作者对罗比下的定论。successful"成功的”，wonderful"绝好的”，显然与作者的结论正好相反;senseless意为“无感觉的”或“愚蠢的”，对人显然有侮辱的意味。作者此处对罗比决无侮辱的意味。

　　6 A. put B. sent C. dropped D. saw

　　答案：C 指导：drop sb.off表示的意义与picks sb.up正好相反。picksb.up是用车“拉客”而drop sb. off的意思是“让某人下车”。此处指罗比的母亲在罗比练钢琴时，总是用车接送他。

　　此处考查固定短语，其他搭配都不能表示此含义。putoff意为“推迟”后面不能跟表示人称的名词;sendsb.off意为“打发某人走”;see sb. off意为“为某人送行”。

　　7. A. waved B. left C. waited D. rose

　　答案： A 指导：此处表示罗比的母亲很友好，总是向作者“挥手”、“微笑”。做好本题的关键第一是把握罗比的母亲有礼貌，第二是注意与后面动词smiled的并列关系。根据上述两点，可排除left和waited;rose意为“站起来”，前面因为没有信息表明罗比的母亲坐着，因此也不合逻辑。

　　8. A. continued B. broke C. stopped D. finished

　　答案：C 指导：选对此题答案必须联系后面，罗比打电话说他母亲生病了，因此可以断定此处罗比“停止”来上课，是为了照顾母亲。首先broke后面不跟动名词，continue与后面矛盾，finish doingsth.意为“停止干……”，而此处从后文看，作者的音乐课并未结束。

　　9. A. unhapply B. disappointed C. sick D. deaf

　　答案：C 指导：从后文罗比的母亲得了癌症最后去世便可得出答案。注意罗比此处用了sick一词，说明罗比不想让作者知道母亲真实的病情。

　　10. A. as B. while C. since D. when

　　答案：D 指导：when用作并列连词，当“正在这个时候(突然)"……”讲，往往说明动作的突然性。 while，as，since都可引导时间状语从句，但都不能表示动作或事情的突然性。

　　11. A. succeed B. learn C. play D. come

　　答案：C 指导：从后文看，此处表示罗比强烈要求登台“演奏”。learn，come都与下文罗比登台演奏没有联系;如选succeed“成功”，这儿显然也没有把握罗比的愿望。

　　12. A. seated B. held C. packed D. mixed

　　答案：C 指导：此处指大厅中挤满了人。be packed with=be crowded with.

　　beseated作主语的一般是人;hold表示“容纳”时，不用于被动语态;bemixedwith意为“与·....·混杂”。

　　13. A. surprised B. angry C. happy D. certain

　　答案：A 指导：此处表示作者也没有想到罗比会选择这么难的曲目，故非常“惊讶”。

　　联系上文，罗比一直缺乏音乐才能，而且很长时间没来上课，可排除其他选项。

　　14. A. pleased with B. interested in

　　C. clear about D. prepared for

　　答案：D 指导：此处表示作者对罗比下面的演奏也没有心理准备。be prepared for意为“为……做好准备”。此处还是表示作者的“吃惊”，因此可排除其他三项：be pleasedwith"对……满意”;be interested in"对……感兴趣”;bedearabout"对……很清楚”。

　　15. A. slipped B. danced C. flew D. ran

　　答案：B 指导：此处表示罗比演奏得非常熟练、精彩，手指在琴键上像“跳舞”一般。slip意为“滑倒”;flow意为“流动、飞奔”;run"跑”，都不能形容罗比弹钢琴时手指的熟练。

　　16. A. off B. at C. against D. on

　　答案：D 指导：be。none'sfeet意为“站起来”，此处观众都站起来为罗比的精彩演奏鼓掌。

　　17. A. stairs B. platform C. stage D. floor

　　答案：C 指导：作者本人也很激动，因此跑上了“舞台”。此处罗比演奏完毕仍在舞台上，由此可排除其他选项：

　　stairs意为“楼梯”;platform意为“站台、讲台”;floor意为“地板”。

　　18. A. practising B. singing C. listening D. helping

　　答案：A 指导：罗比虽然中断了钢琴课的学习，在家照料母亲，但一直在“练习”弹钢琴，因此才有今天的成功。

　　19. A. unfortunately B. therefore

　　C. however D. actually

　　答案：D 指导：此处罗比说明母亲生病去世的真相，因此用actually，相当于infact.therefore"所以”，however"然而”，都不符合此处上下文的逻辑关系;unfortunatel/‘不幸的是”，干扰性很大。但前面出现的是问句，用于引出对真相的叙述，故unfortuanately也不能顺承上文。

　　20. A. last B first C. best D. worst

　　答案：B 指导：从前文可知，罗比的母亲耳聋，因此不能听他演奏，罗比认为只有她去世后才能在天堂听他演奏，故应是“第一次”。把握了上文的叙述，再联系罗比的愿望和心理，此处其他选项便不难排除。