The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”
Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship.
At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”
【小題1】The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .

A．ChinaB．FranceC．CanadaD．the United States
【小題2】Marc played the piano at the age of        for the first time.
A．twoB．fiveC．sixD．nine
【小題3】According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “     ” in Chinese.
A．使……理解B．使……擔(dān)心
C．使……驚奇D．使……難過
【小題4】At present Marc practices playing the piano        .
A．once a monthB．eight hours a day
C．in his free timeD．only on weekends
【小題5】What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that       .
A．he likes challengesB．he doesn’t like challenges
C．he is afraid of challengesD．he wants to be happy and famous.


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】C
【小題4】B
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：這篇文章講述的是9歲的Marc被稱作小莫扎特，雖然他很矮腿夠不著踏板，他非常喜歡彈鋼琴，也很喜歡挑戰(zhàn)。
【小題1】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章Marc, from California, USA可知，Marc來自美國。故選D
【小題2】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two.可知，Marc第一次表演鋼琴是在兩歲的時候。故選A
【小題3】推斷題。根據(jù)文章It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano.可知，這是他第一次靠近鋼琴，這個使他的媽媽很震驚。Astonished的意思是使……驚奇 故選C
【小題4】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章At present he practices the piano eight hours a day.可知，目前他每天練習(xí)鋼琴8小時。故選B
【小題5】推斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.可知，Marc喜歡挑戰(zhàn)。故選A
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點評：對于說明文的閱讀，學(xué)生要把握所說明的核心內(nèi)容，文章往往通過對這個主題全方位的介紹而設(shè)置題目，所以學(xué)生可以首先對說明核心的各方面進行簡單的瀏覽，而后結(jié)合題目進行仔細的解答，即可迎刃而解。

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