other people’s skills will create a lot of (77) and increase understanding.
So your next step in playing the piano would be seeing how other good musicians play, and repeating their songs and styles of playing.
Step 3 Exploring new and maybe better ways of doing them
Knowing the rules, but then using or breaking them in your (78) style is the basis of creativity. At this point in playing the piano, you might play songs in new ways; or even write songs and melodies (曲调). Being able to explore and improve on ideas requires time and effort to find out different ways of doing something.
Being creative is the useful ability to help solve problems effectively in many different situations. Being creative will often result in lots of ideas, (79) not all of them will be good ideas. That is why being creative is a process of trying and trying again! Being able to come up with new ideas, and then (80) the better ideas, will make your life more successful. So start being creative today! 75. A. why 76. A. copy
B. where B. avoid B. signals B. mean B. unless
C. when C. remind
D. who D. destroy D. experiences D. own D. because D. putting off
77. A. debates 78. A. fair 79. A. since
C. exhibition C. rude C. although
80. A. breaking down
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B. picking out C. getting rid of
B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage (选择最恰当的选项完成短文) (12分)
Rap and Hip-hop may seem like very modern types of music. But in West Africa, storytellers used spoken words and music to tell stories, usually over the beat of drums. Hip-hop stared in New York City in the 1970s but has become (75) all over the world recently. Artists from different backgrounds rap about everything from cars and designer clothes to social issues.
Here are two (76) . The Czech Republic
Europe is home to 10-12 million Roma----a group of people often called \some places, they are also treated less (77) than others. In the Czech Republic, Roma teens meet for a hip-hop class called \
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group Godessa, from South Africa. In the lesson, the teens learn to write rap music and use it to teach others about Rome culture. Williams believes that these teens can use music to change their lives and other people's (78)_______ towards them.
Dakar, Senegal
Assane N'Diaye loves hip-hop music. He grew up in a poor fishing village in Senegal. For a time, he was famous as a DJ in clubs in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal. Today, N'Diaye lives in his village again. He has formed a rap group with other family members. They rap about their lives as village fishermen and about (79) long, hard days and earning almost no money. Many people in their audience can understand these things.
\of our pain and our hard lives...\ having a better life. He wants to make a CD and help his family. The music gives N'Diaye hope.
75. A. fresh B. confident C. popular
D. traditional
76. A. lessons B. problems C. levels D. examples 77. A. fairly B. simply C. sadly 78. A. rights
D. deeply
B. plans C. attitudes D. sights
79. A. singing B. working C. sleeping D. walking 80. A. hears of B. gets tired of C. dreams of D. runs out of
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B. Choose the best words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文) (12分)
Perhaps you have heard of Peter Dinklage from the roles he has played in popular TV series such as Game of Thrones (《权利的游戏》). But few know of the man behind the character and his story. His life (75)__________that a little body can have huge energy.
The famous actor, who earned three Emmy awards and a Golden Globe award, is just 135 cm tall. His father, mother and brother look like (76)__________ people.
But Dinklage has been different from the others since his childhood. The boy was born with a common form of
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dwarfism (侏儒症). As a result, Peter’s legs and arms stopped growing, while his head continued becoming bigger. There’s no doubt that Dinklage’s look was a source of trouble at first. The boy was (77)__________ and bullied (欺负) by other kids. He felt lonely but he didn’t look down upon himself. When he was in the sixth grade, he played his first role in a school play. He was pleased by the audience’s (78)__________ to the show, so he decided to become an actor in the future.
After he graduated from high school, Dinklage entered Bennington College, where he studied performing arts. He (79) __________met several special teachers and friends who managed to help him turn his unusual look into advantage there, which made him unique (独特的). Since then, he has acted in lots of famous films and TV series. Dinklage has been looked as a role model for people with dwarfism. When Dinklage was asked in 2012 whether, he saw himself as a spokesman (代言人)for the (80)__________ of little people, he said, “Everyone’s different. Every person’s size has a different life, a different history, and different ways of dealing with it. My size doesn’t define (下定义)me. It’s just part of who I am.”
75. A notices B discovers C reports D proves 76. A unusual B ordinary C rich D stupid 77. A laughed at B showed off C picked out D looked after 78. A duty B response C excuse D stress 79. A luckily B seriously C quietly D rarely 80. A disadvantages B hobbies C rights D challenges
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