{{B}}Music to My
Ears{{/B}} As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiulan Zhou, taught me to read notes, and my father, Guoren Lang, concertmaster of a local folk orchestra, showed me how to control the keys. At first I played on Chinese keyboards-cheap, but the best we could afford. Later my parents bought me a Swedish piano, but I broke half the strings on it Playing Tchaikovsky (柴科夫斯基). That’s when my parents and my teacher decided I was too much for such an instrument—and for our hometown. To be a serious musician, I would have to move to Beijing, one of our cultural capitals. I was just eight years old then. My father, who played the erhu, a two-stringed instrument, knew that life wouldn’t be easy. Milli A. His mother. B. His father. C. His uncle. D. His kindergarten teacher. [单项选择]The courageous boy has been the subject of {{U}}massive{{/U}} media coverage.
A. extensive B. continuous C. instant D. quick [填空题]Advertisements
An intelligent person will not allow himself to be influenced
by advertisements. Instead, he will try to get to know about the
(1) ______ regulating them. Secondly, he will try (1) ______
to make sure whether he can believe in advertisements.
Honest advertisements can be extremely useful because they
save a lot of time and (2) ______ by putting sellers in touch (2) ______
with buyers in a quick and simple way.
The dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quickly
to make a large profit before (3) ______ begin. (3) ______
There are also semi-dishonest advertisers who make
(4) ______ for their products which they know perfectly well (4) ______
to be incapable of (5) ______ (5) ______
With no advertising, (6) ______ would be sold, so (6) ______
the cost of each article would be higher. The more you advertise,
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