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【正文】 harmonica（口琴）, and listened to the radio.Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and the leading singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues runes on the front porches of neighbors’ homes.One of Stevie’s sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie’s talent and took him to audition（試演）for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording pany now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit “Fingertips” in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie’s story is music history.1. This passage could be entitled .B) Stevie Wonder2. Which of the following is NOT true about Stevie’s childhood?A) Stevie used to tell people that a blind person is not necessarily disabled.3. By saying “Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments,” the author means that .D) Stevie started to play real instruments4. The author mentions all the following facts EXCEPT that .C) Berry Gordy helped him to set up his own recording pany5. The “Fingertips” .D) all of the abovePassage twoChildren are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pintsized men and women, wearing grownup clothes and grownup expressions, performing grownup tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.Children today not only exist。 they have taken over, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. it’s always Kids’ Country here. Our civilization is childcentered, childobsessed. A kid’s body is our physical ideal. In Kids’ Country we do not permit middleage. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will e. We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsyturvy（顛倒的）situation has e about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its everexpanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to GO WEST。 the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kid’s Country may be the inevitable result.Kid’s Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kid’s Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and eat kids’ food。 we dream kids’ dreams and make them e true. It was, after all, a boy’s game to go to the moon.If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing pushups（俯臥撐）against eternity.1. The author uses the example of the Renaissance painting to show that .C) children looked and acted like adults at that time2. In the third paragraph, the Old Country is contrasted with America .D) to show two different kinds of economic relations between generations.3. Going to the moon is an example of .A) America’s dreams and creativity4. According to the passage, which of the following is true?D) America is more of Kids’ Country than other countries in the world.5. By saying “condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing pushups against eternity,” the author means that .C) American society is overemphasizing youth and physical appearan
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