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课时微训练14 (时间：45分钟　满分：55分) Ⅰ.完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分) (2014·福建卷) From my second grade on，there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏会)．A recital __1__ I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.Each year I __2__ ask my father if I could skip the recital“just this once”．And each year hed shake his head，muttering(嘀咕)__3__ about building self-confidence and working towards a __4__. So it was with really great __5__ that I stood in church one recent Sunday，video camera in hand，and __6__ my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt __7__ rising to play the piano in his very first recital. My father had longed to play music since childhood，but his family was poor and couldnt __8__ lessons.He could have gone on regretting it，__9__ too many of us do.But though he was rooted in his past，he wasnt __10__ there.When he retired three years ago，he __11__ his church music director to take him as a student. For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard，he __12__ stared down at his fingers.Has he forgotten the __13__？I worried，remembering those split seconds __14__ ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __15__.But then came the beautiful melody (旋律)，from the __16__ fingers that once baited(装饵于)my fishing lines.And I __17__ he had been doing what music teachers always stress: __18__ the music and pretend the others arent there. “Im __19__ of him for starting something new at his age，”I said to my son Jeff. “Yeah，and doing it so __20__，”Jeff added. With his first recital，my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago. [语篇解读]　一年一度的钢琴独奏会让作者胆战心惊，却又无可奈何。想不到，年近古稀的父亲生平第一次表演竟然如此成功！ 1．A.reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved 解析：上文提到作者对每年一次的钢琴独奏会感到非常恐惧，由此可知这意味着作者不得不练习一支枯燥的曲子并且在陌生人面前表演。mean合语境。 答案：C 2．A.would B．could C．might D．should 解析：根据本段第一句中的内容可知，作者每年都会问自己的父亲能否不参加钢琴独奏会，仅此一次，下不为例。would表意愿，合语境。 答案：A 3．A.nothing B．everything C．anything D．something