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As a child, I started learning to play the piano, my favorite musical 41 ,but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school 42 I could concentrate more on my studies.Its one of my biggest 43 to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 44 . However, I didnt keep my promise because I was 45 with my study. 46 I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been 47 that I never returned. I havent taken lessons since then but to be honest, I 48 to. Sitting at the piano, I couldnt help recalling many 49 - times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher 50 me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so 51 that I could hardly say anything. But her 52 helped ease my shame. These memories, 53 , good or bad, never caused my 54 for playing the piano again.This thought then led me to think that 55 is like music, and that we all try to play different 56 in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch(音高) is 57 when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own 58 style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is 59 that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesnt 60 that Ive stopped making music.41. A. instrument B. performance C. room D. stage42.A. in that B. so that C. now that D. except that43.A. successes B. regrets C. decisionsD. hobbies44.A. play B. graduate C. leave D. return45.A. occupied B. angry C. satisfiedD. patient46.A. Actually B. Constantly C. Suddenly D. Gradually47.A. astonished B. glad C. disappointedD. amazed48.A. liked B. needed C. wanted D. decided49.A. dreams B. expressions C. words D. memories50.A. instructed B. Hurt C. Punished D. respected51.A. frightened B. moved C. embarrassedD. excited52.A. happiness B. satisfactionC. Comfort D. sigh53.A. instead B. Meanwhile C. Therefore D. however54.A. hope B. Courage C. feeling D. effort55.A. life B. Learning C. attitude D. enjoyment56.A. cards B. Sports C. roles D. games57.A. Hard B. wonderful C. surprising D. complex58.A. unique B. boring C. Common D. similar59A. necessary B. Strange C. possible D. important60A. matter B. mean C. report D. AppearAirport ExpressWith the Airport Express, you are never far from town. There is a train every 10 minutes, ready to rush you between the airport and Hong Kong Station in the heart of the shopping and commercial district in about 24 minutes. Or travel to the AsiaWorldExpo in just 1 minute from the airport.Airport Express service hoursMon.Fri. : 5：50 am to 1：15 amSat.Sun. : 5 am to 2 amTicketsThere are three types of tickets for travelling to and from the airport: Single Journey Ticket, Round Trip Ticket and Same Day Return Ticket. Single Journey Ticket and Same Day Return Ticket are valid(有效的) on the day of issue. Round Trip Ticket is valid for 30 days from the day of issue. You can also use the Octopus Card for the Airport Express. (The Octopus Card is an electronic storedvalue ticket and it can be used on most public transport. The fare will be deducted from the storedvalue card each time, so you do not have to carry heavy coins. The card is valid for three years after value has been added.)Travel tipsChildren under 3 travel for free.Passengers travelling on the Airport Express are now able to write emails and do online searches with WiFi service.For more information about the Airport Express, please visit www.hongkongairport. com or call 0085221818888.6What is good about the Octopus Card?AIt saves money for its users.BIt is sold in every store.CIts validity is unlimited.DIt avoids its users carrying coins.7What can we know about the Airport Express?AHong Kong Station is just 1 minute distance from the airport.BSingle Journey Ticket is acceptable for 30 days.CChildren are free of charge for tickets.DPassengers can surf the Internet in the Airport Express.8What is the main purpose of the passage?ATo provide suggestions about the Airport Express.BTo promote the Octopus Card.CTo inform readers of the Airport Express.DTo introduce the Airport Express schedule The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant wokeup in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didnt stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someonesuggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess. Parbati Baruas father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephantbefore she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up-how to catch wildelephants. Parbati hasnt always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent toboarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back toher old fife. Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for daysafter the chase, she says. But Parbati doesnt catch elephants just for fun. My work, she says, is to rescue man from the elephants,and to keep the elephants safe from man. And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill. The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. Eventually they grow to love their tamers and neverforget them. They are also more loyal than humans, she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and saton the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!65. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to .A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safeC. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame66. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, .A. she spent her time hunting with her fatherB. she learned how to sing love songsC. she had already been called an elephant princessD. she was taught how to hunt tigers67. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because .A. they are caught and sent for heavy workB. illegal hunters capture them and kill themC. they are attacked and their land gets limitedD. dogs often bark at them and chase them68. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India .A. people easily fall victim to elephants attacks B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worseC. elephant tamers are in short supplyD. dogs are as powerful as elephantsThe practice of magic includes special words, actions, and objects. Most magic involves a person calleda magician, who claims to have supernatural powers.Magic wordsTo work most magic, the magician sings or speaks special words in a certain order. Thesewords are called incantations or spells. Some spells form prayers to demons (魔鬼), spirits, or othersupernatural forces. Many societies believe the magic will not work unless the magician recites the spellsperfectly. Other magic words have no meaning, though they supposedly possess power when spoken by amagician. Magic actions accompany the words spoken in performing much magic. Many of these movements actout the desired effect of the magic. For example, a magician trying to make rain fall may sprinkle (洒) water on the ground. The magicians combined words and actions form a ceremony. Magic objectsMagic objects include certain plants, stones, and other things with supposed supernatural powers. Anysuch object may be called a fetish (物神). But this term often refers to an object-for example, a carving ora dried snake-honored by a tribe for its magic powers. Many tribes believe fetishes have magic power becausespirits live in these objects. Many people carry magic objects called amulets (护身符) to protect themselves from harm. Many amuletsare stones or rings engraved (雕刻) with magic symbols.The magicianIn some societies, nearly everyone knows how to work some magic. In other societies,only experts practice magic. Magicians may be called medicine men, medicine women, shamans, sorcorers,or witch doctors. In many societies, magicians must inherit their powers. In others, any person may becomea magician by studying the