《2025年5年中考3年模拟英语广东专版》

Passage 5 (2024广州一模,B)
For 16 - year - old Ma Yifei, the violin performance of the Beijing 2022 Olympics theme song, Snowflake, was her best present for Paralympians (残奥会运动员) all over the world. Though snowflakes were related to winter, she let others feel warmth, hope and light through her performance.
Ma went blind at the age of two because of an illness. She fell in love with music when she was young. She began to learn to play the piano at five and the violin at nine, experiencing the “colorful” music through sound and emotion.
Ma’s mother Ha Chunyan, was a music teacher in a primary school and helped her memorize the music score (乐谱) before she played the piano. Ma could not see the keys and always played the wrong notes. It took her thousands of tries to play a piece correctly.
Learning the violin was more challenging. Ma needed to feel the teacher’s hands, arms and back to learn the movements, and listen to the strings (弦) over and over again to feel the muscles (肌肉) herself.
“After three years of learning, she still could not make any sound except terrible noises,” said Ha, who advised her daughter to give up the violin. But Ma said, “As I’ve been practising so long, it’s hard to give up. I believe I will play better if I persist in practising.”
In 2018, Ma got a chance to follow two famous musicians Sheng Yuan and Cao Yuhan from the Central Conservatory of Music and study music in Beijing. She left her home in Ningxia to follow her musical dream, though she knew there would be more challenges ahead.
Ma expressed her excitement about performing at the big event. “All my hard work has paid off. I’m proud of standing on the stage today.”
1. How does the writer describe Ma’s difficulties in learning the violin?
A. By questioning.
B. By listing numbers.
C. By offering advice.
D. By giving examples.
2. Which is the correct order according to the passage?
a. Ma got a chance to study music in Beijing.
b. Ma performed the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games theme song.
c. Ma began to learn to play the piano.
d. Ma went blind because of an illness.
A. c - b - d - a
B. a - d - c - b
C. d - c - a - b
D. b - d - c - a
3. What does the underlined phrase “persist in” probably mean in paragraph 5?
A. Keep on.
B. End up.
C. Take part in.
D. Look forward to.
4. What does Ma’s story tell us?
A. Handsome is as handsome does.
B. There is no place like home.
C. Practice makes perfect.
D. A good friend is like a mirror.

答案： 语篇解读　本文是一篇人物故事。马奕菲虽然因病失明，但是她克服各种困难，坚持练习小提琴，最终努力得到回报，并在2022年北京残奥会上给人们带来了一场精彩的演出。
1.D　写作手法题。根据第四段“Learning the violin was more challenging... over and over again to feel the muscles herself.”可知，文章通过举例子，讲述了马奕菲学小提琴时所遇到的困难，故选D。
2.C　事件排序题。根据第二段“Ma went blind at the age of two because of an illness. She fell in love with music when she was young. She began to learn to play the piano at five and the violin at nine”，第六段“In 2018, Ma got a chance to follow two famous musicians Sheng Yuan and Cao Yuhan from the Central Conservatory of Music and study music in Beijing.”和第一段“For 16 - year - old Ma Yifei, the violin performance of the Beijing 2022 Olympics theme song, Snowflake, was her best present for Paralympians all over the world.”可知，正确的顺序是马奕菲在两岁时因为疾病而失明，五岁时她开始学钢琴，2018年她得到一个去北京学习音乐的机会，2022年她在北京残奥会上演奏主题曲，故选C。
3.A　词义猜测题。根据“As I’ve been practising so long, it’s hard to give up. I believe I will play better if I persist in practising.”可知，马奕菲觉得坚持练习了这么久，很难再将其放弃，她坚信如果坚持练习，她会将小提琴拉得很好。因此画线短语与keep on意思接近，意为“坚持”，故选A。
4.C　主旨大意题。根据文中的“As I’ve been practising so long, it’s hard to give up. I believe I will play better if I persist in practising.”以及最后一段中的“All my hard work has paid off. I’m proud of standing on the stage today.”可知，马奕菲经历各种困难，但是依然坚持不放弃，通过不断练习，最终她的付出得到了回报，因此文章是在告诉我们熟能生巧的道理，故选C。