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四、选词填空。(每小题 1 分，共 10 分)
从方框中选择适当的单词，并用其正确形式填空。每个单词只能用一次。
| hard | against | however | practice | great | who | including | before | begin | talent |
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Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the 36. greatest pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life he wrote almost 300 songs and an opera.
Xian was born in Macau, China in 1905. Because his father died 37. before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with his mother. He 38. began learning to play the violin when he was 13 years old. At first, his violin was so cheap and badly made that he could not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop 39. practicing and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students 40. who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he left, Xian became the school’s best student and won several prizes for his 41. talent.
In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight 42. against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan’an to teach music at a college. There were no pianos in Yan’an at that time, but Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, 43. including the *Yellow River Cantata*, his most famous work.
In May 1940, Xian was sent to a foreign country by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. Life was very 44. hard then. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness on October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian’s music, 45. however, lives on in the people’s heart.

答案： 36. greatest 37. before 38. began 39. practicing 40. who 41. talent 42. against 43. including 44. hard 45. however