2016杭州市五校联盟一诊英语试题及答案(8)

Pasha set her apple down on the side table and slid beside me on the piano bench.

“What piece do you like best？”she asked.

“What do you mean？” I asked. “They’re all the same to me. I don’t know.

“You mean you don’t have a favorite？”

“No， not really.”

Pasha looked at me， rather puzzled， then opened my sheet music to the beginning page and asked me to play. I arranged my fingers on the keys and studied the notes on the page for a moment. Then I frowned and concentrated to make the notes on the page match the finger movements. I have to admit I was a rather mechanical pianist.

After about a page or two， Pasha gently put her hand on top of mine as if to calm my fingers. There was a long pause. “What are you hearing in the music？” I looked at her rather strangely and admitted I didn’t know what she meant.

“Like a story. What story is being playing out within the music？”

“I guess I’ve never thought about it before. I don’t know.”

“Here， let me try and you listen，” Pasha advised.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath， letting her fingers dance lightly over the keys. Then， she began to play. “See， it begins here beside some kind of river. Hear the water flowing beside you？”

Her fingers rose and fell gently on the keys.“Now the princess appears and she’s picking flowers from the water’s edge.”A carefree， happy piece of music filled the air in time to Pasha’s dancing fingers. “Oh， but she slips！”The music changed. “And our princess is being carried off by the fast-flowing stream. Quickly， the princess’s horse sees her plight （困境），” Pasha continued， and races to the river’s edge where he swims out to let her catch hold of him. They make it to the bank and she hugs her faithful horse and swears she will never again wear princess skirts that weigh her down. She will only wear jeans and T-shirt from now on.” Pasha finished with a big smile and then looked at me.

“Aren’t you the girl who tells the stories？” she asked.

“I guess. I do tell a lot of stories.”

“Oh， yes！ All the kids talk about them. I’ve heard about you. Well， all you have to do is learn to hear the stories in the music. That’s all there is to it.”

“I’ve never thought it that way.”

“Let’s try another one， shall we？”Pasha smiled and together we played that afternoon， finding the stories in the music and learning that sometimes it takes a friend to pull you out of the river onto dry land again.

55．The underlined word “dejectedly” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______

A. nervously B. desperately C. impatiently D. unhappily