题目内容：

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Music can make us feel happy or peaceful, or move us to tears. As an orchestra conductor(指挥), Amy Anderson allows people to experience many________that music can give.

Anderson fell in love with________as a child. She began playing the piano at seven. She bought many videos________by the world’s great orchestras and conductors and________listened to them for hours. During a concert, the audiences see the________of a conductor and the arm movements he or she uses. What audiences do not see is all the work the conductor has done before the________. However, a few months before a concert, Anderson studies the music by________it on the piano. She listens to recording, reads about the musician’s life, and reviews some________events that would have influenced the musician. Her goal is to present the music as the musician________.

While conducting, Anderson uses her whole body to________how the music should sound and feel. Her________are strong when the music is________and gentle when the music is peaceful. As she conducts, Anderson listens out for the________with the balance of different kinds of instruments or voices.

To________young musicians to understand how to play the music, Anderson tells them to imagine a________and relaxing walk or a ship being tossed(颠簸) by waves. “It is music’s ability to________people that I like most,” says Anderson. She has seen audiences at her concerts clap their hands together. ________, listeners are moved to tears by the music. After one concert in Serbia, the audiences________around the orchestra’s buses and showed their________for the musicians. Anderson is happy to be a conductor, because music can________people’s spirits and bring joy into ordinary days.

 

1.A. feelings          B. characters        C. thoughts       D. changes

2.A. painting          B. art               C. music          D. dance

3.A. kept              B. recorded          C. praised        D. directed

4.A. never             B. gradually         C. finally        D. always

5.A. face              B. head              C. look           D. back

6.A. schedule          B. performance       C. task           D. meeting

7.A. putting           B. beating           C. playing        D. repeating

8.A. important         B. strange           C. meaningless    D. unpleasant

9.A. designed          B. expected          C. impressed      D. ordered

10.A. prove            B. recognize         C. learn          D. express

11.A. ideas            B. accents           C. movements      D. voices

12.A. energetic        B. magical           C. wonderful      D. lively

13.A. signals          B. problems          C. sounds         D. challenges

14.A. encourage        B. force             C. remind         D. help

15.A. short            B. quick             C. calm           D. heavy

16.A. influence        B. tell              C. watch          D. meet

17.A. Firstly          B. Frequently        C. Fortunately    D. Lately

18.A. ran              B. drove             C. walked         D. gathered

19.A. kindness         B. care              C. appreciation   D. understanding

20.A. lift             B. follow            C. show           D. bring