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The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren't straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”          Marc's 34-year-old mother played Beethoven's CDs to him when she was pregnant (怀孕的). Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he'd been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship (奖学金).         At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings - sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn't.”

根据短文内容，选择最佳选项。

1. The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from     .

A. China B. France. C. Canada D. the United States

2. Marc played the piano at the age of     for the first time.

A. two         B. five         C. six           D. nine

3. According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “  ” in Chinese.

A. 使……理解 B. 使……担心 C. 使……惊奇 D. 使……难过

4. At present Marc practices playing the piano   .

A. once a month B. eight hours a day C. in his free time             D. only on weekends

5. What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that   .

A. he likes challenges B. he doesn't like challenges C. he is afraid of challenges D. he wants to give up music

题型：阅读理解  难度：中档

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