Test 2

Passage 1

Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can be used only once.（将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）（共8分）

Ken hopped off the bus. He was carrying his math homework in one hand and the saxophone（萨克斯管）that his mother had asked him to bring home in the other.He wasn't sure what he 1 more, the homework or his mother's special “assignment” .

Ken loved 2 the saxophone in the school band. The songs came so 3 to him that he didn't have to practise outside of the school studio. But now his mother wanted him to play some old jazz songs from the 1940s, and he wasn't interested 4. The songs sounded nothing like the popular songs that he listened to on the radio.

Marcus climbed off the bus, with his “secret” notebook. He was Ken's elder brother and a good student. He always put a lot of efforts into his work and always 5 his assignment on time, sometimes even early.

His notebook held all of the song lyrics（歌词）and 6 that he had written.Very few people had ever seen them, and no one had heard them, except for Marcus himself. Unlike his brother, he liked music that was 7 and meaningful. He was too shy to sing, but he could hear how the songs would sound 8. He has taken piano lessons since first grade, so he knew how to write out the music notes, too.