B
What is national is universal.
民族的就是世界的
Peng Jingxuan, a 26-year-old Chinese girl, is now studying in a music university in Paris. While learning abroad, she is also working at spreading traditional Chinese culture to the world. She can often be found on French streets, wearing a silk Han Dynasty-style dress and playing the guzheng to passers-by.
Born in 1995, Peng began to learn the guzheng when she was seven years old. After arriving in France in late 2017, she saw many people do street performances, but few of them knew about Chinese music. So she decided to play the guzheng on the streets.
Peng made her first performance in from of a theater in October, 2018. “I was very nervous at that time, but a lot of people said they enjoyed my performance,” Peng said. Then she started to perform during weekends and holidays. After being asked plenty of times by local people about the guzheng, Peng now carries a book that explains the instrument to foreigners. Later, she posted her first video of playing the guzheng online and it spread quickly. From then on, Peng has posted many videos of her street performances. The videos have got many likes and made her a very popular guzheng artist. She has millions of fans on the Internet now.
More and more people show great interest in the guzheng after watching Peng’s performances. “People come to me and praise me for the beauty of the instrument and the music. Every time they ask me which country the guzheng comes from, I am very happy to tell them it’s from China.” Peng feels she has more responsibility to spread traditional culture. “What is national is universal. I hope to play a bigger role in making Chinese music known by the world.” said Peng.
56. Peng started to learn the guzheng ________.
A. in 1995
B. in 2002
C. in 2017
D. in 2018
57. Why did Peng decide to play the guzheng on the streets in Paris?
A. Because she needed to make money for her education.
B. Because she wanted to become famous.
C. Because she found few people there knew about Chinese music.
D. Because she wanted to make videos to post online.
58. What’s the come order of the following events?
①put her first video online
②got many fans
③went to Paris
④made her first performance
A. ③④①②
B. ①②③④
C. ③①④②
D. ①④②③
59. What is the book that Peng carries about?
A. Han Dynasty-style dresses.
B. Street performances.
C. The guzheng.
D. French instruments.
60. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Advising people to visit Pang.
B. Telling the story of a popular guzheng artist.
C. Asking people to learn the guzheng.
D. Encouraging readers to do street performances.
56. B。文中明确提到 Peng 出生于 1995 年，她 7 岁开始学习古筝，1995 年+7 年=2002 年，所以她是在 2002 年开始学习古筝的。
57. C。文章中提到“After arriving in France in late 2017, she saw many people do street performances, but few of them knew about Chinese music. So she decided to play the guzheng on the streets.”，意思是她到法国后发现那里很少有人了解中国音乐，所以她决定在街头弹古筝，以此来传播中国音乐，C 选项正确。A 选项文中未提及她弹古筝是为了赚钱；B 选项她的初衷不是为了出名；D 选项她不是一开始就为了拍视频上传网络才去街头弹古筝的。
58. A。首先她在 2017 年底去了巴黎（③），然后在 2018 年 10 月进行了第一次表演（④），之后她在网上发布了第一个视频（①），最后因为这些视频她拥有了很多粉丝（②），所以顺序是③④①②，A 选项正确。
59. C。文中提到“After being asked plenty of times by local people about the guzheng, Peng now carries a book that explains the instrument to foreigners.”，可以知道她带的书是关于古筝的解释说明，C 选项正确。A 选项不是关于汉服的；B 选项不是关于街头表演的；D 选项不是关于法国乐器的。
60. B。文章主要围绕 Peng Jingxuan 这位中国女孩在巴黎学习期间，通过在街头弹古筝传播中国传统文化，并且成为了受欢迎的古筝艺术家的故事展开，B 选项正确。A 选项文章重点不是建议人们去拜访 Peng；C 选项不是呼吁人们学古筝；D 选项也不是鼓励读者去街头表演，而是主要讲述 Peng 的经历。
