Passage Five
Billy Joel was born on Long Island, in New York State. He began taking piano lessons at an early age and joined his first rock band when he was fourteen. After playing in a number of Long Island groups, Billy began concentrating on his song-writing. His first album of completely original songs was Cold Spring Harbor. It was released in 1972. Two years later, after the release of the smash-hit albums Piano Man and Street-life Serenade. Billy was named "Best New Male Vocalist" by Cask Box magazine.
51. Billy Joel began taking piano lessons ______.
A. when he joined his first rock band
B. after he was named "Best New Male Vocalist"
C. at fourteen
D. before he was fourteen years old
第1题:
A、appear
B、height
C、capital
D、island
第2题:
Hurry up! The concert __________ for ten minutes.
A、has begun
B、had begun
C、has been on
D、began
第3题:
第4题:
A.five, 600
B.five, 650
C.five, 651
D.four, 651
第5题:
YoucreatedtheORDERStableinyourdatabasebyusingthefollowingcode:
SQL>CREATETABLEORDERS(ORDER_DATETIMESTAMP(0)WITHTIMEZONE);
Then,youinserteddataintheORDERStableandsaveditbyissuingthefollowingstatements:SQL>INSERTINTOORDERSVALUES(’18-AUG-0010:26:44PMAmerica/New_York’);
SQL>INSERTINTOORDERSVALUES(’23-AUG-0212:46:34PMAmerica/New_York’);
SQL>COMMIT;
Next,youissuedthefollowingstatementtochangethetimezoneforthedatabase:
SQL>ALTERDATABASESETTIME_ZONE=’Europe/London’;
Whatwillbetheresultofexecutingtheabovestatement?()
第6题:
单词island“岛”中本来没有字母s,一些学者仿照源于拉丁语的法语借用词isle“小岛”,把不发音的字母s加到island中,使其更像拉丁文。