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For Chinese dancerchoreographer(编舞者) Chen Ailian, who is 80, age is just a number.
Legendary Chinese dancerchoreographer Chen Ailian is showing no signs of slowing down even as she approaches 80. Over September 14～16, she did three nights of performances to celebrate her career spanning(职业生涯跨越) 65 years. She played the role of Lin Daiyu, a teenage heroine in the dance drama A Dream of Red Mansions, which is based on a novel of the same title written by Cao Xueqin during the Qing Dynasty(1636～1911)．
Chen, who was born in Shanghai and grew up in an orphanage(孤儿院), started to study traditional Chinese dance in Beijing in 1952.
The same year, she watched a performance by the late Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova in Beijing.
After the Beijing Dance Academy was founded in 1954, Chen was transferred to study there. Chen is among the first dancers trained after the founding of the People’s Republic of China and one of the most influential dance masters in the world. Since 1957, she has starred in the ballets Fish Beauty, WhiteHaired Girl and Farewell My Concubine. A Dream of Red Mansions is her favorite and the ballet was first put on in 1981, combining traditional Chinese dance with Western ballet and modern dance. The Chinese classic has been staged more than 600 times in a span of 36 years.
In addition, Chen is still an outstanding dance educator. In 1989, she founded her art group Ailian Troupe. And in 1995, she founded the Ailian Dance School.
语篇导读 本文主要讲述了中国著名舞蹈家、舞蹈教育家、舞蹈编导陈爱莲的成长经历及其在舞蹈方面的成就。
1．What can we infer from the second paragraph?
A．Chen doesn’t care about her age.
B．Chen is full of energy though she is near 80.
C．Chen likes a teenage heroine in the dance drama.
D．Chen performed for her audience for three nights.
解析 B 推理判断题。根据第二段第一句可推知，尽管陈爱莲接近80岁，但她依然充满活力，故选B项。
2．What can we know from the third paragraph?
A．Chen was an orphan.
B．Chen’s family was poor.
C．Chen was brought up by her grandma.
D．Chen liked traditional Chinese dance.
解析 A 推理判断题。根据第三段中的Chen, who was born in Shanghai and grew up in an orphanage(孤儿院)可推知，陈爱莲是个孤儿，故选A项。
3．Why do we regard Chen as an outstanding dance educator?
A．Because she has helped a lot of students.
B．Because she has a gift in the dance education.
C．Because she has donated a lot of money to education.
D．Because she founded Ailian Troupe and Ailian Dance School.
解析 D 细节理解题。根据最后一段第二、三句可知，陈爱莲被评为出色的舞蹈教育家是因为她创办了爱莲剧团和爱莲舞蹈学校，故选D项。
