五、阅读理解。〔人与社会——历史、社会与文化(传统文化)〕
A British man has learned the skills needed to *perform* Beijing opera. In this way he made the audience enjoy his lively performance of the Monkey King.
Ghaffar Pourazar became interested in Chinese culture when he was a child. In 1993, he happened to watch Beijing opera in London performed by actors from Jingju Theatre Company of Beijing. Ghaffar said he fell in love with the beautiful voices, colourful costumes, excellent shows and so on. So after one year, he arrived in China and began to learn Beijing opera at a Beijing school.
At the age of 32, he had to learn with teenage students every day, starting from the most basic training of the legs and waist. At that time, he was mostly troubled by the dialogue in Beijing opera. To him, it was the biggest *obstacle*. But he never gave up.
Four years later, he began to learn to perform the Monkey King. He always arrived at the workroom an hour earlier than other performers and also bought books and CDs to understand the character better.
Now Ghaffar is good at speaking the Beijing dialect(方言), and he has attracted many fans of his performance. In the past few years, he has performed in hundreds of shows. He even got a top international prize for performing the Monkey King.
To help more people enjoy Beijing opera, Ghaffar often teaches this traditional art form in schools in the United States, Britain and other countries.
()1. Ghaffar began to learn Beijing opera in Beijing in .
A. 1962
B. 1993
C. 1994
D. 1961
()2. The underlined word “obstacle” in *Paragraph* 3 probably means “”.
A. hope
B. problem
C. topic
D. chance
()3. From the passage, we can know that Ghaffar .
A. thought it was a shame to learn with teenagers
B. didn’t work hard enough at his opera study
C. teaches the Beijing dialect in many countries
D. is successful in performing Beijing opera
()4. The passage is most probably from the part of in a newspaper.
A. sports
B. business
C. culture
D. education

1~4. CBDC