判断题
Enya was born in 1961, 17 May, and spent her childhood in Gweedore. There are nine brothers and sisters in the family, four other girls and four boys. All the family have won many competitions and are famous in national traditional music circles.
Whilst at school, Enya studied the piano and classical music. Three of her brothers and sisters formed, together with their uncles, a folk music group (at first with a certain American feel and then more purely Irish, though influenced by jazz and by others such as Pentangle). The group was named Clannad, a contraction of "the family from Gweedore" in Irish. In 1980, at the suggestion of their manager, Fachtna O"Kelly, Enya became a member of the group. She performed with Clannad on many occasions, until, in February 1982, on completing a European tour, she left the group, no one really knowing why.
It was also Fachtna O"Kelly who suggested to Enya after she left Clannad, that she devoted herself to composing for films. And so, in 1984, she approached her first important task. Roma Ryan had sent a cassette of Enya to film producer David Puttnam. Puttnam asked her to compose dreamy and romantic music with a sixties feel for the feature film The Frog Prince.
Having a studio at her disposal, Enya worked almost always at home with the Roland Juno 60 synthesizer or the Kurzweil sampler, and then added piano and voice. Nicky Ryan recorded everything and helped to put the compositions into their final form.
Enya"s first record subsequently climbed to number one in the Irish charts, which started the commercial rise of Enya. She collaborated with the singer Sinéad O"Connor reciting a short text on "Never Get Old" from her album The Lion And The Cobra.
She signed with an important multinational, and had a resounding success with her second album Watermark, which has passed 10 million sales worldwide, and has gone platinum in 14 different countries, helped by the single "Orinoco Flow", a No 1 hit in Britain. Then she repeated her world success with Shepherd Moons, which spent an amazing 199 weeks on the Billboard charts in the USA and has sold over 11 million copies.
Decide the following statements are true (T) or (F) according to the passage.
判断题
All the family are well known in national traditional music circles.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第一段最后一句指出“Au the family have won many competitions and are famous in national traditional music circles.”本题说“在各种竞赛中，恩雅的家人都能获胜，因而这个家庭在传统音乐圈中享有盛名”。符合文意。所以该说法正确。
判断题
Three of Enya"s brothers and sisters with their uncles formed a purely American folk music group at first.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第二段第二句话指出“Three of her brothers and sisters formed, together with their uncles, a folk music group (at first with a certain American feel and then more purely Irish. though influenced by jazz and by others such as Pentangle).”说明乐队一开始的音乐中有着美国音乐的味道。本题说他们是纯粹的是美国民间音乐。显然与文中事实不符。所以该说法错误。
判断题
It was Fachtna O"Kelly who suggested Enya join Clannad and then quit it.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第四段第一句话指出“It was also Fachtna O"Kelly who suggested to Enya after she left Clannad, that she devote herself to composing for films.”说明是Fachtna O"Kelly建议恩雅投入到电影配乐中去的。本题说“Fachtna O"Kelly建议恩雅加入Clannad而后又放弃”，与文中事实不完全相符。所以该说法错误。
判断题
Enya"s second album Watermark has been translated into different versions in 14 counties.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章最后一段提到“her second album Watermark, which has passed 10 million sales worldwide, and has gone platinum in 14 different countries,”即在14个不同的国家达到白金销量，本题说唱片被翻译成14个不同的版本，显然是错误的。因而该说法错误。
判断题
The single "Orinoco Flow" from Watermark spent an amazing 199 weeks on the Billboard charts.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章最后一段最后一句指出“Then she repeated her world success with Shepherd Moons, which spent an amazing 199 weeks on the Billboard charts in the USA”。本题说连续199周在排行榜很出名的单曲是Orinoco Flow，显然与原文不符。所以该说法错误。