Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition---to play the drums in a band. But a(n) _______lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to lots of _______people in a care home. The sound of _______ drums would really annoy them.
Brenda was _______. She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without _______other people, but without success. However, _______ to practice as much as she could, Brenda tried all kinds of ways.
One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that _______cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a _______ astronaut.
So Brenda built a space bubble _______with a machine, which drew out all air. Inside was a set of drums. Once inside, Brenda ________ the machine and played like mad.
It wasn’t long before she had become ________. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards, she started giving concerts out of the bubble. ________Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first ________of playing drums in a band.
When asked how she had achieved all this, she said, “If those old people next door hadn’t ________ so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to find a(n) ________, and none of this would have ever happened.
21. A.obstacle | B.question | C.hand | D.figure |
22. A.poor | B.sick | C.elderly | D.local |
23. A.beating | B.bending | C.spinning | D.sticking |
24. A.delightful | B.wonderful | C.awful | D.respectful |
25. A.bearing | B.bothering | C.pitying | D.praying |
26. A.encouraged | B.determined | C.thrilled | D.scared |
27. A.heat | B.air | C.light | D.sound |
28. A.classical | B.physical | C.musical | D.medical |
29. A.associated | B.attached | C.joined | D.connected |
30. A.held on | B.turned on | C.put on | D.got on |
31. A.famous | B.skillful | C.confident | D.mature |
32. A.Generally | B.Finally | C.Suddenly | D.Fortunately |
33. A.performance | B.effort | C.attempt | D.ambition |
34. A.related | B.owe | C.mattered | D.talked |
35. A.instruction | B.introduction | C.solution | D.evolution |