1 . For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, _______across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, _______at school for practice hours _______ anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to_______music, as he hated getting to school extra early.
_______, one day, in the music class that was _______of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly (随意地)on the piano and found it _________to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually _______doing it. He tried to hide his _______pleasure from the music teacher, who had ________over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, ________the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good________and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there ________him. There he decided to give the cello(大提琴) a ________. When he began practicing, he took it very ________. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was ________to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.
This ________, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, ________his heavy instrument case across the campus to the ________looks of the non-musicians he had left________.
1. A.travelling | B.marching | C.pacing | D.struggling |
2. A.rising up | B.coming up | C.driving up | D.turning up |
3. A.before | B.after | C.until | D.since |
4. A.betray | B.accept | C.avoid | D.appreciate |
5. A.Therefore | B.However | C.Thus | D.Moreover |
6. A.part | B.nature | C.basis | D.spirit |
7. A.complicated | B.safe | C.confusing | D.easy |
8. A.missed | B.disliked | C.enjoyed | D.denied |
9. A.transparent | B.obvious | C.false | D.similar |
10. A.run | B.jogged | C.jumped | D.wandered |
11. A.because | B.but | C.though | D.so |
12. A.ear | B.taste | C.heart | D.voice |
13. A.occurred to | B.took to | C.appealed to | D.held to |
14. A.change | B.chance | C.mission | D.function |
15. A.seriously | B.proudly | C.casually | D.naturally |
16. A.committed | B.used | C.limited | D.admitted |
17. A.proved | B.showed | C.stressed | D.meant |
18. A.pushing | B.dragging | C.lifting | D.rushing |
19. A.admiring | B.pitying | C.annoying | D.teasing |
20. A.over | B.aside | C.behind | D.out |