3 . My father, a soldier, was ordered to move again. It came as a _____________ because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before.
It was the fourth time we’d got to move to a ___________ place in just two years, which was truly our “home” in Hawaii that we’d only _________________ through my father’s music with ukulele (尤克里里)._________ was the thing that connected my father with Hawaii, a reminder of his home and_______.
Everything was _________________ this time. We were just arriving, but he was already ___________ to leave again without us. Our father, the person who could make us _________ the “new” family, was gone. Suddenly, we were surrounded by cousins who ___________ knowing each other, joining in a cultural __________________ of which we only knew the surface. We were __________ in the family.
One day, I ________________ my father’s ukulele that I had watched him play was ________________ in the corner. When I tried to play it, though unskillfully, I felt closer to him and our Hawaiian roots. Then I picked up an old song book, and ____________ myself to play. I would play and sing, __________ my father had been here. Finally my father______________with a newly-bought ukulele, and we had a mini concert. He was________ that I had learned so much.
What I really ______________ was that music has the ________________ to do truly extraordinary things________ us with our culture and each other, our past and our present.
1. A.surprise | B.test | C.lesson | D.story |
2. A.dangerous | B.cold | C.dark | D.new |
3. A.suffered from | B.heard about | C.heard from | D.looked after |
4. A.Music | B.Food | C.Money | D.Nature |
5. A.language | B.culture | C.economy | D.school |
6. A.good | B.wrong | C.different | D.sad |
7. A.excited | B.prepared | C.eager | D.pleased |
8. A.put in | B.break in | C.take in | D.fit in |
9. A.grew up | B.got up | C.set up | D.looked up |
10. A.relic | B.exchange | C.competition | D.tradition |
11. A.customers | B.teachers | C.strangers | D.doctors |
12. A.found | B.bought | C.shared | D.broke |
13. A.picked | B.served | C.left | D.limited |
14. A.allowed | B.advised | C.taught | D.told |
15. A.even if | B.as if | C.so that | D.now that |
16. A.responded | B.succeeded | C.returned | D.recovered |
17. A.moved | B.confident | C.tired | D.angry |
18. A.missed | B.showed | C.hated | D.learned |
19. A.duty | B.space | C.honor | D.power |
20. A.showing | B.connecting | C.punishing | D.praising |