1 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
When Beethoven was only four, his father decided to make him a musician. Beethoven was made to practice 1 (play) different musical instruments hour after hour. Whenever he did not put his heart into his practice, his father would be strict 2 him.
3 (fortune), the boy loved music very much and learnt so fast that he was able to go around and give 4 (concert) when he was only 11. When he was 17, he received high praise from Mozart, 5 great Austrian composer. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna 6 ( study) under Haydn, another great Austrian composer. Then he 7 (write) a great deal of music, even at his most difficult time. But after one illness, he suddenly found 8 (him) deaf at the age of 31.
However, this didn’t stop Beethoven. During his life, he composed about 30 pieces of music. It is 9 (amaze) that he wrote some of his best pieces after he became deaf, many of 10 are well known and loved all over the world.