1 . When I was a boy, I played the piano six hours a day. I love the instrument. My mother________ me to read notes, and my father showed me how to control the ______. At first I played on clunky (沉闷的) Chinese keyboards ______, but the best we could afford. Later my parents bought me a Swedish piano, but I broke half the keys on it playing Tchaikovsky.
To be a serious ______, I would have to move to Beijing where millions of pianists in China were competing for fame. To remove to Beijing with me, my father ______ a great sacrifice. He quit his concertmaster’s (首席小提琴手) job and my mother still stayed in Shenyang to keep working to ______ us. Before we ______ Beijing, they both warned me, “Being a pianist is hard. Can you live without your mother?” I said, “I want my ______!” But I knew I needed to be in Beijing.
Suddenly my father and I were newcomers—outsiders. The only apartment we could afford was in an unheated building, with five families ______ one bathroom. My father became an house-wife mostly.
I was miserable, but not from the poverty or ______. My new teacher in Beijing didn’t like me. “You have no _____, ” she often told me. “You will never be a pianist.” And one day, she ____ me.
I was just nine years old then and I didn’t want to be a pianist anymore, I wanted to go home to my mother. For the next two weeks I didn’t touch the piano. ______, my father didn’t push. He just ______. That day I told my father what he waited to hear—that I wanted to study with a new teacher. ______ that time on, everything turned around.
1. A.allowed | B.asked | C.taught | D.forced |
2. A.sounds | B.voices | C.strings | D.keys |
3. A.safe | B.cheap | C.fine | D.convenient |
4. A.scientist | B.genius | C.musician ![](https://img.xkw.com/dksih/QBM/2021/1/22/2641702526640128/2641858575040512/STEM/e7515a28eb674904afd89cdcb242c05b.png?resizew=27) | D.doctor |
5. A.created | B.produced | C.got | D.made |
6. A.support | B.understand | C.provide | D.supply |
7. A.left for | B.turned to | C.got in | D.stayed in |
8. A.mother | B.father | C.hometown | D.friends |
9. A.cleaning | B.living | C.keeping | D.sharing |
10. A.pleasure | B.pressure | C.success | D.leisure |
11. A.talent | B.patience | C.money | D.confidence |
12. A.prevented | B.stopped | C.fired | D.punished |
13. A.Unfortunately | B.Hopefully | C.Sadly | D.Wisely |
14. A.cried | B.waited | C.smiled | D.shouted |
15. A.Until | B.From | C.Since | D.After |