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I had always loved music and dreamed of being a musician, traveling to different countries, meeting
lots of people and doing something I loved to earn my money.__
1__, my parents had a farm and I didn't
want to do that-I wanted to do something __
2__.However, I had always been shy and too nervous to
try playing music in public.
I had been playing the __
3__ since I was ten years old, but t
he idea of playing in front of other
people was very __
4__.
I started one day, when a local youth club advertised a talent show-anybody who could play an
instrument or sing could put his name down to be in concert.I singed myself up.
When the day of the show came, I was so __
5__ that I couldn't eat.It was the first time I had played
in front of other people and I felt __
6__ unsure of myself.I had no idea whether I was __
7__ good and
was worried that no one would like me.
When my turn came, I played my favorite tune and I even started to __
8__! I could not hear what I
sounded like, but to my surprise, I eventually forgot about all the people in the audience and started to
enjoy myself.When the song ended, everyone clapped and some people __
9__!
After the show a man __
10__ up to me to say how much he enjoyed my __
11__.He said that he had
a rock band, and they needed to take on a guitar player.He asked me to come along the next day to
have a try.This successful trial turned my dream into __
12__.In the following days, we __
13__ around a
lot, playing in concerts in lots of places around the world.Sometimes we would enter competitions and
once we went on TV.
We really enjoyed ourselves and life was like a big long holiday.As we became more successful, we
had to work harder and practice more and eventually I became __
14__ of traveling so much.But now,
nearly fifty years later, I look back on those carefree days of my __
15__ as among the best moments of
my life.
( )1. A. Besides ( )2. A. similar ( )3. A. guitar ( )4. A. enjoyable ( )5. A. nervous ( )6. A. exactly ( )7. A. some ( )8. A. dance ( )9. A. shouted ( )10. A. looked ( )11. A. performance ( )12. A. practice ( )13. A. toured ( )14. A. fond ( )15. A. competitions |
B. Thus B. normal B. violin B. attractive B. inspired B. hardly B. any B. act B. jumped B. came B. behavior B. consideration B. ran B. tired B. memory |
C. Therefore C. strange C. piano C. exciting C. disappointed C. extremely C. well C. announce C. praised C. went C. presence C. reality C. worked C. aware C. friendship |
D. Instead D. different D. drum D. frightening D. excited D. highly D. much D. sing D. cheered D. faced D. instrument D. effect D. turned D. proud D. youth |