完形填空。
My first performance in front an audience was coming up soon.
I tried as hard as I could to remain  1  , but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered,
  2  hands.
I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were  3  people. They were not just my mum and
dad, who  4  say, "Good job!" even if I messed up (弄乱) the wrong notes?
As it  5  , I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight was  6  for me. I grasped
my hands tightly together, drying off the sweat.
Slowly I walked to the mud-brown piano in the  7  of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys, which
were waiting impatiently to be played. I swallowed the gofball-sized lump (隆起部分) in my throat and sat
down.  8  , I opened the music book. Next, I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory (乳白色) keys.
As my fingers played across the keys, I was becoming more  9  of my preparation for this moment. But
the memory of my years of training came flooding back. I knew that I had 10 this piece so many times that
I could play it backwards if 11 .
Although at one point I accidentally played two keys instead of the intended one, I continued to move my
 12 automatically (自动地).
My eyes burned holes into the page in front of me.
There was no 13 that I was going to lose my concentration. To keep this 14 to myself, I leaned forward
and focused carefully on the music.
 15 I came to the end of the page, a warning 16 inside my heads: DON'T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN
YOU TURN THE PAGE!
Needless to say, I 17 myself with all my heart and mind. And, proud of my "page-turning" feat (技艺) I
finished the 18 of the piece without making a single mistake.
After the final note died away, a celebration went into action 19 my head. I had finished. I had mastered
the 20 .

(     )1. A. unknown        (     )2. A. shaking        (     )3. A. true           (     )4. A. will           (     )5. A. turned out     (     ) 6. A. looking        (     )7. A. corner          (     )8. A. mine           (     )9. A. For            (     )10. A. room           (     )11. A. an instruction   (     )12. A. put            (     )13. A. working        (     )14. A. on end         (     )15. A  hope           (     )16. A. comfort        (     )17. A. office         (     )18. A. crazily        (     )19. A. neighbors      (     )20. A. followed

B. still       B. moving      B. real        B. can         B. turned up   B. searching        B. cross       B. hers        B. With        B. area        B. a result    B. wrote       B. driving     B. so long     B. know        B. help        B. flat        B. eagerly     B. friends     B. passed

C. calm        C. waving      C. young       C. could       C. turned back     C. expecting   C. center      C. itself      C. From        C. front       C. an answer   C. sent        C. returning   C. like that   C. suppose     C. forgive     C. place       C. noisily     C. drivers     C. found

D. quiet       D. old         D. old         D. would       D. turned down                   D. waiting     D. back        D. ours        D. Upon        D. side        D. a chance    D. discovered  D. cooking     D. any more    D. suggest     D. please      D. garage      D. early       D. writers     D. greeted

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