Robby was 11 years old when his mother dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I
36 that students begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby, but Robby said that it had been his mother’s
37 to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.
Hard
38 Robby tried, he lacked the basic sense of music. However, he persisted, and at the end of each weekly
39 , he always said, “My mom’s going to hear me play some day.” But it seemed
40 . He just did not have any gift for music.
I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby
41 or waited in her old car to
42 him up. She always
43 and smiled but never visited my class. Then one day Robby
44 coming to our lessons. He telephoned me and said his mother was
45 .
Several weeks later I was preparing my students for the upcoming recital(独奏会)
46 Robby came and asked me if he could be in the recital. “Miss Hondorf ... I’ve just got to
47 !” he insisted. I agreed.
The night for the recital came. The high school gymnasium was
48 with parents, friends and relatives. The recital went off well. Finally Robby came up on stage. I was
49 when he announced that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto(协奏曲) No. 21 in C Major. I was not
50 what I heard next. His fingers were light on the keys. He played so
51 that everyone
52 to applaud him. In tears I ran up on
53 . “Oh, Robby! How did you do it?”
“Well, Miss Hondorf ... I kept on
54 at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well,
_55 she had cancer and passed away this morning. And well ... she was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play ...”
| 小题1: | | A．prefer | B．imagine | C．suppose | D．wish |
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| 小题2: | | A．plan | B．belief | C．need | D．dream |
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| 小题3: | | A．although | B．while | C．as | D．if |
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| 小题4: | | A．conference | B．lesson | C．test | D．show |
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| 小题5: | | A．successful | B．senseless | C．wonderful | D．hopeless |
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| 小题8: | | A．waved | B．sang | C．jumped | D．left |
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| 小题9: | | A．finished | B．broke | C．stopped | D．continued |
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| 小题10: | | A．tired | B．sick | C．deaf | D．unhappy |
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| 小题12: | | A．succeed | B．learn | C．play | D．listen |
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| 小题13: | | A．seated | B．filled | C．surrounded | D．mixed |
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| 小题14: | | A．surprised | B．certain | C．disappointed | D．angry |
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| 小题15: | | A．pleased with | B．interested in | | C．eager for | D．prepared for |
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| 小题16: | | A．bad | B．hard | C．differently | D．well |
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| 小题17: | | A．raised | B．rose | C．lifted | D．left |
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| 小题18: | | A．platform | B．stairs | C．stage | D．floor |
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| 小题19: | | A．practising | B．listening | C．training | D．performing |
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| 小题20: | | A．luckily | B．therefore | C．however | D．actually |
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