Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would_______around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix_______. “And I loved it.”
But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better_______.So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced bit known for being _______. And she quickly lived up to that _______.Phoenix found the stressful life was_______like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he_______that he would quit.
One day, however, Bade_______him and said something surprising: “I have_______in you. Keep going. Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”
“It was as if all I wanted was just a________from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.
That moment________their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having________during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.
“I went into________and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I ________it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”
1.A.walk | B.joke | C.look | D.stick |
2.A.announced | B.sighed | C.regretted | D.recalled |
3.A.instruction | B.behaviour | C.recognition | D.relationship |
4.A.sweet | B.violent | C.tough | D.strange |
5.A.expectation | B.standard | C.quality | D.reputation |
6.A.something | B.everything | C.nothing | D.anything |
7.A.pretended | B.admitted | C.rejected | D.decided |
8.A.attended to | B.turned to | C.lied to | D.referred to |
9.A.courage | B.faith | C.doubt | D.luck |
10.A.in return | B.in vain | C.in time | D.in peace |
11.A.promise | B.sign | C.notice | D.vision |
12.A.recovered | B.transformed | C.ruined | D.clouded |
13.A.stress | B.patience | C.fun | D.argument |
14.A.acting | B.singing | C.composition | D.music |
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