完形填空Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. "At that time, we would 1 around and take all morning just to have a lesson," Phoenix 2 . "And I loved it."But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better 3 . 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 but known for being 4 . And she quickly lived up to that 5 . Phoenix found the stressful life was 6 like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn't long before he 7 that he would quit.One day, however, Bade 8 him and said something surprising: "I have 9 in you. Keep going." Then the reluctant student did something surprising 10 , he said, "Okay.""It was as if all I wanted was just a 11 from her that she cared about me," Phoenix said.That moment 12 their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having 13 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 14 and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years," Phoenix said. "And I 15 it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon."
(1)
A .
joke
B .
walk
C .
look
D .
stick
(2)
A .
announced
B .
sighed
C .
recalled
D .
regretted
(3)
A .
instruction
B .
behaviour
C .
recognition
D .
relationship
(4)
A .
sweet
B .
tough
C .
violent
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 .
doubt
C .
faith
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 .
transformed
B .
recovered
C .
ruined
D .
clouded
(13)
A .
stress
B .
fun
C .
patience
D .
argument
(14)
A .
acting
B .
singing
C .
music
D .
composition
(15)
A .
leave
B .
lead
C .
add
D .
owe
答案:(1)A;(2)C;(3)A;(4)B;(5)D;(6)C;(7)D;(8)B;(9)C;(10)A;(11)B;(12)A;(13)B;(14)C;(15)D;