题目内容：

Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.

Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my ___36___ was more manageable, I ___37___ ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. ___38___ that was years ago and times have changed. ___39___ I live with my mother on a country farm.

Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to ___40___ my disability pension(残疾抚恤金). ___41___ I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my ___42___. I decided that I would consider ___43___ to singing in restaurants.

My family are all musicians, so I was ___44___ when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of ___45___ to get started. And ___46___ you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can ___47___ use.

When I told the owner of the shop about my ___48___, he gave me a long, thoughtful ___49___. “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”

He led me ___50___ the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand ___51___ on his treasure and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your ___52___ and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”

I ___53___. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose ___54___ that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.

His ___55___ still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

1.                A．sadness        B．tiredness        C．sickness  D．loneliness

 

2.                A．enjoyed        B．kept           C．shared   D．set

 

3.                A．Eventually       B．Unfortunately    C．Surprisingly    D．Gladly

 

4.                A．Then           B．Sometime       C．Meanwhile    D．Now

 

5.                A．make up for     B．get rid of        C．take advantage of   D．add up to

 

6.                A．As             B．Though         C．Before   D．If

 

7.                A．condition       B．choices         C．positions  D．movement

 

8.                A．living up        B．getting on       C．going back D．reaching out

 

9.                A．interviewed     B．found          C．invited   D．recognized

 

10.               A．time           B．energy         C．knowledge D．money

 

11.               A．once          B．seldom         C．often D．thus

 

12.               A．hardly         B．nearly          C．formerly   D．actually

 

13.               A．family          B．idea           C．offer D．job

 

14.               A．view           B．look           C．sight  D．face

 

15.               A．along          B．towards        C．through   D．over

 

16.               A．lovingly        B．pitifully         C．gratefully  D．unhappily

 

17.               A．turn           B．role           C．step  D．pick

 

18.               A．ought to cry     B．should have cried C．could have cried D．had to cry

 

19.               A．the ones        B．few            C．the rest   D．more

 

20.               A．devotion       B．kindness        C．trust  D．courage