题目内容：

    I was 11 years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were badly off in the recession (经济衰退). She said a_______“no”.

That didn’t stop me. I Googled the_______for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and ________it on my desk. I would click _______on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one – keeping the_______we they made on the computer in my _______. I spend six months playing without______a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was_______, she got into debt to buy me ten lessons.

In the first lesson I was_______by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons.________we couldn’t afford lessons again. I________grade three, then grade five,_______only on my piece of paper. When I was about 13, my mom said she had a_______for me: it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more______money.

My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young_______. The tryouts (选拔) were________. Some of the questions involved a judgment on the composer (作曲家) or when it was written. I felt stuck. To my amazement I was offered a_____. There, I worked as hard as I could to improve my performance and save enough money to buy my _______piano.

I feel proud: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and now I’m at one of the world’s leading music schools. However, the irony is that I________doing a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call________practice. The paper piano helped spark my curiosity about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.

1.A.determined B.polite C.flat D.strong

2.A.measurements B.colors C.design D.principle

3.A.laid B.stuck C.threw D.folded

4.A.links B.tunes C.notes D.buttons

5.A.noise B.video C.image D.sound

6.A.voice B.hand C.head D.ear

7.A.touching B.seeing C.buying D.hearing

8.A.patient B.serious C.interested D.optimistic

9.A.terrified B.confused C.annoyed D.struck

10.A.Lately B.Meanwhile C.Sometimes D.Afterwards

11.A.passed B.missed C.organized D.quit

12.A.operating B.focusing C.practicing D.experimenting

13.A.prize B.surprise C.secret D.chance

14.A.borrowed B.hidden C.earned D.pocketed

15.A.students B.programmers C.musicians D.performers

16.A.difficult B.various C.common D.formal

17.A.job B.mark C.class D.place

18.A.best B.favorite C.first D.new

19.A.set about B.keep on C.turn to D.jump at

20.A.junior B.casual C.regular D.mental