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.
| 小题1: | | A．sadness | B．tiredness | C．sickness | D．loneliness |
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| 小题2: | | A．enjoyed | B．kept | C．shared | D．set |
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| 小题3: | | A．Eventually | B．Unfortunately | C．Surprisingly | D．Gladly |
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| 小题4: | | A．Then | B．Sometime | C．Meanwhile | D．Now |
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| 小题5: | | A．make up for | B．get rid of | C．take advantage of | D．add up to |
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| 小题7: | | A．condition | B．choices | C．positions | D．movement |
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| 小题8: | | A．living up | B．getting on | C．going back | D．reaching out |
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| 小题9: | | A．interviewed | B．found | C．invited | D．recognized |
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| 小题10: | | A．time | B．energy | C．knowledge | D．money |
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| 小题11: | | A．once | B．seldom | C．often | D．thus |
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| 小题12: | | A．hardly | B．nearly | C．formerly | D．actually |
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| 小题13: | | A．family | B．idea | C．offer | D．job |
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| 小题14: | | A．view | B．look | C．sight | D．face |
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| 小题15: | | A．along | B．towards | C．through | D．over |
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| 小题16: | | A．lovingly | B．pitifully | C．gratefully | D．unhappily |
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| 小题18: | | A．ought to cry | B．should have cried | C．could have cried | D．had to cry |
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| 小题19: | | A．the ones | B．few | C．the rest | D．more |
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| 小题20: | | A．devotion | B．kindness | C．trust | D．courage |
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