Question

Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___26___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___27___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___28___ is.”

The song made her ___29___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___30___. As a young ___31___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___32___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___33___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___34___to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___35___time for anything but music in your life.”

Dorothy was ___36___ at that time and she was ___37___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___38___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___39___ of nothing else. Then she ___40___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___41___. David asked her to be his ___42___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___43___,too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___44___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.

Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___45___.

 

26. A. sorry	B. successful	C. first	D. wonderful
27. A. dance	B. moment	C. show	D. party
28. A. voice	B. face	C. dress	D. life
29. A. think of	B. bring back	C. go back	D. come back
30. A. age	B. friend	C. mother	D. teacher
31. A. musician	B. pop star	C. lady	D. girl
32. A. French	B. music	C. piano	D. dance
33. A. actress	B. student	C. singer	D. dancer
34. A. prepared	B. learning	C. driven	D. waiting
35. A. some	B. any	C. no	D. enough
36. A. eight	B. eighteen	C. eighty	D. eighty-eight
37. A. lucky	B. sure	C. afraid	D. fond
38. A. fill	B. live	C. lead	D. take
39. A. heard	B. knew	C. talked	D. thought
40. A. saw off	B. learned from	C. heard of	D. met with
41. A. love	B. feeling	C. music	D. touch
42. A. assistant	B. teacher	C. wife	D. student
43. A. him	B. engineering	C. herself	D. music
44. A. certainly	B. possibly	C. only	D. mainly
45. A. thought	B. hope	C. purpose	D. will

Answer 1

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