My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon. I tried as hard as I could to remain clam.but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered shaking hands. I looked up again a 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon.

I tried as hard as I could to remain clam，but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered shaking hands.

I looked up again at the audience，realizing that these were real people. They were not just my mum and dad，who would say，“Good job!”even if I messed up the entire piece.

What if I had the wrong music? What if I played the wrong notes?

As it turned, I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight was waiting for me. I grasped my hands tightly together，drying off the sweat.

Slowly I walked to the piano in the center of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys，which were waiting impatiently to be played. Slowly, I opened the music. Next，I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory keys.

As my fingers played across the keys，I was becoming more unsure of my preparation for this moment. But the memory of my year of training came flooding back. I knew that I had practiced this piece times that I could play it backwards if requested.

Although at one point I accidentally played two keys instead of the intended one，I continued to move my fingers automatically.

My eyes burned holes into the page in front of me.

There was no way that 1 was going to lose my concentration. To keep this promise to myself，I leaned forward and focused carefully on the music.

When I came to the end of the page，a warning went off inside my head：DON’T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU TURN THE PAGE!

Needless to say，I obeyed myself with all my mind. And，proud of my“page-turning”feat, I finished the rest of the piece without making a single mistake.

After the final note died away，a celebration went into action inside my head. I had finished. I had mastered the impossible.

1．The author was nervous before the performance because .

A．her mother and father weren’t present

B．the strong spotlight was shining onto the stage

C．she hadn’t mastered the entire piece

D．she had never performed in public before

2．The underlined phrase “mess up” in Paragraph 3 probably means .

A．put into disorder B．forget about C．stop halfway D．do well in

3．The author .

A．didn’t make any mistake in the performance

B．felt better at t he beginning of the performance

C．paid all attention to nothing but her performance

D．lost her concentration sometimes during the performance

4．What did the author feel about her performance?

A．She thought it was comfortable and successful.

B．She thought it was very difficult but successful.

C．She thought she had never made a mistake during the performance.

D．She thought she played through the piece carefully but light-heartedly.

DACB

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