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Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.

“Early on I decided not to allow the    21   of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began    22     piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my   23   for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my hearing. Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the    24   and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never    25   me.

 “My   26   was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I    27   to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can    28   the pitch of a note(音调高低) by the vibrations(振动) I feel through my body and through my   29  . My entire sound world exists by making   30  of almost every  sense that I have.”

 “I was    31   to be a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I   32   to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had done this before and some teachers    33   my admission. Based on my performance, I was    34   admitted and went on to   35   with the academy’s highest honors.”

 “After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I    36   and arranged a lot of musical compositions since    37   had been written specially for solo percussionists.”

 “I have been a soloist for over ten years.    38   the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t    39    that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be    40   by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”

21. A. conditions   

B. opinions   

C. actions   

D. acts

22. A. playing   

B. choosing   

C. taking   

D. giving

23. A. practice    

B. passion   

C. skills    

D. interest

24. A. evidence   

B. result    

C. reason   

D. cause

25. A. left    

B. excited   

C. accompanied  

D. disappointed

26. A. purpose   

B. decision   

C. promise   

D. goal

27. A. turned   

B. learned   

C. used    

D. ought

28. A. tell     

B. see    

C. hear    

D. smell

29. A. carefulness  

B. movement  

C. imagination  

D. experiences

30. A. use    

B. effort    

C. study   

D. idea

31. A. dissatisfied  

B. astonished  

C. determined  

D. discouraged

32. A. got  

B. went  

C. applied 

D. entered

33. A. supported   

B. required   

C. followed  

D. opposed

34. A. easily 

B. finally   

C. possibly   

D. hopefully

35. A. study    

B. research   

C. graduate   

D. progress

36. A. wrote    

B. translated  

C. copied   

D. read

37. A. enough

B. some    

C. many    

D. few

38. A. However   

B. Although   

C. When   

D. Since

39. A. mean    

B. seem    

C. conclude   

D. say

40. A. directed   

B. guided   

C. taught   

D. limited

 

 21-25. BCBDA   26-30. DBACA   31-35. CCDBC    36-40. ADBAD

 

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