完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby.   21   Robby said that it had always been his mother’s   22   to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.
Hard as Robby tried, he lacked the   23   of music. However, he persisted and at the end of each weekly   24   he’d always say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed   25  . I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged car to   26   him up. She always   27   and smiled but never visited my class. Then one day Robby   28   coming to our lessons. He telephoned me and said his mother was   29  .
A few weeks after that, I was   30   my students for the upcoming recital when Robby came and asked me   31  he could be in the recital. “Miss Hondorf… I’ll just go to play!” he insisted.
The night for the recital came. The high school gym was   32  with parents, friends and relatives. The recital   33   well. Then Robby came up on stage. I was   34   when he announced that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I had heard   35   his fingers were light on the keys. They even   36   on the keys… He played so well that everyone was on their   37 in wild applause (鼓掌). In tears I ran up on stage. “Oh Robby! How   38   you do it?”
“Well Miss Hondorf… I   39  on practicing at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well,   40   she had cancer and passed away this morning. She was born deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play…”
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A．Although B．Because C．But D．Thus

A．idea B．dream C．desire D．imagination

A．feeling B．knowledge C．education D．sense

A．trial B．attempt C．performance D．lesson

A．helpless B．hopeless C．senseless D．worthless

A．put B．take C．make D．pick

A．waved B．listened C．stared D．watched

A．escaped B．avoided C．stopped D．refused

A．deaf B．lonely C．away D．sick

A．preparing B．arranging C．persuading D．taking

A．that B．whether C．when D．how

A．filled B．covered C．crowded D．connected

A．went on B．turned on C．carried on D．kept on

A．delighted B．proud C．confused D．surprised

A．until B．while C．before D．since

A．danced B．tapped C．hit D．flew

A．heads B．feet C．ears D．eyes

A．should B．would C．could D．might

A．went B．kept C．continued D．stuck

A．unfortunately B．suddenly C．strangely D．actually