题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
北京市房山区2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期末试卷
A Musical Astronaut
Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big dream—to play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to 1a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them were sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would really make them 2. So, she had tried playing in the strangest places: a basement(地下室), a kitchen, and even in a shower. However, there was always someone it would annoy(打扰). To practice as much as she could, Brenda spent most of her time playing on books and boxes, and looking for new places to practice.
One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she3that sound cannot travel in space, because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a sort of musical astronaut.
With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda 4a space bubble. This was a big glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out(吸出)all the air inside. Only a set of drums and a chair would be 5inside the bubble. Brenda also made herself a space suit. She put on the suit, entered the bubble, turned on the 6, and played those drums like a wild child.
Soon Brenda Bongos became very famous. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Then she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. As her fame(名气)spread7, the government suggested that she should be part of a special space journey.
Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and had gone far beyond her first dream of playing drums in a band.
Years later, when asked how she had achieved all this, she thought for a moment, and said: "If those old people next-door hadn't mattered so much to me, I wouldn't have found a(an)8, and none of this would have ever happened. "In the face of difficulties, Brenda showed her kindness, she worked hard and never stopped trying.
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