题型:完形填空 题类:模拟题 难易度:困难
广东省惠州市2020届高三英语6月模拟考试卷
I was 11 years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were badly off in the recession (经济衰退). She said a1"no".
That didn't stop me. I Googled the2for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and3 it on my desk. I would click 4 on an online keyboard and "play" them back on my paper one – keeping the5they made on the computer in my6. I spend six months playing without7a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was8, she got into debt to buy me ten lessons.
In the first lesson I was9by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons.10we couldn't afford lessons again. I11grade three, then grade five,12only on my piece of paper. When I was about 13, my mom said she had a13for me: it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more14money.
My school didn't offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young15. The tryouts (选拔) were16. Some of the questions involved a judgment on the composer (作曲家) or when it was written. I felt stuck. To my amazement I was offered a17. There, I worked as hard as I could to improve my performance and save enough money to buy my18piano.
I feel proud: it's been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and now I'm at one of the world's leading music schools. However, the irony is that I19doing a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call20practice. The paper piano helped spark my curiosity about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.
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