完形填空 I had always loved music and dreamed of being a musician, traveling to different countries, meeting lots of people and doing something I loved to earn my money.__ 1 __, my parents had a farm and I didn't want to do that-I wanted to do something __ 2 __.However, I had always been shy and too nervous to try playing music in public. I had been playing the __ 3 __ since I was ten years old, but t he idea of playing in front of other people was very __ 4 __. I started one day, when a local youth club advertised a talent show-anybody who could play an instrument or sing could put his name down to be in concert.I singed myself up. When the day of the show came, I was so __ 5 __ that I couldn't eat.It was the first time I had played in front of other people and I felt __ 6 __ unsure of myself.I had no idea whether I was __ 7 __ good and was worried that no one would like me. When my turn came, I played my favorite tune and I even started to __ 8 __! I could not hear what I sounded like, but to my surprise, I eventually forgot about all the people in the audience and started to enjoy myself.When the song ended, everyone clapped and some people __ 9 __! After the show a man __ 10 __ up to me to say how much he enjoyed my __ 11 __.He said that he had a rock band, and they needed to take on a guitar player.He asked me to come along the next day to have a try.This successful trial turned my dream into __ 12 __.In the following days, we __ 13 __ around a lot, playing in concerts in lots of places around the world.Sometimes we would enter competitions and once we went on TV. We really enjoyed ourselves and life was like a big long holiday.As we became more successful, we had to work harder and practice more and eventually I became __ 14 __ of traveling so much.But now, nearly fifty years later, I look back on those carefree days of my __ 15 __ as among the best moments of my life. (     )1. A. Besides (     )2. A. similar (     )3. A. guitar (     )4. A. enjoyable (     )5. A. nervous (     )6. A. exactly (     )7. A. some (     )8. A. dance (     )9. A. shouted (     )10. A. looked (     )11. A. performance (     )12. A. practice (     )13. A. toured (     )14. A. fond (     )15. A. competitions B. Thus B. normal B. violin B. attractive B. inspired B. hardly B. any B. act B. jumped B. came B. behavior B. consideration B. ran B. tired B. memory C. Therefore C. strange C. piano C. exciting C. disappointed C. extremely C. well C. announce C. praised C. went C. presence C. reality C. worked C. aware C. friendship D. Instead D. different D. drum D. frightening D. excited D. highly D. much D. sing D. cheered D. faced D. instrument D. effect D. turned D. proud D. youth