Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her  36  concert. She had been waiting for this  37  for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her 38  is.
The song made her  39  to the days when she was Lauren’s  40 . As a young  41 , Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied 42  in France, Italy and in the United States, “You can become a fine  43 in the future, ” her teachers told her. “But you must be  44 to study hard and work for many years. There will be 45  time for anything but music in your life.” Dorothy was  46 at that time and she was  47  that music was all she wanted or needed to  48 her life. For almost a year Dorothy  49 of nothing else. Then she  50  David, a young engineer travelling in Europe. They soon fell in  51 .
David asked her to be his  52 . Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved  53 , too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t 54 do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return. Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her 55 .

A．sorry B．successful C．first D．wonderful

A．dance B．moment C．show D．party

A．voice B．face C．dress D．life

A．think of B．bring back C．go back D．come back

A．age B．friend C．mother D．teacher

A．musician B．pop star C．lady D．girl

A．French B．music C．piano D．dance

A．actress B．student C．singer D．dancer

A．prepared B．learning C．driven D．waiting

A．some B．any C．no D．enough

A．eight B．eighteen C．eighty D．eighty-eight

A．lucky B．sure C．afraid D．fond

A．fill B．live C．lead D．take

A．heard B．knew C．talked D．thought

A．saw off B．learned from C．heard of D．met with

A．love B．feeling C．music D．touch

A．assistant B．teacher C．wife D．student

A．him B．engineering C．herself D．music

A．certainly B．possibly C．only D．mainly

A．thought B．hope C．purpose D．will