The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t __36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much __37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38___in the family, I went to college -----quite __39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to ___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43___ the job and go to Europe to study __44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to ___47_.
The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48___necessary, so I resigned from my __49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51___every minute of it. I was a _52__man and I was doing what I__53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, __54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have _55__all those that money can never buy.
Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.

A．receive B．accept C．refuse D．keep

A．respected B．hated C．doubted D．scolded

A．excuse B．chance C．promise D．example

A．happily B．sadly C．hopelessly D．nervously

A．interests B．pities C．experiments D．problems

A．this B．that C．it D．one

A．question B．help C．warn D．visit

A．give up B．give in C．go on D．throw away

A．computer B．law C．history D．music

A．after B．in case C．before D．the moment

A．firstly B．finally C．generally D．lately

A．go back B．go home C．go abroad D．go down

A．no longer B．of course C．in fact D．much too

A．position B．college C．home D．friends

A．Asia B．Europe C．Africa D．North America

A．wasted B．lost C．forgot D．enjoyed

A．native B．free C．wise D．weak

A．repeated B．offered C．loved D．signed

A．so B．and C．but D．for

A．missed B．gained C．achieved D．won