For a long time Gabriel didn't want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, __36__across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, __37__at school for practice hours __38__ anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to__39__music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

__40___, one day, in the music class that was __41__of his school's standard curriculurn, he was playing idly （随意地）on the piano and found it ____42___to pick out tunes.With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually __43__doing it. He tried to hide his __44__pleasure from the music teacher, who had __45__over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, __46__the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good___47__and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there __48__him. There he decided to give the cello(大提琴) a __49__. When he began practicing,he took it very __50__. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was __51__to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This __52__, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, __53__his heavy instrument case across the campus to the __54__looks of the non-musicians he had left__55__.

36. A．travelling

    B．marching

    C．pacing

    D．struggling

37. A．rising up

    B．coming up

    C．driving up

    D．turning up

38. A．before

    B．after

    C．until

    D．since

39. A．betray

    B．accept

    C．avoid

    D．appreciate

40. A．Therefore

    B．However

    C．Thus

    D．Moreover

41. A．part

    B．nature

    C．basis

    D．spirit

42. A．complicate

    B．safe

    C．confusing

    D．easy

43. A．missed

    B．disliked

    C．enjoyed

    D．denied

44. A．transparent

    B．obvious

    C．false

    D．similar

45. A．run

    B．jogged

    C．jumped

    D．wandered

46. A．because

    B．but

    C．though

    D．so

47. A．ear

    B．taste

    C．heart

    D．voice

48. A．occurred to

    B．took to

    C．appealed to

    D．held to

49. A．change

    B．chance

    C．mission

    D．function

50. A．seriously

    B．proudly

    C．casually

    D．naturally

51. A．committed

    B．used

    C．limited

    D．admitted

52. A．proved

    B．showed

    C．stressed

    D．meant

53. A．pushing

    B．dragging

    C．lifting

    D．rushing

54. A．admiring

    B．pitying

    C．annoying

    D．teasing

55. A．over

    B．aside

    C．behind

    D．out