2012届高考英语二轮训练卷13.docVIP

2012届高考英语二轮训练卷13（新课标） 第二节 完型填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 When Jackie came to his first piano lesson in his mothers car, he was already 11 years old．I 1 students begin at an earlier age, but owing to his insistence, I took him as a student．_2_ Jackie tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm．At the end of each lesson hed say, My moms going to hear me play someday． But it seemed 3 ．I only knew his mother from a(n） _4 as she waited in her aged car but never slopped in． Then one day Jackie stopped coming to our lessons．I thought about calling him but _5_because of his lack of ability, that he had decided to quit．I also was glad that he stopped coming-he was a bad 6 for my teaching! Several weeks later I mailed to the students homes a letter on the 7 concert．Surprisingly, Jackie received and asked me if he could be in the concert I told him that the concert was not for dropouts, but for 8 pupils．He said that his mom had been sick and unable lo take him to piano lessons but he was still practicing．I dont know what led me to agree _9_． The night for the concert came．The high school gymnasium was packed with parents and friends．I 10 Jackie last in the program．I thought that any damage he would do would come at the end of the program and the negative effect would reduce to the 11 ． The concert went off smoothly. Then Jackie came up on stage. His clothes were 12 and his hair looked messy. “Why didn’t his mother 13 make him comb his hair for this special night?” I thought. I was surprised when Jackie chose Mozart’s Concerto #21 in C Major and not 14 for what I heard next. 15 , after six and a half minutes he ended up very well. Everyone 16 with excitement. I ran up on stage and put my arms around Jackie in joy. “I’ve never heard you play like that! How’d you do it?” “Well…remember I told you my mom was sick?” he explained, “Actually she had cancer and 17 this morning. And…she was born deaf so tonight was the first time