第二節：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

請閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

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 curriculum, he was playing idly (隨意地) 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 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    B. took to               C. appealed          D. held to

49. A. change      B. chance               C. mission             D. function

50. A. seriously    B. proudly              C. casually             D. admitted

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

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