阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition─to play the drums in a band. But a(n) 21
lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived
next-door to lots of 22 people in a care home. The sound of 23 drums would really
annoy them.
Brenda was 24 . She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without 25
other people, but without success. However, 26 to practice as much as she could, Brenda tried all kinds of ways.
One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that 27 cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a 28 astronaut.
So Brenda built a space bubble 29 with a machine, which drew out all air. Inside was a set of drums. Once inside, Brenda 30 the machine and played like mad.
It wasn’t long before she had become 31 . Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards, she started giving concerts out of the bubble. 32 Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first 33 of playing drums in a band.
When asked how she had achieved all this, she said, “If those old people next door hadn’t 34 so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to find a(n) 35 , and none of this would have ever happened.
21. A. obstacle B. question C. hand D. figure
22. A. poor B. sick C. elderly D. local
23. A. beating B. bending C. spinning D. sticking
24. A. delightful B. wonderful C. awful D. respectful
25. A. bearing B. bothering C. pitying D. praying
26.A. encouraged B. determined C. thrilled D. scared
27. A. heat B. air C. light D. sound
28. A. classical B. physical C. musical D. medical
29.A. associated B. attached C. joined D. connected
30. A. held on B. turned on C. put on D. got on
31. A. famous B. skillful C. confident D. mature
32. A. Generally B. Finally. C. Suddenly D. Fortunately
33. A. performance B. effort C. attempt D. ambition
34. A. related B. owe C. mattered D. talked
35. A. instruction B. introduction C. solution D. evolution
