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