高考英语语法填空练习5篇the story of langlang

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The Story of Lang Lang

(1)

As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read notes, and my father, Guo-ren Lang, concertmaster of a local folk orchestra(交响乐), showed me ___1___ to control the keys. At first I played ___2___ clunky Chinese keyboards -- cheap, but the best we could afford. Later my parents bought me ___3___ Swedish piano, but I broke half the strings on it ___4___ (play) Tchaikovsky. To be a serious ___5___ (music), I would have to move to Beijing, one of our cultural capitals, ___6___ I was just eight years old. My father, who played the erhu, a two-stringed instrument, ___7___ (know) that life wouldn't be easy. You need fortune, my father said. ___8___ you don't work, no fortune comes. ___9___ music is still music, he added, and it exists to make ___10___ happy.

(2)

To relocate to Beijing with me, my father made a great sacrifice. He quit his concertmaster's job, ___1___ he loved, and my mother stayed behind in Shenyang to keep ___2___ (work) at her job at the science institute to support us. My father cooked, cleaned and ___3___ after me. We lived far from my school, and ___4___ the bus was too expensive, my father would "drive" me on his bicycle every day. It was ___5___ hour-and-a-half trip each way, and I was a heavy boy, much ___6___ (heavy) than I am as an adult. During the coldest nights, ___7___ I practiced piano, my father would lie in ___8___ bed so it would be warm when I was tired. I was miserable, but not from the ___9___ (poor) or pressure. My new teacher in Beijing didn't like me. "You have ___10___ talent," she often told me. "You will never be a pianist." And one day, she "fired" me.

(3) I was just nine years old. I was devastated. I didn't want to be a pianist anymore, I decided. For the next two weeks I didn't touch the piano. ___1___ (wise), my father didn't push but ___2___ (wait). One day my teacher asked me to play some holiday songs. I didn't want to, ___3___ as I placed my fingers on the piano's keys, I realized I had talent after all. That day I told my father ___4___ he'd been waiting to hear -- that I wanted to study with a new teacher. ___5___ then on, everything turned around. I started winning ___6___ (compete). We still had very little money -- my father had to ___7___ $5,000 to pay for a trip to ___8___ International Young Pianists Competition in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1994, when I was 12. I realized later how much pressure he was ___9___ as I watched footage of the contest. Tears streamed down his face ___10___ it was announced that I'd won -- earning enough money to pay back our loan.

(4)

It was soon clear I couldn't stay in China forever. ___1___ (become) a world-class musician, I had to play on the world's big stages. In 1997, my father and I moved to Philadelphia to attend The Curtis Institute of Music. Finally ___2___ money worries were easing. The school paid for ___3___ apartment and even lent me a Steinway. I wanted to become famous, ___4___ my new teachers reminded me that I had a lot to learn. I spent two years ___5___ (practise), and by 1999 I had worked hard enough for fortune to take ___6___. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra heard me play and ___7___ (like) me, and I thought I might join them in a few years. The next morning, I got a call. The great pianist Andre Watts, ___8___was to play the "Gala Benefit Evening" at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, had become ill. I was asked to substitute(代替，取替). That performance was, for me, the moment. ___9___violinist Isaac Stern introduced me, I played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. My father's mouth hung ___10___ (open) throughout the entire song.

(5)

Afterward, people celebrated -- maybe they were a bit drunk -- and asked me to play Bach's Goldberg Variations. So I played ___1___3:30 a.m. Still, my father kept telling me, "You'd better practice!" But ___2___ (live) in America with me was beginning to relax him. In Beijing I'd been fat ___3___ he'd been skinny. Now I was getting thin and he wasn't. And I wanted to do something special for ___4___. So when I made my Carnegie Hall solo recital debut (个人独奏) in 2003 ___5___the age of 21, I ___6___ (include) Chinese music. My father and I had often practiced a piece called "Horses," ___7___ fun version for piano and erhu. That night in Carnegie Hall, ___8___ I played Chopin and Liszt, we played our duet. People went crazy -- they loved it, ___9___ made my father too happy to sleep for days!

There have been lots of concerts in Carnegie Hall, but for me playing there was especially sweet when I remember the cold days in Beijing. Together, my father and I worked to reach the lucky place ___10___ fortune spots you, and lets you shine.