题目内容：

Eight days before I turned 18, I stepped on to the stage at Brixton Academy （布里克斯顿学院）. My family had travelled miles to _______. Perhaps now they understood why I had _______ out of school after GCSHs（普通中等教育证书）.

At 15, I started a _______ with three mates. To our great joy, many people liked our performance and slowly things began to _______. Two years later, we _______ a record deal with Independiente, a famous record company. We toured with them and built up a small but _______ group of fans. At the end of 2002, a well-known rock band _______ us to play with them. My teenage dream came true: the band I looked up to seemed to _______ us.

Our first album _______ in 2003. The Observer declared it “a snapshot（快照） of one of the most important bands of their generation”. ____________, no one bought the awful thing.

Looking back, I think that was ____________. Though I’m incredibly proud of the music we ____________, we were riding a wave of hype（大肆宣传）we could never ____________. Our label quietly dropped us and play time in a band was ____________.

After I left the band, I asked my old school if I could ____________. They pleasantly welcomed me back, though I was ____________ than the other students. I worked harder than ever and ended up at Oxford University.

The band had ____________ everything. It took me out of Bolton and around the world. I ____________ that with a little luck and a lot of hard work, anything can happen. Now 1 often tell my ____________ life to my students. And when they tell me their dreams, I will ____________ them. After all, if I managed to make it that far, why shouldn’t they?

1.A. stop    B. watch    C. loneliness    D. misery

2.A. taken    B. let    C. run    D. dropped

3.A. band    B. company    C. tour    D. school

4.A. take place    B. go wrong    C. pick up    D. show up

5.A. cancelled    B. signed    C. broke    D. shared

6.A. devoted    B. ambitious    C. honest    D. optimistic

7.A. caused    B. applied    C. invited    D. ordered

8.A. know of    B. approve of    C. hear of    D. talk of

9.A. published    B. failed    C. struggled    D. released

10.A. Eventually    B. Exactly    C. Unfortunately    D. Actually

11.A. right    B. responsible    C. cruel    D. foolish

12.A. produced    B. wrote    C. enjoyed    D. shared

13.A. dream about    B. live up to    C. think about    D. put up with

14.A. on    B. back    C. over    D. up

15.A. succeed    B. return    C. resign    D. help

16.A. younger    B. cleverer    C. older    D. slower

17.A. changed    B. took    C. ruined    D. made

18.A. promised    B. doubted    C. hoped    D. learned

19.A. present    B. intelligent    C. easy    D. previous

20.A. congratulate    B. encourage    C. forgive    D. praise