题目内容：

Tim, my seven-year-old son, is learning to play the drums. It is an___ that has always caught his attentipn ___he hears them played. Before I____his first lessons, drums were all he wanted. At the age of 3 he___ his mini drum set during a show. Using that same drum set he perfected the timing and rhythm of a popular church song____ enough for his mom to sing along to. My son had found his passion at a young age and had a natural____to catch on quickly.

Wanting to act quickly to __ his talent, I immediately signed him up for drum lessons. No sooner had my first payment cleared than his passion __. He did not want to take instructions. He wanted to play the drums_______,    To    him the drums were a way of ___. Ian wanted to “play the beat of his own drum.”

The challenge was that music has more than one __ Rock doesn’t sound like smooth jazz and smooth jazz doesn’t sound like___ You can’t play every __ that exists to the same beat. If ___were a series of songs, the melodies __ could be calming and peacefiil, or violent and chaotic. Each event we face has its____own sound, so we have to learn __ to play the tune of the moment. You should understand that even with all the natural talent in the world there is always___ for improvement.

You can't do it all without ___.

You won’t know how to play every beat life throws at you without practice.

You can’t____talent forever.

1.A. arrangement    B. enjoyment    C. instrument    D. advertisement

2.A. anyway    B. however    C. whatever    D. anytime

3.A. paid for    B. waited on    C. took off    D. burst into

4.A. founded    B. played    C. lost    D. learned

5.A. similar    B. horrible    C. good    D. strange

6.A. taste    B. talent    C. tendency    D. habit

7.A. improve    B. decrease    C. discover    D. admit

8.A. rose    B. strengthened    C. progressed    D. disappeared

9.A. by himself    B. in his way    C. in person    D. with others

10.A. expression    B. possession    C. permission    D. impression

11.A. form    B. sound    C. beat    D. advantage

12.A. nature    B. culture    C. view    D. folk

13.A. poem    B. song    C. sport    D. game

14.A. luck    B. life    C. truth    D. music

15.A. at times    B. as usual    C. in general    D. on average

16.A. quite    B. well    C. fast    D. very

17.A. when    B. where    C. how    D. why

18.A. place    B. spot    C. scenery    D. room

19.A. instructions    B. efforts    C. contributions    D. experiences

20.A. figure out    B. put off    C. rely on    D. take in