marianne, a schoolgirl, was learning to play the piano, and day after day her father stood behind her as she practised. how 1 and kind her father was, and how clearly he showed marianne how to play some particularly difficult 2 ! she was making pro-gress and that was excellent.
and there, almost 3 in the big chair, sat wolfgang, her four-year-old brother, who never had to be told to keep 4 when marianne was practising.
one evening at sundown the father patted marianne’s shoulder saying she had done quite well. at the 5 wolfgang climbed on his father’s knee and 6 to be allowed to play the pretty piece marianne had now 7 . what a 8 that was! picking up his baby so, the father laughed, tapped the tiny nose and 9 , “look at your small 10 . why, you cannot 11 all the notes yet. you must 12 , little man.”
there was no end of 13 during the tea, and marianne had to tell her mother a-bout wolfgang 14 to play one of the classics (经典音乐). after dinner marianne helped 15 the dishes when the father lit his pipe.
but the pipe 16 . he was on his 17 . “listen!” he said in an astonished voice. “listen! marianne is playing that piece much prettier than ever,” he 18 .
but marianne was washing plates in the kitchen.
his wife following, he moved slowly upstairs. a lamp in one hand and his pipe in the other, he 19 open the door, and there was little wolfgang playing in 20 . “i love it so,” whispered the child.
1. a. worried b. happy
c. patient d. anxious
2. a. one b. piece c. song d. piano
3. a. disappeared b. hurt
c. lost d. missed
4. a. watched b. calm c. quiet d. hack
5. a. moment b. time c. point d. minute
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