学生啦：课时作业（五）Unit2 SectionⅡGrammar and usage Integratedskills【阅读理解ASix years ago at the age of 35,I suddenly decided I wanted to leam the cello.Straight away Irented an instrument and appeared before Wendell Margrave,professor of musical instruction."You can be as good as you want to be,Margrave said rather mysteriously.Then heentered my name in book:10 am,Tuesday.Tuesday followed Tuesday,and soon it was spring.Thus I began my voyage out of ignorance and into the dream.It was a happy time.I wasagain becoming something new,and no longer trapped as the same person.Surely the mostterrible recognition of middle life is that we are past changing.We do what we can already do.Thecello was something I couldn't do.Yet each Tuesday this became less and less true.Riding homeon the bus one snowy night and leaming the score of Mozarts C-Major Quintet I felt the pageburst into music in my hands.I could by then more or less read a score,and was humming thecello line,when suddenly all five parts came together harmonically in my head.The fellow sittingopposite stared.I met his glance with tears,actually hearing the music in my head for the first time.Could he hear it too,perhaps?No,he got off at the next stop.As the years slipped by,my daughter grew up,playing the piano well.My goal was that sheand I would one day perform together.I also wanted to perform in public with and for my peers,and to be secretly envied.I continued to play,to perform,but it is not the same.As good as Iwanted to be,I am as good as I'm going to get.It is good enough.1.From the first two paragraphs,we can leam thatA.the author went to a cello lesson every TuesdayB.the author bought a cello after he decided to leam itC.the author already knew some cello basicsD.Margrave was a famous but mysterious professor2.The author writes that"It was a happy time"in Paragraph 3 mainly becauseA.he used to feel very bored with his unchallenging lifeB.it was beautiful to be able to hear the music in his mindC.Professor Margrave made leaming the cello very easy for himD.he enjoyed the feelings of growth and getting closer to his dream3.The purpose of the article is mainly toA.show the author's deep gratitude to his cello tutorB.advise readers on how to improve their cello skillsC.encourage readers that it's never too late to pursue their dreamsD.describe the author's incredible efforts to overcome difficultiesGeorge Li was bom in 1995 and now is a young pianist on the rise.At age 10,he gave hisfirst public concert and in 2015,he won a silver medal at International Tchaikovsky Competition