Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.” The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.” Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return. Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___. 1. A. sorry      B. successful   C. first    D. wonderful 2. A. dance     B. moment     C. show   D. party 3. A. voice      B. face    C. dress   D. life 4. A. think of  B. bring back  C. go back      D. come back 5. A. age B. friend C. mother       D. teacher 6. A. musician B. pop star      C. lady    D. girl 7. A. French   B. music  C. piano  D. dance 8. A. actress    B. student       C. singer D. dancer 9. A. prepared B. learning     C. driven D. waiting 10. A. some    B. any     C. no     D. enough 11. A. eight     B. eighteen     C. eighty D. eighty-eight 12. A. lucky    B. sure    C. afraid  D. fond 13. A. fill       B. live     C. lead    D. take 14. A. heard    B. knew  C. talked D. thought 15. A. saw off        B. learned from      C. heard of     D. met with 16. A. love     B. feeling       C. music  D. touch 17. A. assistant       B. teacher       C. wife    D. student 18. A. him      B. engineering       C. herself       D. music 19. A. certainly      B. possibly     C. only    D. mainly 20. A. thought                B. hope       C. purpose      D. will