Ⅰ.完形填空
(2014福建)
From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital (独奏会)．A recital __1__ I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.Each year I __2__ ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”．And each year he'd shake his head, muttering (嘀咕)__3__ about building selfconfidence and working towards a __4__.
