Question

Be True to Yourself

I first started playing the piano when I was three. My parents are musicians by profession, so they were both very encouraging. It was their dream, I think, to raise a child who could one day become a world - class pianist. So they hired an expensive tutor to teach me, and I practiced every day, sometimes for five or six hours at a time. Despite the long hours and the frustration, I did enjoy it, especially at first, and I was good. According to my parents and my tutor, I was really outstanding, and I was on the road to becoming a professional musician, just like my mother and father.

The trouble was, my heart really wasn't in it. My real passion was for something quite different—mathematics. Numbers, formulas, equations—these were the things that really sparked my imagination. I found more beauty in a mathematical equation, I told my parents, than in a piano concert. So when I went to college, I chose to major in mathematics, not music. Then I got a job working with numbers every day. My parents couldn't understand, and even now I don't think they've really forgiven me. They said I wasted a special gift. But I still believe what I did was right, for me.

1.When he was a child,__________.

A. the writer hated playing the piano

B. the writer could have become a pianist

C. the writer' s piano tutor was extremely strict

D. the writer' s parents were not encouraging

2.We can learn from the text that__________.

A. the writer feels he made the right choice in life

B. the writer now regrets the decision he made

C. the writer always wanted to work for an accounting firm

D. the write have to earn more money

Answer 1