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At the age of ten, my parents thought that I should learn to play an instrument. They chose guitar lessons for me.  I had no interest in playing it.  All that I wanted to do was to improve my soccer skills. However, my parents believed that playing soccer was a waste of my valuable time. They thought I should use the time to focus on school and develop my brain by taking on a difficult task, such as learning to play music.

However, since the first day of the lessons, I disliked the guitar. While learning to play the guitar, I just wanted to play soccer as much as I could. But what could a ten­year­old do when his parents said they would punish him if he didn't do what they told him to do? Even though I loathed the guitar lessons with all my heart, I went to the instructor week after week. And week after week, I would come back and be tired of the lessons and of the amount of practice required.

After wasting a year of my life learning how to play the guitar, I still had not made much progress. My parents began to realize that I was not born to play the guitar and that I was not having fun trying to learn, either. They finally understood how much I wanted to play soccer. So after one bad year, my parents called the music instructor and told him I would no longer take guitar lessons.

I was very happy. Now I play soccer every day and I play it very well. I do think parents should let their children do what they're good at and what they truly love.

1£®The writer took guitar lessons because ________£®

A£®he was afraid of being punished

B£®he wanted to learn an instrument

C£®he had too much free time to kill

D£®he thought he would love playing the guitar

2£®What does the underlined word “loathed” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A£®Forgot.    B£®Disliked.

C£®Learned.    D£®Improved.

3£®The writer's parents called the writer's instructor to ________£®

A£®tell him that they were really sorry

B£®ask about the writer's performance in class

C£®tell him the writer had given up the lessons

D£®ask him to spend more time teaching the writer

4£®At the end of the passage, the writer shows that ________£®

A£®playing sports is more important than playing an instrument

B£®we will finally fall in love with something we hate at first

C£®parents should let their children do what they really love

D£®children should know what they're really good at