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Over the (1) years, I have been asked hundreds of (b) times how my career was influenced by my parents. I (1) __________ up in a musical family. My father is a conductor, and as a (2) __________ my parents are very enthusiastic (3) __________ music. |
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Music has been (4) __________ of my life since I was born. It is as (5) __________ as brushing my teeth and washing my (6) __________. |
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My sisters and I were (7) __________ the first batch of students chosen for the Hog Kong Children's Choir when my parents started (8) __________ in 1969. (9) __________, singing became our weekend family activity. |
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During the 1960s and 70s, there were not (10) __________ many chances to go to classical music concerts. But (11) __________, we were frequent concert-goers. I have lost (12) __________ of how many times we visited City Hall. |
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I first went there when I was (13) __________ two years old, to present (14) __________. I started going to listen to music when I was just over four or five. Sometimes, today, when I (15) __________ across long serving members of staff, they say that they can remember me growing
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I think my parents wanted to give us an all-round (17) __________. They wanted us to know more than (18) __________ singing, playing the piano and the (19) __________ curriculum that we were taught (20) __________ school. |
