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I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for a man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯) near the river. He always looked upriver towards the mountain and he always looked so happy. I couldn't hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined (想像) it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.
One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue（雕塑）. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. In his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play, My family walked on up the river but I stayed there by the statue, dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn't make a sound. I blew (吹) and blew but I couldn't get it to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound-loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again and again. But I wasn't playing music yet.
Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I'm in the TV studio with my saxophone strap(用带子系) to my neck and my cap on my head. I'm waiting to be called to the stage to play my first ever saxophone solo (独奏) on TV. I'm thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeji. I'm a happy man.
21. The writer couldn't hear the music because _______.
A. he was deaf B. the old man was far away
C. the windows of the bus were not open D. the old man made no sound
22. The statue along the river made the writer think of _______.
A. the old man along the river
B. having a saxophone
C. having the same cap and saxophone as the boy
D. learning to play the saxophone and playing on TV
23. The underlined word "magic" shows the writer _______.
A. was very excited B. was very surprised
C. learnt to play music easily D. didn't know how to play music
24. What does the writer want to tell us?
A. How he learnt to play the saxophone.
B. The old man who played the saxophone in Kobe in Japan had a great effect on him.
C. The statue smiling at him in Himeji made the writer interested in playing the saxophone.
D. You'll be happy if you live with a dream.
