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Shortly after dessert, as we were moving into the living room, I confided to Chris that I had a dream of one day sitting close to him and watching him play "^*Recuerdos de la Alhambra, a beautifully sensuous guitar piece that was one of my favorites from his recordings. "We'll do that sometime," Chris said in a chipper voice. Then it was time for fish videos.

When Chris was about to put on his coat to leave, Ken said, "Wait a minute, there's something I want you to see." He disappeared into the bedroom and returned with his old guitar from high school. It was dusty, and probably the last thing (   1   ) on it was "Michael, Row the Boat Ashere. But Chris took it from Ken as though he were being handed a stradivarius violin- He ran his hand over the dry wood of the face and then gently turned it over to inspect its back. The wood had a couple of small cracks. Chris rested the guitar on his knee and fingered the (   2   ) strings. He then leaned down to inspect the pitch as he tightened the strings. By this time, Ken had finished telling Chris about his teenage guitar playing days. Now we were wondering what our friend (   3   ).

Without a word-and (   4   ) me looking over his shoulder-Chris closed his eyes, nodded a few times as though he were reaching for something in his memory, and then launched into "Recuerdos dela Alhambra." I was (   5   ). Tears ^*welled in my eyes as our friend wove a melody that turned our living room (   6   ) a romantic Spanish ^*hideaway. The night suddenly seemed filled with mystery, with stars above and a heavy scent of evening jasmine in the air. I smiled and (   7   ).

(From Christopher Parkening, Grace Like a River, Tyndale House publishers, 2006)

注)
• Recuerdos do ta Alhambra:アルハンブラ宮殿の思い出(ギター曲)
• well:あふれ出る
• hideaway:隠れ家

• (   1   )
  • A. play
  • B. played
  • C. playing
  • D. to play
• (   2   )
  • A. broken
  • B. fossilized
  • C. new
  • D. other
• (   3   )
  • A. had played
  • B. was gojng through
  • C. was thinking
  • D. was up to
• (   4   )
  • A. beyond
  • B. by
  • C. upon
  • D. with
• (   5   )
  • A. breathless
  • B. breathtaking
  • C. out of breath
  • D. under my breath
• (   6   )
  • A. from
  • B. into
  • C. to
  • D. with
• (   7   )
  • A. fell asleep
  • B. laughed
  • C. shrugged
  • D. sniffed