完形填空。                                                          Nicola"s Love for Her Violin
    Can love between partners with a 237-year age gap (差距) lead to the perfect match (绝配)? Nicola
Benedetti thinks so.The 18-year-old    1   and her partner, a 255-year-old Italian violin,    2   to China for
the first time last weekend.She   3   in Beijing on September 15 and also performed in Hangzhou and
Shanghai.
    Nicola is from Scotland and    4   playing the violin when she was four years old.   5  , it was not
something her parents    6   her do.She went with her sister to violin lessons and   7  it and improved very
quickly.
     "There are so many different things I am fond of about the     8  ," she said."I can"t really    9   it but I love
giving live performances, I like the feeling of playing and communicating with the    10  .I love the feeling of
the violin under my chin (下巴)."
    However, playing violin six hours a day is not a/an    11   job."I usually    12   in an upstairs bedroom
when I"m at home." she said."But sometimes, when it"s    13   outside, it can be upset.The house is right on
the    14   and I can see others having fun    15   I"m on my own."
    Although practising is sometimes lonely, Nicola    16   felt she was lucky."You can"t have     17 . I am
really lucky to do what I love doing," she said.Her    18   paid off (终有回报).Nicola won BBC Young
Musician of the Year in 2004 at 16.
       19   her performing and recording activities, Nicola is a/an    20  of UNICEF (联合国儿童基金会).
She said that she would travel to Lesotho in southern Africa at the end of this year to help poor kids there.

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