Passage 32
学霸导读 重要的日子总是让人们心情紧张，期待与不安交杂。你有没有经历过如此跌宕起伏的一天呢？
My Big Day
There were about 15 kids there for audition （ 试镜 ） when we arrived. I had been u 1 about being late on this big day but the bus， which moved slowly all the way， woke up and almost galloped （ 疾驰 ） for the last half mile. Dad and I jumped off and ran to 171 High Street. I had e 2 a shiny building but what I saw was a broken ancient door. And the room into which we all crowded was dark and didn’t have enough chairs. A boy was p 3 his audition piece loudly， unaware of everyone else in the room. Most of the kids were in jeans， but a few dressed seriously cool as if they spent every day on f ilm sets and lunching with s 4 . I felt a bit embarrassed about my dressing.
A girl called us away, one by one, to be auditioned. I breathed deeply and slowly as I had learned to do—ever since my f irst part in the school play, when I was extremely nervous and n 5 forgot everything I had memorized. I repeated my speech to myself with all the pauses and emphases in the right places. I knew I was good. I really wanted this part, I wanted to pay Dad back for all the work he’d done for me. I wanted to make him proud of me. And I know I could do it.
Suddenly, it was my n 6 there! I followed the girl down a corridor into a large room with three men and a woman sitting.
“How tall are you?” he asked.
“I’m 1.6 meters,” I said, trembling slightly.
The man looked at the woman and I saw him s 7 his head.
The woman turned to me and said, “I’m so sorry. That’s just a bit too tall for this part. They should have told you.”
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高频词汇
corridor /'kɒrɪdɔː（r）/ n. 走廊，通道 slightly /'slaɪtli/ adv. 略微，稍微