It was a beautiful sunny day when Martin went out into the backyard. It would have been a perfect day to play. But Martin wasn't out there to play.
His mother had sent him out there so that he could practice the flute(长笛). When she had bought him the expensive flute, he had promised to practice at least thirty minutes every day. But it can be difficult to concentrate or something as unexciting as a flute when your room is full of cool stuff like a TV, video games and the Internet. So Martin's mother sent him to the backyard to practice, where there would be no distractions(使人分心的事物).
Martin sat down on the grass and brought the flute to his lips. He began doing his fingering exercises with his eyes closed. You have to close your eyes when you want to concentrate on stuff. Anyway, he played for a good forty or fifty seconds before he heard a familiar sound: "Hey, Martin!"
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw the face of his friend, his next-door neighbor Kris, who was smiling at him from the fence which separated their yards.
"I just got a new movie!" he said. "Want to come over and check it out?"
Well, that was exactly what Martin wanted to do. He loved movies but he shook his head and said sorry. Kris seemed disappointed that Martin had said no. But he also understood that Martin had to practice a lot when he was learning a musical instrument. So he left and watched the film by himself.
Martin was alone with his flute. He closed his eyes and started his fingering exercises again. But he couldn't concentrate. His father was a scientist. Martin had been to his lab many times. He couldn't understand why his father could concentrate on his researches for so long a time. When he was thinking, his father came over.
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Paragraph 1: With a smile on his face, his father sat beside Martin, which made the young boy a little nervous.
Paragraph 2: Martin felt ashamed and then he nodded, saying he hoped to be a flute performer.
