For a long time Gabriel didn't want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, 1 across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, 2 at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to 3 music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

4 , one day, in the music class that was 5 of his school's standard curriculum, he was playing idly (随意地) on the piano and found it easy to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually 6 doing it. He tried to hide his 7 pleasure from the music teacher, who had wandered over to listen. He thought he have not done this particularly well, 8 the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good 9 and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there 10 him. There he decided to give the cello (大提琴) a 11 . When he began practicing, he took it very casually. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This 12 , of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, 13  his heavy instrument case across the campus to the 14  looks of the non-musicians he had left 15 .