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  3. Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a

Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a

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问题     Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a great deal of hard work and he always found it hard to satisfy himself.
    When he was 28, he began to notice a strange noise in his ears. As it grew worse, he went to see doctors, and was told that he was going deaf. This was too much for any【B1】______ to bear. Beethoven was in【B2】______ ; he was sure that he was going to die. He went to the countryside where he wrote a long【B3】______ letter to his brothers,【B4】______ how sad and lonely his deafness made him. He【B5】______ to die, and said to death, "Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely."
    In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He  【B6】______ his courage and went on writing music, though he could hear what he wrote more and more  【B7】______ . He wrote the music for which we remember him best after he became deaf. This music was very different from any that had been composed before. Instead of the【B8】______ and grand music that earlier composers had written for their wealthy listeners,【B9】______ . His Heroic Symphony and Fifth Symphony both show his courage in struggling with his fate.
   【B10】______ . He was lonely and often unhappy, but in spite of this, he often wrote joyful music, such as his last symphony, the Ninth.【B11】______ .
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答案despair
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