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Darrius was born with three fingers on his right hand and one on his 【小题1】 hand. He had to work 【小题2】 to do things that were easy for others. Every time his classmates tried to help, he would say, “Thanks, but I can do it 【小题3】 (me).” He learned to use the four fingers to do different things. When Darrius was 10, he told his father that he liked piano music very much. “It’s too bad you can’t play,” his father said. But the boy took it as a 【小题4】. “I will show people that I can,” he said to himself.

Months later, a neighbour gave him an old piano 【小题5】 she moved away. He 【小题6】 (teach) himself to play the piano and practiced for hours a day. Darrius’s favourite piano music is River Flows in You by Yiruma, a Korean 【小题7】 (music). It took Darrius a year to learn it. “I have to come up with my own way 【小题8】 only 4 fingers,” he said. When he succeeded, he felt so 【小题9】 (pride). Later he was lucky enough to play the music together with Yiruma at a famous concert hall! Yiruma encouraged Darrius 【小题10】 (follow) his dream of playing his own music. Darrius has made it. And his music is popular today.

“I may have a disability,” he says, “but I don’t let it hold me back from anything.”