3. Ask Steveland Morris and he’ll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling(残疾的). Steveland was born prematurely(早产) and totally without sight in 1950. He became Steve Wonder --- composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy Awards(格莱美奖), Steve is widely acclaimed for his outstanding contributions to the music world.
As a child, Steve learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join his sighted brothers in as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the visually disabled are so dependent.
Because sound was so important to him, Steve began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate(模仿) the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums(鼓), played a toy harmonica(口琴), and listened to the radio.
Steve soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Steve would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues (布鲁斯音乐)tunes on the front porches of neighbors’ homes.
One of Steve’s sessions was overheard by Ronnie white, a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Steve’s talent(才华) and took him to audition (试演) for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Steve recorded his first smash hit(极为轰动的) “fingertips” in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Steve’s story is music history.
1). This passage can be entitled (取名为)______ .
A. The Music World
B. Steve Wonder
C. Great Musicians
D. Blind People
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