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[jasonlulu_2000]

After improvising for a while, I started playing, still in the darkness．I heard the music through my skin．For the first time I didn't think about how it would sound to anyone else, and slowly, joyfully, gratefully, I started to hear again．The notes sang out, first like a trickle:, then like a fountain of cool water bubbling up from a hole in the middle of a desert．After an hour or so I looked up, and in the darkness saw the outline of the cat sitting on the floor in front of me, cleaning her paws and purring loudly, I had an audience again, humble as it was．
In this paragraph, the writer intends to ______．
A．explain his feelings of playing before a cat
B．identify specific pieces of music he played
C．express his feelings of playing against his body
D．describe the sound when he played against his body

The answer given is C.

But I think D is more suitable. Am I right?

Jason

[redset]

I think C and D are both correct (and D was my first choice). He expresses his feelings of playing (joyful, grateful, hearing it through his skin, not worrying how it would sound to others), but also the sound (notes singing out, trickling out then bursting forth like a fountain of cool water) - and he specifically says he "started to hear again" before the descriptions of the sound, so we know he's talking about what he's hearing and not just his feelings about playing.