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英语周报第四期 A In 1995,Sunsan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition(试演) for , a televised talent show popular in the UK. She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn’t perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of her plain looks. Boyle was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub. Boyle suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Boyle put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother Bridget Susan’s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competition. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain’s Got Talent. We used to watch it together,” Susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.” In 1999,Boyle used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo（样本唱片）tape, which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Boyle began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O’Neil. In 2007,Boyle’s mother passed away at the age of 91.A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three of four days or answer the door or phone”. She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O’Neil urged her to try out for Britain’s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream, a hit song from the musical Les Miserables（《悲惨世界》），in the first round of the show, which was aired on 11 April 2009. The 47-year-old Scottish woman’s plain looks provided a sharp contrast（对比）to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies. 26. Bridget Boyle’s attitude toward her daughter’s mus