Question 21 is based on the passage you have just heard.

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    My name is Brandon Leonard, and I’m an author, magazine writer, filmmaker and public speaker. (19) I’m self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love. We have a popular saying in America which goes, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” (20) But I’m here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.

    In my line of work, you’ll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy. Here’s why: if you see someone doing something really well, you would say it’s because they are talented. You think they are somehow special. You discount the tremendous amount of work they’ve done to get to where they are.

    (21) Research has shown that talent is nothing without hard work. I choose to believe in hard work, but not so much in talent. There are no special people, just people who put in enough hard work until something special happens. I can promise you one thing: whatever you choose to do for a career, if you work hard at it, eventually special things will happen. They may not happen as quickly as you’d like them to, and they may turn out to be completely different from the special things you imagined at the beginning, but they will happen.

21. What does the speaker say about talent?

解析：A。根据录音可知，研究表明，如果不努力，天分什么也不是。讲话者选择相信努力而不是天分，A项符合文意。录音中指出，世上没有特别的人，只有那些付出足够努力，使特殊的事发生的人，并不是说只有特殊的事发生才会有天分，所以排除D项。B、C项均未提及，故排除。