The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film. It’s     18     warm and wonderful movie that has “timeless” effect. The film     19     (base) on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The film is about a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent (女修道院)     20     (become) a teacher of the seven children of a captain. Maria is a sweet young woman     21     love of freedom makes it obvious to her superiors (上司)     22     she is not suited for religious life. Thus, she is sent off to be the teacher to Captain Georg Von Trapp’s seven troublesome children.     23     (arrive) at his home, Maria discovers that Captain Georg Von Trapp keeps it     24     strict order, uses a whistle to arrange his children, issues orders, and dresses his children in sailor-suit uniforms. Although at first the seven children are not     25     (friend) to her, Maria becomes friends with the children due to their love of music. She     26     (teach) them how to sing and allows them to play.

Soon, even the strict Captain begins to admire Maria. At last, the Captain and Maria fall in love and get married.     27     (fortune), when the Nazis invade their homeland, Austria, the whole family is forced to flee over the Alps (阿尔卑斯山) to escape.