Music is everywhere nowadays. Music plays     1     important part in daily life and there are different     2     (type) of music in the world, such as Blues, Black music, Rock&Roll, Dance music of Punks, Disco, Jazz, Classical music, Rap, Pop-music and so on.

Music is useful in many fields. It     3     (use) in advertising, radios, TV, films and the supermarkets     4     people are always attracted by the sweet-sounding music. So, you can see that the companies take advantage     5     music to make more money.

Why do so many people enjoy music? In my opinion,     6     (usual) we prefer expressing through music, so we can share many feelings with other people. Music is one of the most     7     (wonder) things in our life. When we are tired after work or when we are nervous, listening to music makes us feel more     8     (relax) and better. Listening to music     9     (help) us face the difficulties we meet in     10     (we) life and makes us forget some problems. Besides, we can learn more about the cultures of different countries and then learn about the world better.

Have you ever imagined singing together with hundreds of people while at home alone? It can be realized     1     (easy) by a virtual choir. Anyone with a video camera and     2     Internet connection can take part in a video choir from anywhere. A virtual choir helps connect ordinary people together and     3     (enable) them to add their voices to those of other individuals.

Award-winning     4     (compose) and conductor Eric Whitacre came up with the idea of a virtual choir. Whitacre began studying music in 1988 and got a master’s degree     5     musical composition in 1997. Over the next ten years, Whitacre’s     6     (origin) compositions became popular among choirs and singers. In 2009,     7     (inspire) by a video from a girl singing one of his works, he created his first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”,     8     received millions of views on the Internet. The virtual choir     9     (become) a worldwide phenomenon since then.

The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people to sing with one voice,     10     (make) the world a better place.

    1    （build） to honour the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, the memorial stone in white marble at the back of King’s College is now an attraction.    2    （move） to the UK in 1921, Zhimo spent a year studying at King’s,    3    （attract） by the romantic poetry of English poets like John Keats as well as Cambridge itself.

His poem, Second Farewell to Cambridge,    4    （consider） to be his most famous one, is now a compulsory text on Chinese literature,     5    （learn） by millions of school children across our country every year. The poem vividly paints a portrait of King’s and the River Cam,    6    （serve） as a reminder of Xu Zhimo’s fondness for his time in Cambridge.

While the poem had been set to music many times before, the English composer John Rutter, one of the mainstream classical musicians ,    7    （invite ） by King's College    8    （make） the first musical setting of the text. The new piece ,    9    （write ）and    10    （record） in celebration of the near 100-year link between King's College and Xu Zhimo, has been released on a new album on the King s College Record Label.

Lifting a spear, Li Jinqi pulled it across her shoulders and spun (旋转) it     1     (quick). Following her example     2     (be) ten peers in two rows (排) who wore the same Kungfu — style garments (服装) and produced the same movements.

Li is a 24-year-old Ph.D. Student at Bei hang University in Beijing,     3     she is more widely known on campus as a martial arts master and led the university’s martial arts club. Despite being busy with research and coursework (课程作业), the Ph.D. student said     4     (practise) martial arts has become a daily routine for herself over the past five years. She has studied various styles, boxing and swordplay (击剑)     5     (include), and won several cross — campus martial arts competitions held in the capital city

Gao Xiaoya, majoring in electronic information engineering at Beihang, who also joined the martial arts club,     6     (share) that she draws inner peace and strength from the sport. Gao is     7     the many young people who were first attracted to martial arts as a way to keep fit, but who found that their     8     (enthusiastic) grew as they practiced more.

“The rapid growth of the Internet and social media also facilitates communication about traditional Chinese culture, enabling young people to have     9     (easy) access to rare art forms,” said Song Yu,     10     assistant researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.