Music is important in our life. Do you like     1     lessons? A study shows music lessons can make children have     2     memories (记忆) than others. The study shows that after one year of training in music, children could     3     better grades in a memory test than others.

There     4     two groups of children aged between four and six in the study. One group of children took music lessons outside school, and the other     5     didn’t take any lessons. In one year, they took four tests at different times. The results showed that     6     children taking music lessons not only     7     better in music listening but also made much progress in other subjects, such as English and math.

People say music is the medicine     8     a sad heart. Now it shows music can also help     9     with our memories. We are sure     10     find more in the wonderful world of music.

【推荐3】Do you know the Chinese     1     (music) Lang Lang? He     2     (start) playing the piano when he was three and became a famous pianist. Playing the piano could start as     3     interesting hobby (爱好). It could be the activity which gives you much fun. It could also be a job.

Many people think it’s an expensive hobby.     4     if you have a piano, it can be a cheap one. All you really need is time to play. Some people want a teacher     5     (teach) them in the beginning. But if you have a “musical ear”, you could learn to play music by listening carefully     6     the music. Then you need to learn how to read music notes. This would help you play songs     7     (easy). But you need a lot of     8     (practice).

Are you good at     9     (write) your own songs? Then it’s a good idea to play a song you love. You can enjoy the hobby alone, you can also enjoy it     10     other people. So you see, piano music can bring people together, too.

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many , many centuries . In fact , an English dictionary you u    1     today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝) . Three men did most of the important e    2     work on dictionaries . They spent nearly all their lives trying to c    3     words for their dictionaries . For them , it was a wonderful journey . The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English dictionary . The i    4     for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857 . Twenty-two years later , Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary .

Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen , he l    5     his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank . L    6     he became a great teacher . After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b    7     in his garden to do the work . Every morning , Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and w    8     in the small house several hours before breakfast . Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years , he was s    9     adding words for the letter “A” ! He worked on the dictionary u    10     he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

J.K.Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, one of the best-sellers in the world. J.K.Rowling was bin Bristol (英国一港口城市) on July 31st，1965. She has one sister. Both girls loved l to their father reading bedtime stories to them. They especially loved sabout magical worlds．Rowling wrote her first story, called Rabbit, at the age of six. A she finished her study from the university, Rowling worked aa translator(翻译) in London．During this time, on a long train trip in the summer of 1990, she decided to wabout a boy who has magic bdoesn’t know it. In l992 Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her baby daughter, Jessica, and spent much tfinishing the first Harry Potter book for young readers. It was completed in June l997. To her surprise, the bwas greatly successful. The film came out in November 2001. Now Harry Potter series (系列丛书) is pwith people of all ages and about 60 million books were sold in 200 countries．