【推荐2】David is a 15-year-old boy and he is crazy about (对……着迷) space. He always ________ how space stations work. For him, a space camp is ________ than any other camp in the world.

At the age of seven, David had ________ first astronaut (宇航员) training experience. Someone ________ his parents and him to a Family Space Camp. They had a taste of what it was like to travel in ________. Everything was magical. How ________ David was!

David has been to many space camps over the last eight years. Last month, he went to a new space camp. It had a lot of fun training programs, and he ________ all of them. There someone asked him ________ he liked space camps so much. “I feel like a real astronaut in the space camp, and I don’t even need to leave the earth,” he said.

These ________ have influenced (影响) his life. Now David is ________ space science. He has made up his mind to be a space engineer in the future.

【推荐1】Coldplay is one of the most popular bands in England. On April 3, during Coldplay’s Mexico tour, a special guest went on stage to _______ a song with the band.

His name is Huillo, a 12-year-old boy with autism(自闭症). Huillo has a deep love for _______, and Coldplay is his favorite band. He often follows Coldplay’s music videos and _______ some instruments at home.

In 2016, Huillo became _______ after his father put a video online. In the video, the little boy was moved to tears during a Coldplay concert. The _______ melted(融化) the hearts of millions of people, and even the members of Coldplay themselves were deeply _______. “This kind of thing makes it all worthwhile,” they said.

This April, Huillo met Coldplay again, this time in person in Mexico City, during the band’s second _______ in the country. They gave Huillo a big surprise. They not only invited Huillo to attend the show, but also performed with him. On stage, Huillo played the piano and sang the song Different Is OK by himself _______. It’s Huillo’s first piece of music, which is to encourage people to accept their differences. Many fans cheered his _______ performance.

For Huillo, music is the most important therapy(疗法) and has great power. It helps him a lot. Now, he ________ more and communicates much better with others around him. Huillo’s parents wrote on his personal website, “For us, everything started that day at the Coldplay’s concert.”

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Country western music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. Country western music is a mixture of music from all of these places.

In the west of America, cowboys had to _______ the cattle（牛）. They had to watch them all day and all night _______ the cattle sometimes ran away. A cowboy’s life was lonely and dangerous. When he was in the desert with cattle, he drank strong coffee to stay _______. He also sang songs to calm them. He sang about the stars and the moon, about his family and his friends. The cattle listened to the cowboy and went to sleep.

In the south of America, many people came from Ireland, Scotland, and England. They played their own kind of music. They also brought instruments _______ their homes. They used guitars, violins, and harmonicas（口琴）, too. When they visited their friends and families, they usually sang together.

Country western music describes _______. It talks about love, jobs, home, and money. It talks about friends and enemies, trucks and highways, farms and _______. People in many parts of the world like country music because everyone knows something about these ideas. Many country western music fans wear western clothes and dance together. Many bands all over the world now perform country western music.

How important is music? When they _________ this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very _________. It is often only considered to be entertainment, but not the first _________ for education. This opinion is wrong. _________, music education is necessary for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Music _________ the musicians’ thoughts and ideas, and the social environment they came from. For example, just as Mozart’s music represents (代表) a lifestyle, rock music _________ represents a lifestyle. George Gershwin’s music is another example. He introduced jazz style into his music.

Music _________ a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores (探索) emotional (情绪的) meanings. People need every _________ way to learn about our world.

Music shows people’s thoughts. We can “talk” to each other _________ this amazing way. Through the language we express our feelings, discoveries, ideas and hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take them away from the meanings that music expresses. __________ music education is much more necessary than people usually think.