When 35-year-old Chinese pianist WangYujia finished her last note on Tuesday, she received a standing applause from the audience. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, commonly     1     (know)as Yannick, the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, even went down on his knees after watching her four-hour     2     (perform)at the Carnegie Music Hall.

She was considered as a superstar for her once-in-a-lifetime show. Yannick even compared the level of her excellence to     3     (climb)Mount Qomolangma. Despite the difficulty, however, it seemed she managed     4     (play)all the musical pieces with ease right to the last movement. Yannick noted that Wang was     5     ideal pianist because of her forceful and relaxed style. And he said that she was born for this kind of music. Wang showed a special interest     6     Rachmaninoff’s music when she was young. She began to play the piano when she was 6. At the age of 14, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in the US and began to study it     7     (carefully)than before. She     8     (attract)by this Russian composer’s noble and pure music deeply at that time.

After graduation, she became one of the world’s most famous     9     (star)in classical music. Wang’s success also shows that her parents’ years of efforts have paid off,     10     will be very encouraging for other parents in China.

Each time a medal was presented to a winner at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the award music was played. The music was written by Tan Dun,    1    is a world-famous composer.

Born in 1958 in central Hunan, China, Tan     2    (grow) up near the Liuyang River.When he was very young, he showed a great interest     3    music. He loves the     4    (sound) of the rushing water and blowing wind because, to him, the best music comes from nature. His amazing piece of music Water does not use any musical instruments. Instead, Tan makes over 50 sounds from water by     5    (control) the speed of water flow(流动).

Tan has helped build     6    bridge between the East and the West. He has     7    (successful) brought the Chinese and Western music together.    8     (make) the music for the Beijing Olympics special, Tan used     9    (tradition) Chinese music and the sounds of an ancient Chinese bell but in a Western style.

In     10    (he) works, the past and the present, common objects and musical instruments, traditional Chinese music and modern Western music all mix together to make anew type—music without boundaries.

The creative concept of jinhuidui (literally “a pile of beautiful things from ash”), a Chinese art form which is said     1     (start) in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and boomed in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), shares similarities     2     pop art.

    3     (create) traditional jinhuidui artwork is much more difficult compared to pop art, as all the images are painted as if they were copied and pasted (粘贴). It requires     4     good command of calligraphy as well as excellent skill in painting flowers, birds, fish, insects, landscapes and     5     (figure), and a mastery of techniques such as seal carving.

Geng Xuezhi, 50, from Zibo city, Shandong Province, is one of the masters of jinhuidui. Geng has been learning Chinese painting and calligraphy     6     he was 16. He came into contact with jinhuidui painting skills through his father in 2006.

The artist says the distinctive feature of jinhuidui can be summed up as “broken”,     7     means that it has to present fragments in forms such as broken, rolled, overlapped,     8     (tear), burned or smoked. He adds it will take at least 10 years to master the skill.

The creation of jinhuidui is complex and lengthy, and     9     (it) dyeing process is laborious (费力的) and time-consuming. Sometimes a fragment needs to be dyed a dozen times. “A simpler work of jinhuidui takes about 20 days to complete, while a     10     (hard) one will take several months, and sometimes some extra effort has to be made,” Geng says.

Chopin was born on March 1st, 1810. He is a Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period, best     1    (know) for his pieces for piano. Although he wrote brief works, Chopin ranks as one of music’s greatest tone poets by reason of his superb imagination.

All Chopin’s family had artistic leanings, and even at an early age, Chopin was always strangely moved when listening to his mother or eldest sister playing the piano. By age six he was already trying to reproduce     2     he heard or to make up new tunes.     3     following year he started piano lessons with the 61-year-old Wojciech Zywny, an all-around     4    (music) with an intelligent sense of values. Zywny’s simple instruction in piano playing     5    (leave) behind soon by his pupil,     6     discovered for himself an original approach to the piano. Later, Chopin was allowed to develop     7    (smooth) by academic rules and formal training. Chopin found himself     8    (invite) at an early age to play at private parties, and at eight he made his first public appearance at a charity concert.

Piano playing was not alone responsible for his growing reputation as a child genius. At seven he also wrote a Polonaise in G Minor, which was printed. Chopin had a great gift     9     music and grew up with his efforts,     10    (become) a world-famous musician finally.

Latin American music is one of the most popular music in the world. Sometimes it     1    (call) Latin music, which includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties. Some critics have defined Latin music as a    2     (combine) of four elements: music style, geography, cultural background of artist and language, the first of which contains all music styles generated from Latin countries, such as salsa, merengue, bachata as well as others     3       (gain)   from more mainstream styles, such as Latin pop, rock, jazz and hip- hop. Latin music     4     (influence)   American popular music, jazz, rhythm and blues and even country music for long.

The Argentine tango was     5    worldwide success in the 1930's,     6     it was common in dance halls for a Latin orchestra to alternate with a big band. Latin music was    7       (extreme） popular with dancers.

    8     (start)   in the mid-1980's, Billboard introduced the Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Tracks charts for Latin music albums and singles. During the next decade, Latini music gained interest into the mainstream. Ricky Martin’ s performance of Spanglish (含有西班牙语及英文的) version The Cup of Life at the 41st Grammy Awards in 1999 was     9    made him well-known and earned him much press attention. Today most mainstream artists and producers tend to feature more on songs     10    Latin artists.

Rowan Atkinson is an English comedian and writer, who is famous around the world for his character Mr. Bean. He     1       (list) in the top 50 funniest people ever by a group of comedians and shot to fame in Britain in the late 1970s. In the early 1990s, his     2       (perform) in Mr. Bean brought him worldwide fame.

    3       (bear) in the north of England in 1955, he went to very good schools and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.     4     he studied for a Master’s degree at Oxford University, he fell in love     5     acting and comedy and joined an amateur theatre company. After university, Atkinson got a lucky break and made a comedy show for a British TV company. He quickly set out     6     (appear) in the hit comedy show Not the Nine O’clock News, which made him one of Britain’s     7       (popular) comedians ever. From 1983, he starred in the successful Black Adder series,     8     he also co-wrote.

Mr. Bean came along on New Year’s Day, 1990. It was     9     (original) just a one-off show. The character was a hit and Atkinson made more throughout the 1990s. It was eventually made into a movie which made Atkinson an international star. His visual comedy style     10     (earn) him the nickname “the man with the face” since then.