1 . What is music? Music is sound arranged into pleasing or interesting ________. It is part of every culture on Earth. People use music to ________ feelings and ideas. Music also serves to entertain and relax.

Music is a performing art. It ________ form such arts as painting and poetry, in which arts ________ works and then display or publish them. Musical composers need musicians to ________ and perform their works. ________ most musical performances are really co-operations between composers and performers.

Music also plays a major role in other arts. Opera ________ singing and music with drama. Ballet and other forms of dancing need music to help the dancers ________ their steps. Motion pictures use music to help set the mood as well as introduce the actions or enhance its ________ on the audience. Music is one of the ________ arts. People probably started to sing to as soon as ________ developed. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical ________. By about 10,000 B.C , hollow bones had been used by ________ people to make flutes. The first written music dates from about 2500 B.C.

There are two chief kinds of western music, classical and popular. Symphonies, operas, and ballet are ________ music. It is generally harder to write and perform. Musicians who perform it need a lot of training. Popular music ________ country music, folk music, jazz, and rock music. It is easier to perform and understand.

2 . One morning, on my way home, it was raining very heavily. Nearing my town, I watched as the water level on the road _______ in front of me. I had nowhere to go.

The driver of a four­wheel drive signaled from his car to tell me not to cross the _______ road. Then I noticed a man in his early 30s in his front yard _______ the situation. He quickly waved to me to come and _______ in his driveway away from the rushing water.

The man called Trent then invited me to wait _______ the rain inside his house. I told him I was concerned about the _______ to my car, as the continuing rain started to _______ into hail(冰雹). Trent then took a cover from his garage and _______ my car to protect it from the hail._______, his efforts were not in vain.

While waiting for the ________ to improve, I learned Trent had ________ his job ten months ago and was trying his hand as a local handyman(做零活的人)to make ends meet.

By 12：30 p.m. the rain ________ and it would be safe enough to ________ the road. As I left, I insisted on ________ his business card, and my father has since called Trent to offer him ________ as a handyman at our place doing various small jobs.

3 . On sunny and warm days, I love to wander through high mountains. I also love it when fog goes down and _______ me in a state of quietness.

One day while I was visiting a mountaintop, the fog blew in. I was _______ because I’d gone there to take some photos and needed a clear shot of the mountains in the _______. Instead I was _______ the middle of a gray cloud. I carried my camera and made my _______ back to the car to wait, hoping the fog would _______.

As I sat there, I began to see things that I’d never _______ before. I spied an old tree with rough branches of interesting _______. I observed the cliffs behind me. All this new­to­me scenery _______ me back out of the car, and soon I was happily ________ a part of this landscape I’d never seen before.

As I ________ home, with a camera full of images and a heart full of ________ for the nature, I thought about what had happened.

The nature has used those times when everything around me seemed like ________ to show me things I wouldn’t have seen ________. I experienced that especially when my son was in the military. Often the weight of what he was facing covered me with ________. It was in those times that nature revealed itself most warmly.

4 . A week before Halloween, I piled my kids in the car, driving to my _________. On the drive, I thought about how life should be _________. I was a mother of three daughters—twin five-year-olds and a one-year-old. I should be playing in the park with them or _________ the library. But there I was, once again, going to see the _________.

It had been a year since I was diagnosed with cancer. I knew that I was one of the _________ ones. I was grateful that surgery was over, and this was just a _________ blood test. My family and friends had been _________ during the past year, but they were also _________ with their lives.

When we finally _________, we sat in a crowded waiting room. It was pretty quiet until my youngest daughter, dressed up like an angel, walked up to a __________ and said, “Tweet.” This was how she said “Trick or Treat”, having been coached __________ by her twin sisters. The woman, who was in a wheelchair and __________ by her caregiver, knew __________what my daughter meant. She came to the vending machine (自动售货机). She __________ enough money to give each of my girls a treat.

It was a lesson for me about how good, kind and generous people are. The thankfulness didn’t __________.

5 . Albert Einstein is said to have been asked by a student, “What finding helped you most when you were _____ the theory of relativity?” Einstein replied without _____ moment’s hesitation. “Finding how to think about the problem.”

The same _____ is told about Sir Isaac Newton and _____ other scientists. We have no proof _____ any of these well-known conversations _____ took place, but we are prepared to believe that they did, and, if so, that the _____ was the same one Einstein gave,_____ this is the “way scientists work and science progresses.”

Scientists usually work towards models of the process of structure they are studying._____ we have models of the structure of the universe and of the atom, models of the process ______ which the genetic (遗传学的) pattern is passed from one building block of life to ______ models of the economic system and ______ on. Some models are mathematical, but a model does not have to have equations (方程式) or even diagrams; the ______ requirement is no doubt that it ______ an insight into the relationships that determine ______ something works as it does or how it is put together.

6 . Everyone has a wish to travel.But those who cannot do so themselves might find it _________ to work in a travel agency(旅行社),_________ journeys for other people.Brian Lawley does this,working in a small travel agency in an industrial city.Most of his work is concerned with holidays,both at home and abroad.Every autumn the agency _________ hundreds of booklets(小册子) full of attractive,coloured photographs,_________ the holidays that the customers will be able to have the next year.Soon,people begin to come into the office to _________ their holidays:perhaps a week’s skiing in Australia in January,perhaps a seaside holiday in Spain in May,or a tour of North Africa.Brian often has to _________ people on what holidays will be _________ for them.And people always have a lot of questions.Last year,for example,a lady of eighty-two wanted to book a mountaineering holiday in the Alps,and Brian had great difficulty in _________ her that it would not be suitable.In the end,she decided to go for a Mediterranean cruise(游览) _________. 

Arranging journeys for people who have to travel ____________ on business is often very complicated,but Brian ____________ his work.For example,last spring,Mr Perry,director of a local chemical firm,____________ a business trip,and Brian arranged it all for him.First,Mr Perry travelled to London by train,and stayed overnight in a hotel near the airport,because his plane ____________ early the next morning.He flew to Frankfurt,where he ____________ the morning discussing business.Then he went on by train to Zurich,and spent three days there ____________ going on to America.He had business in Seattle,Chicago and New York,and then went home by train.The next day he telephoned the agency to thank Brian for arranging everything so well for him.

7 . It was the first day I was able to get out of bed since getting my heart shattered (难过的). I decided to have a ________ , trying to start feeling human again.

When my hairdresser asked how I had been, I wanted to say “fine” because that’s what you’re ________ to do when you make small talk. ________ I even realized what was happening, tears started rolling down my cheeks.

________ missing a beat, this woman who ________ knew me gathered me in her arms and ________ me as I cried.

She said, “I can feel all your pain and it’s ________ .”

I had been feeling so ________ sad and hopeless for days. When people we open our hearts and souls to ________ us, we lose faith.

I was ________ that I couldn’t hold myself together for a simple haircut. I felt like my tears were admitting my ________ . I had lost a friend, and lost a home.

But this stranger took care of me in a way that I ________ . I opened up to someone I hardly knew, and just let all my hurt pour out into her arms, and she did the same. We ________ together.

In just that moment, my ________ closed just a bit more, and it reminded that there were truly ________ people in this world. I began to understand that I was not alone.

8 . Not all heroes wear capes(斗篷). Some wear hiking boots. The temperature was _________ to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the hills of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area, when Lexie and her friends _________ a heroic act of kindness.

Lexie and her fellow hikers met a man whose dog was _________ overheated. Even though they _________ their water, the group was _________ that it wouldn’t be enough, after seeing how much the dog was already _________ . Too tired to carry the dog himself, the _________ owner called the park rangers(公园管理员)quickly, and reported their _________ on Mount Tammany.

The park ranger Kris Salapek soon _________ them on the trail(小路). Kris then lifted the huge dog onto his shoulders and began __________ him down the mountain. After a long walk. they finally arrived where the medical team waited for them.

“He is a hero,” Lexie wrote on Facebook. “This ranger __________ recognition for his bravery, selflessness and strength.” Lexie __________ her post by saying the ranger had been in __________ with the owner of the pup who, the next day, said “the patient” was __________ , making a full recovery. “Owing to this ranger and other officers like him, we can feel much __________ for our loved ones even our pups,” Lexie added.

9 . Fletcher was a freshman enjoying his college life at Lambuth University when, suddenly, everything changed. On September 10, 2009, he _________ a serious car accident caused by a(n) _________ driver who was texting while driving. This _________ left him paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the chest down, and he would be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

However, it didn’t stop him from _________ life to the full. Since his recovery, he has traveled to many U. S. destinations and even abroad. He created a new YouTube channel to follow his _________.

As a way to inspire even more people, Fletcher’s new YouTube channel will serve as a means to _________ others on how traveling in a _________ really is. “My channel will _________ my everyday life of being paralyzed as well as how I fly and get around when I travel,” Fletcher said. The most _________ thing is for people to see that traveling can be done even with __________. He’ll highlight the details of how he chooses hotels and places that are __________ to those in similar situations. “It’s exciting because when I was on these trips, people would __________ me and tell me what a(n) __________ I am to them,” Fletcher said.

“Just because you’ve been dealt a bad hand doesn’t mean you lose your __________,” Fletcher explained. “I’m just having __________ and enjoying life.” As he wrote in his book, “Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way.”

10 . Yesterday after a full day of in-person teaching, I was ready to drive home when a young woman said: “Your back tire is flat!”

I used the tire gauge (胎压计) that my dad had sent me a while ago to ________ all the tires and indeed one was completely ________ . Fortunately, we have AAA (汽车协会) and I called the number so they could change the tire and put on my ________ tire. The car was in a place where it would have been very ________ for me to do this, but they did it quickly.

I had to wait for a while for them to show up, but I didn’t ________ at all because I could just use that time to meditate (沉思), breathe, and pause. I also had packed a little container of apple slices and carrot sticks so I was not feeling “ ________ ”. It gave me time to stare at the ________ and just sit quietly. ________ , I was looking forward to a virtual meditation circle that evening and ________ that my meditation sit would just have to be in the ________ instead of at home—got a good 25-minute “sit”!

Afterwards, I had to drive at 50 mph on the highway while cars were ________ by me at 80+ mph. I was in the“ ________ lane” and enjoying every mile of the 40-minute to drive ________ . I felt that the flat tire had given me that ________ to breathe and let the gratitude I felt ________.