2 . “Music is where everything started,” Samira Horton says.     1     She has been rapping and performing since she was 6 years old. Through music, DJ Annie Red says, “I can express myself and let out my emotion.”

The rising hip-hop star uses music to share a message about bullying. “I was bullied a lot,” she says, “even today, especially because of my voice.” DJ Annie Red has a deep voice.     2     But DJ Annie Red has found a way to rise above their rude remarks. Instead of thinking of her voice as a weakness, she uses it to spread her anti-bullying message far and wide.

    3     She posts her music online, too. She likes to give students a rhythmic and interactive show while teaching them how to overcome bullying. “It makes them feel like they're not alone.”

Annie Red believes that standing up to bullying is more important than ever.     4     “You don't have to show your face at all,” she says. “Someone could easily be affected by that.”

    5     She believes that kids of her generation can make things better by finding their passions, and using those passions to inspire changes, as she has. “Kids' being more confident in themselves and wanting to do something that they really enjoy doing is something that motivates me to keep doing what I do.”

Mohe Ballroom 《漠河舞厅》    1    （release）in June last year and featured in Liu Shuang’s third album, First Planet. The song was inspired by Liu's trip in 2019 to Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China's northernmost city,     2     he met an elderly man who was dancing alone in a ballroom.

"I was curious and danced with him. We talked for a while during a break, when I learned about his story," said Liu, who later wrote     3     article titled Goodbye Evening Star, which he published on his social media platform. Mohe Ballroom,     4    (write) in March last year, is based on the old man's story.

On May 6, 1987, about 200 people were killed when a fire that broke     5    in mountains near Mohe tore through the city. The fire, which lasted 28 days, destroyed more than 10,000 square kilometers of forest. Direct economic losses were estimated at 500 million yuan. The elderly man, who uses the pseudonym(化名) Zhang Dequan, lost his wife to the blaze. He has not remarried and has no children,     6     he often visits the old ballroom and dances alone to remember the times he and his wife spent there.

One listener said: "It's easy to see why Mohe Ballroom resonated with listeners when it did. Full of     7     (emotion) detail and poetic lyrics, the song, with Liu's whispery vocals, fulfills people's imaginations about a tragic love story."

The song's huge     8     (popular) has made Mohe an in-demand tourism destination. Visitors flock to the city     9    （see）the ballroom, in the hope of meeting the elderly man.

Li Jinbao, who owns the ballroom, told Beijing News: "The man often visited my ballroom in 2019. However, since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have not seen him. "I was 21 when I witnessed the fire that swept through Mohe. The city was later rebuilt and its first public ballroom opened, which     10    （immediate）became popular among local residents."

Luo Wenbo is     1     native of Qiqihar, a city in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. As she has acted as the leading dancer during many international cultural events in recent years, the     2     (gift), hard-working dancer has created a miracle within the world’s dance community.

As a little girl, Luo has a talent     3     art. She was good at painting and playing the electronic piano. Yet, she was most interested in dancing. Luo followed her heart. At 12, she attended a dance school in Beijing. At first, she was the     4     (fat) girl in the class. However, the strong-willed girl worked hard     5     (improve) her dancing skills. Within several months, she not only lost weight, but also tempered (磨炼) her willpower.

Luo     6     (suffer) lots of injuries over the years. But nothing could stop her. Now Luo has become a super star. You could see her dancing for some big events. And Luo has also starred in many     7     (movie).

“One has to experience numerous difficulties when     8     (develop) his career. Making persevering efforts to turn your dream into a reality is painful, but joyful. Despite the difficulties and hardships     9     lie ahead, I’ll carry on. I’ll also spare no effort to perfect     10     (I) dance skills and promote the traditional Chinese culture” said Luo.

Time for people to pick up their loudspeaker boxes and dance to music,    1     Dec 7, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that breaking（霹雳舞）would be     2     Olympic sport at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. It will be the latest modern sport     3     is added to the Games. IOC President Thomas Bach said that the new     4     (add) of breaking could help the Olympics event be “more youthful” and that IOC     5     (plan) to introduce sports particularly popular among the younger generation. Bach said they would also Yake into consideration the urbanization（城市化）of the sport.

Breaking was     6     (original) part of early hip-hop culture in New York in the 1970s. In the past decades, it has spread globally,    7     (enjoy) huge popularity beyond the US and particularly across Europe and Asia.    8     breaking is often considered as a style of street dance, it can be more easily sorted into sports than others for     9     (it) competitive nature. “Back in the Bronx, when it first started, it was always neighborhoods of     10     (child) just battling each other”, 26-year-old breakdancer Victor Montalvo told USA Today. “That’s how they did it back in the day.”

9 . At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today's most popular songwriters.

She has been ________ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, and many other today's popular music artists. Their works have been ________ . And she was even included in three Grammy nominations（提名）.

But just a few years ago, Charles was only a（n） ________ in the crowd. She was ________ in a musical family. "My dad is a DJ. My mom is a dancer," Charles ________ . "So growing up in this family, I was always ________ by music and crazily chased after musicians."

Charles said she first ________ music at age 13, when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she was ________ to produce. "So she got one for me, and I started tapping on the keys," she said.

Charles continued to learn music at New York University, where she'd make songs in her dormitory and post them online. Soon she was ________ in flying across the country on weekends, performing on stage and then studying at school.

"It was tough for me. There were some classes I ________ had to skip. But yeah, it was must time management and 1 had to ________ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or I'd finish the ________ on the plane. I wrote songs during the weekend. I made sure I studied hard so I could finish ________ that year," she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said, "It's ________ that my favourite artists are now the people I cooperate with. Several years ago, I was at their ________ but now I'm in the studio with them."

10 . When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony(交响乐). He had started work on his Tenth Symphony but, due to declining health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches.

Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musicologists have puzzled over what could have been. Now, thanks to the work of a team of scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.

The scientists were divided into two parts-the human side and the machine side. The human side deciphered (破译)and transcribed the sketches from the Tenth Symphony, trying to understand Beethoven’s intentions. Meanwhile, the A. I. side faced more challenges.

First, and most fundamentally, they needed to figure out how to take a short phrase and use it to develop a longer, more complicated musical structure, just as Beethoven would have done. Next, because the continuation of a phrase also needs to follow a certain musical form, the A. I. needed to learn Beethoven’s process for developing these forms. The A. I. also needed to learn how to take a melodic line and harmonize it and how to bridge two sections of music together. Finally, once they had a full composition, the A. I. was going to have to figure out how to orchestrate it, which involves assigning different instruments for different parts. And it had to pull off these tasks in the way Beethoven might do so.

The success of the attempt proves they were on the right track. But these were just a couple of minutes of music. There was still much more work to do. At one point, one of the music experts on the team said that the A. I. reminded him of an eager music student who practices every day, learns, and becomes better and better. Now that student, having taken the baton from Beethoven, is ready to present the Tenth Symphony to the world.