2 . When I was a teenager, my dad wasn’t terribly interested in the music I liked. To him, it just sounded like “______ ”, while he referred to the music he listened to as“______ .” As I’ve grown older, I’ll often hear people of my age say things like “they just don’t make _____ music like they used to.”

Luckily, my ______ as a psychologist has given me some insights into this puzzle. We know that musical tastes begin to ______ when we’re teenagers. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get locked into place pretty firmly.

In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have ______ listening to new music. Meanwhile, those familiar songs released when you’re in your early teens are likely to remain quite ______ among your age group for the rest of your life. There could be a biological ______ for this. There’s evidence that the brain’s ability to make subtle distinctions between different chords, rhythms and melodies gets ______ with age. So to older people, less ______ songs might all “sound the same”.

But I believe there are some simpler ______ for older people’s dislike of newer music-the “mere exposure effect”. It means that the more we’re ______ to something, the more we tend to like it.

Psychology research has shown that the emotions that we ______ as teens seem more intense than those that come later. We also know that intense emotions are ______ with stronger memories and preferences. All of this might explain why the songs we listen to during this period become so memorable and beloved.

So there’s ______ wrong with your parents because they don’t like your music. In a way, it’s all part of the natural order of things.

4 . Sudha Chandran ,a dancer from India ,had to have her right leg cut off after a car accident. It also _______her career path._______ she didn’t give up. In the painful months that _______,she met a doctor who had developed an artificial(人造的)leg _______rubber.After she had been fitted with an artificial leg ,so _______was her desire that she decided to go back to _______.

Sudha _______herself and knew she could make her _______come true,so she began her _______ back to the world of dancing—________to balance ,bend ,walk ,turn ,twist and twirl again.

________every public recital(公演) ,she would ask her dad about her performance. “You still have a long way to go ” was the ________she used to get. In January 1984 ,Sudha made a historic comeback by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a ________manner that her performance moved everyone to tears. That evening ,when she asked her dad the ________question ,he didn’t say anything. He just touched her artificial leg as a ________of praising her.

Sudha’s comeback was so heart-warming that a film producer ________to make a film about it.

When someone asked Sudha ________she had succeeded in dancing again, she said quite ________ ,“You don’t need feet to dance. ”________is impossible in this world. If you have the will to ________ ,you can succeed in doing anything.

5 . It’s been five years since I came to America. The year before I arrived, every weekend I was woken up by “Spring River in the Flower Moon Night”, ________ by my mother on a zheng.

My mom was always enchanted（着迷）by the beauty of Chinese traditional music________she never had the chance to learn a(n)________. In 2009, she got a zheng from a friend and has been playing and ________ ever since. Sometimes when I miss her, I search for the songs she used to play on the Internet. I ________ expected to hear them here in Boston.

Earlier this year, as I________ a new apartment, I met Zhantao Lin, the director of the Boston Chinese Musicians Association. At Lin’s house, I heard the ________ of the erhu. Lin later________ me to his music team and I heard the rehearse（排练）for a ________this year. It was beautiful and powerful — it ________ brought me back to my hometown in China.

________is also part of Lin’s daily routine. Besides performing, he passed on his love of the erhu to his ________. I went to one of Lin’s classes and met 9-year-old London Turk. I asked him ________he chose to learn the erhu. “It’s much ________ to learn than the violin,” he said. Perhaps Turk hasn’t really started to________ the beauty of the erhu, but his mother has always loved the instrument. “There are so many beautiful things in Chinese________: the music, the language, and the art. So we just try our best to let him have the ________ to explore it,” she said.

I ________my mom for giving me a chance to immerse（使沉浸）myself in the Chinese musical world. The music makes me feel relaxed. It can also ________me of my homesickness. If you listen to one piece, you will ________its uniqueness, power, and beauty.

7 . Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago a small study advanced the _____________ that listening to Mozart’s Sonata could boost mental functioning. It was not long _____________ trademarked “Mozart effect” products appealed to anxious parents aiming to put toddlers (刚学步的孩子) on the fast track to the famous universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgia’s governor even ___________ giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette.

The ___________ for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the _____________ study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, ___________, scientists have examined the benefits of a continuous effort to study and practice music, as opposed to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based “brain fitness” game ___________ in a while.

Advanced monitoring ___________ have enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music ___________ can produce profound and lasting changes that ____________ the general ability to learn. These results should ____________ public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ready for being given up in the budget crises that constantly troubles public schools.

Studies have shown ______________ instrument training from an early age can help the brain to ______________ sounds better, making it ____________ to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to mathematics. The musically experienced are better able to ________________ a biology lesson despite the noise in the classroom or, a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next office starts screaming at a subordinate (下属). They can be engaged in several things at once, which is an essential skill in this era of multitasking.

8 . Jazz is a popular form of music. But no one knows exactly when it came into_________. In contrast to classical music, which follows formal European traditions, Jazz is _________ and free-form.

The _________ of this music are as interesting as the music itself. Jazz was _______ by American blacks, who were brought to the Southern states as slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long hours in the cotton and tobacco fields. This work was hard and life was _________. When a black died, his friends and relatives formed a procession to_________ the body to the cemetery.

A band often _________ the procession. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the _________. But on the way home the _______ changed. Spirits lifted. Everybody was happy. Death had removed one of their members, __________ the living were glad to be alive. The band played ________ music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes presented at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of Jazz.

Music has always been __________ in black people’s life. Coming mainly from West Africa, those who were brought to America already __________ a rich musical tradition. This music __________ on religious ceremonies __________ dancing, singing, clapping, and stamping to the __________ of a drum were important forms of musical and rhythmic __________. As these people settled __________ their new life in the plantations of the South, music __________ its importance. In the fields, they __________ work songs. Singing made the hard work go faster.

9 . About a year ago, I had to spend a week in a hospital, because of the deadly food poisoning. There I met an elderly woman, who _______ to be a professional musician. That time when I met her, the idea of learning to sing didn't _______ my mind. I thought it was something _______ and not meant for me, like being an airplane pilot.

And only recently, I suddenly decided to learn singing.1 was _______ my dog early in the morning. I sang _______ to myself and it made me feel so wonderful. At that moment I _______ I had known more good songs and how to control my _________ better. And then I thought, why didn't I take some singing lessons? Of course, it was not a (n) _________ skill that I could use at work, but not everything in this life is about actual _______ and income.

It was easy to find that woman. I remembered her name and there was only one ______________ college in our city. I was ______________ she would reject me because l was a terrible ______________. But she took my request very ______________. She understood how important music was ______________ one's soul. In my first lesson, she sat at the gorgeous big piano and ______________ some rising notes that I had to repeat. At first I was terrified to       ______________ because I feared being judged and criticized. But my teacher was kind and professional.________________, she was strict when she knew I could do better.

Learning to sing was like learning to walk. It was like ________________ that all your life you had some superpower but were not aware of its ______________. Singing taught me more than just being able to take some high or low ______________. Most importantly, it taught me to be braver about expressing myself and my opinions.

10 . Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. “The only thing that I love is dance,” she told CBS News. That ambition nearly _______ one night in 2010.

Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior, was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and that _______ her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the _______ . Far from being a（n） _______ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to _______ to my community and to myself that I was still ‘normal’.” Whatever normal meant, normal for her meant _______ . so Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her _______ high school dance team. “Half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.”

After graduation, Hill wanted to ________ her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries and shared her ________ , and she invited them to dance with her. “It was such a（n） ________ experience.” Hoping to ________ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes, a ________ to the Rockettes, a famous dancing team. “I want to ________ the prejudice of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________ ,” she said to CBS News. Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something ________ . She calls it the Rollettes Experience, and in 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended it. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they ________ . “It was the most unimaginable thing when I rolled into a room and everyone was at ________ level.” Hill told CBS News.