1 . A children’s choir (合唱团) from the snowy highlands of Tibet recently ________ their beautiful singing to the capital, Beijing.

The Qomolangma Children’s Choir was ______ in 2020. They recently paid a week-long trip to Beijing to _____________ their music skills and show their______ to national audiences.

When journalists met the choir on Saturday, the children were ________ the recording of a music program at CCTV in Beijing. Before ________ the program, they received professional _________ from teachers at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM). _________, they also visited scenic _________ in Beijing such as the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City and so on. Tenzin Dunyu, a 10-year-old member of the choir, told the journalists that he has been playing the zhanian for five years. The zhanian, a beautiful __________, is widely used in songs and dances in Tibet. For him, coming to Beijing and _________ in Tiananmen Square was both a nervous and _________ experience, marking his first journey outside Lhasa. Another 10-year-old member, Tsering Lhamo, has been singing for a year. Her trip to Beijing _________ her horizons, and when it came to what______ her most, she said she __________ enjoyed the cheerful songs of the choir performed at CCTV.

Geng Muyao was the choir’s ________ from CCOM to help the children with training. She ________ that the choir was set up by the Tibetan government and __________ by CCOM. “Many members were __________ of vocal (声乐的) training due to poor condition, so this choir experience means a lot to them. ”she said.

Including children from all over Tibet, the choir primarily shows Tibetan folk culture. Though the members are __________, the choir has performed at important events, achieving amazing success in a short time.

2 . Have you ever faced a time when things looked dark and you had no hope at all?Yes, I have. But the _______ has influenced me.

Two years ago, I was told I had a serious _______ which was difficult to deal with. My body ached all the time and I thought I didn’t have much _______ to live. I was very afraid and I felt so _______ and sad. Then one day, I had to go through a two-hour medical treatment (治疗). The doctor wanted me to relax, _______ he had me listen to some music, and one of the _______ was “Happy”. The song made me feel so _______ better that from then on I _______ to listen to music all the time. John A. Logan said, “Music is the _______ of the mind.” And it’s true. Music helped me recover (恢复).

Music gave me happiness. When I listened to music, it made my spirits fly like a kite in the wind. Music gave me strength and ________ me relief (解脱). It was the rock that made me become ________ and to get through those hard times.________, music gave me hope and a sense of satisfaction. It became my best friend. It spoke words of encouragement to the deepest part of my heart.

I hope ________ of you have to go through the same kind of pain that I did. At the same time, we all ________ all kinds of periods when we feel sad or alone. During those times, music can help ________ in the same way that it helped me. I hope all of you will begin to treasure music and make it a part of your life.

3 . Our ancient nomadic (游牧的) ancestor would often sing or dance to show others where to find food. In my family, we’ve always had music around us too and this influence is starting to ______. Our seven-year-old son has ______ to perform his own raps which are quite excellent even without considering how ______ he is. Our four-year-old daughter is showing her musical ______ too —she started to make up little ditties (小调).

What is most joyous about our shared ______ of music are those moments when we all come together as a ______. My favorite time happened in April when I was feeling quite ______ I was cooking breakfast when the kids ______ that I was playing dance music. My seven-year-old son then started to join in dancing. This ______ his four-year-old sister, soon the three of us were jumping up and down. It was a moment of real ______ and it turned around how I was feeling.

At that point, I felt like music would be the way to ______ to the kids. I’ve sat down with my son and together we’ve remixed his voice and I’ve sat with my daughter and we’ve played the guitar. We might not be ______ anything about the whereabouts of food as our ancestor did. But we are giving them an ______ through song. We’re teaching them “Flower of Scotland” so that they might know something about their heritage.

Through ______, we have all become a ______ family.

4 . I walked to Mrs. Windsor’s house and waited outside. She was working with another student, and I was not supposed to________them by ringing the bell. I stood against the wall and________what I’d rather be doing. I had been tutored enough to read, understand, and even write some musical compositions, but I just didn’t have a________for it. Mrs. Windsor had offered to give me the lessons________, so I felt it my duty to try.

The door opened and Wendy Barton came out. I walked in, sat down on the piano bench and began to________my sheet music. Today Mrs. Windsor________her niece Pasha to teach me.

With a smile, Pasha sat beside me on the piano bench, opened my sheet music to the beginning page and asked me to play. I________my fingers on the keys. Then I frowned and concentrated to make the notes on the page________the finger movements. I had to admit I was a rather________pianist.

After about a page or two, Pasha gently put her hand on top of mine as it to________my fingers. There was a long pause. “What are you hearing in the music?” I looked at her rather________and admitted I didn’t know what she meant. “Like a________. Here, let me try and you listen,” Pasha advised.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting her fingers________lightly over the keys. Then, she began to play. “See, it begins here beside some kind of river. Hear the water flowing beside you?” Her fingers ________and fell gently on the keys. “Now a princess appears and she’s picking flowers from the water’s________.”A happy piece of music filled the air in time to Pasha’s dancing fingers.

5 . Have you experienced a condition when listening to a very loud music makes your heartbeat so fast that you can actually feel the_________beating? From this experience, we can conclude that loud and fast music increases the heart rate. Therefore, we have a feeling of high_________and stress when we listen to loud and fast music. On the contrary, soft music is _________tons lower heart rate. People who listen to relaxing music have as lower heart rate,_________to those listening to loud and fast music, or those not listening to music at all.

But why does this happen? Experiments found that the _________of music on the heart is based on the functioning of the brain. When we hear music, the sound waves are _________into electrical impulses(神经冲动) by the brain. As it can increase and decrease the heart rate, the related effect is produced. Now, is it that only soft music _________this effect? Well, listening to soft or relaxing music is surely more _________.However, listening to any type of music you like can be _________, rather than not listening to any music at all.

It is believed that people who havens lower heart rate have a longer life.__________, people having a faster heart rate are at a greater__________of suffering from cardiovascular (心血管的) diseases. Therefore, having a slower heart rate makes you live a longer and healthier life. When music__________the heart rate, there is a feeling of__________

Therefore, it is used as a__________technique, We can conclude by saying that the phrase “Music__________the heart” is not just a saying, but a(n) fact!

7 . Since the age of three, Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. Hill, then a 17-year-old high school _________ was in a car accident that left her paralyzed(瘫痪)from the waist down. For most people, that would have ended any _________ of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. She wanted to prove that she was still ‘_________’. So Hill danced in her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. It _________ took a lot of learning and patience.

After graduation, Hill met people online who had suffered various spinal cord(脊髓) injuries but shared her _________ , and she invited them to dance with her. Hoping to reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and _________ a team of dancers with disabilities called the Rollettes. “I want to _________ the stereotype(刻板印象) of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re _________ ,” she told CBS News.

Dancing on _________, the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast, artful as the foot-based people. Hill has achieved her childhood __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users of all ages and abilities. In 2019, 173 people from ten countries __________. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they __________. “I had a girl say it was the most empowering thing when she rolled into a room and everyone was at __________ level,” Hill told CBS News. Edna Serrano says that being part of the Rollettes team has given her the __________ to get behind the wheel of a car. “I didn’t know I could do so many things that these girls have taught me,” she says. “It’s so __________ to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more confidence.”

8 . I was 11 years old when asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the fallout of the recession(经济衰退). She said a polite “no”.

That didn’t stop me. I googled the measurements for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click _______on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one - keeping the _______they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was _______, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.

I still remember the first one. I was _______by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn’t _______lessons again. I passed grade three, then grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.

One evening, When I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more _______money. It was the first time I’d played for her. She was in shock.

My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The tryouts(选拔) were _______. Some of the questions _______an estimation (评价) of the composer(作曲家) or when it was written. I felt overwhelmed. To my _______I was offered a place.

At Purcell, I spent two years working as hard as I could. I performed to ________money and saved enough to buy my first piano.

When I left Purcell, I was __________the senior piano prize and senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel __________: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and I’m at one of the world’s __________ music schools.

The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: What we call ________ practice. The paper piano helped spark my __________about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.

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 . When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didn’t ______. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could ______ a full-time music school. They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister ______ talent.

I was better at my ______. My teacher had told my parents that I had great ______. So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to ______   me. But the only time he was ______ was Saturday afternoons at 3 pm. Back then, I was ______ by the British TV show "The Avengers", which was ______ every Saturday at 3 pm. I let nothing take up my "The Avengers" hour. So I ______ this amazing opportunity. Today, I don't even have a ______ in my house.

My sister became an engineer, but she ______ stopped making music. When she was in her 40s, she changed her ______. She went back to college, got a(n) ______ in music education, and became a music teacher. She starts kids out on their first instrument and gives them all the encouragement and support she never ______.

Recently, she and a pianist pal put on a recital. A big crowd of friends and family ______ for her. As she played, I looked around at the ______. Everyone was ______ enjoying the music. It occurred to me that I was the only person who remembered that 7-year-old kid making those perfectly ______ sounds and knew how far she had come, despite ______.

Talent is important. But enthusiasm is even more important.