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.

3 . 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.

4 . 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!

6 . 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.”

7 . 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.

8 . 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.

9 . 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 _______. In 2009, she got a zheng from a friend and has been playing and performing ever since. Sometimes when I _______ 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 then 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 a ________ 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.