2 . 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.

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!

5 . 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.”