Music is one of the most    1    (power) things in my life. Listening to music can help to motivate me in trying time. When younger, I    2    (have) no great love for music as I do now. I mainly listened to the music    3    my parents were playing. Whether I was in the car, the house,    4    anywhere else, there was sure to be some Beatles, or Buddy Holly constantly playing in the background. Now as I am older, I enjoy it for the reason that it allows me to remember my childhood.

I believe music has the power    5    (express) all sorts of emotions. The song “A Little Bit Longer” Jonas Brothers is    6    an emotional and inspiring song that when hear it, I always come close to    7    (drop) down tears, especially when I watch it being played live. The effect (that music can have    8    our emotions is great, as it can bring people to floods of tears or bursts of    9    (laugh).

I believe music affects people in many ways. To me, music is    10    (extreme) important in my life.

Studies show that music not only helps people get through pain, but that listening to music could be the key to good health.

When slow rhythm music     1     (play), the heartbeat and blood pressure slow down, helping people take breaths more slowly, thus     2     (decrease) muscle tension in the shoulders, neck, stomach and back.     3     (specialist) have also found that music decreases psychological tension. A regular habit of listening to music helps relax     4     (mental) and physically, thus helping to ease and avoid back pain.

Experts state during exercise music can give a better approach in     5     number of ways. Experts say it can improve mood and grow endurance (持久力). Also, studies show that listening to music can lead to a faster     6     (recover) of the body. What is more, it appears that any type of music can help the patients recover sooner,     7     is one of the surprising health benefits of music.

Many people suffer from memory loss. Music can be used as a tool to help patients remember songs     8     keep in touch with their history. The part of the brain that     9     (process) music is placed next to memory. Studies have found that people with memory loss respond     10     (good) to music of their choice.

In the West we are familiar    1    ballets like Swan Lake. But there’s another classical dance form with a long history    2    has only recently burst onto the world scene. It is called classical Chinese dance.

Classical Chinese dance is    3    incredibly demanding, refined, and expressive dance form. Alongside ballet, it is also one of the most comprehensive dance systems    4    (know)to humankind.

    5    recently, few people outside China had ever heard of classical Chinese dance. One major reason was that when Chinese companies performed abroad, they often mixed Chinese dance with western dance style. And so the audience left the theater not sure exactly    6    they had just seen.

In 2006, however, the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company    7    (establish) in New York. Its mission was to promote    8    (tradition) culture, and this included    9    (present)classical Chinese dance in its pure form. Not quite a decade later, classical Chinese dance has become much    10    (well)recognized and is starting to influence western ballet.

4 . A singing contest of Chinese songs for overseas Chinese     1     (hold) on June 15th, 2019 in Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. The contest is part of the “Water Cube Cup” Chinese Songs Singing Competition, which is     2     global activity to introduce Chinese culture and tell Chinese stories to the world.     3     (it) aim is to strengthen the link between China and the world through Chinese culture. In August, the top three will go to Bejing for the final.

Johann Strauss was born in Vienna in 1825. Although his father did not want him to become a     1    (music), Strauss Junior studied the violin     2    (secret) as a child. When his father discovered his son practising on a violin one day, he gave him a beating,    3    (say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. But that didn’t prevent the boy from becoming one of the     4    (great) composers of all time.

He wrote his first waltz (华尔兹) at the age of six. At nineteen, he decided to devote     5    (he) to music. He formed his own orchestra and made a successful tour of Europe and soon became known     6     the Waltz King. The emperor of Austria was so     7    (please) with his music that he appointed him the conductor at the court balls of Vienna. It was for these occasions     8    he wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among     9    was the well-known favorite The Blue Danube (蓝色多瑙河) in all, the talented Johann Strauss     10    (write) more than 500 masterpieces.