1 . I love music. From the time I was a preschooler, I remember ______ my father play jazz on the piano and my family sing with ______. As I grew up and took piano lessons, I became very ______ of classical music. In the early 60s the Beatles was ______ and I was attracted to “pop” and “rock” music.
As time went on, I ______ to like almost every type of music, from opera to new age. Music did ______ for me. It helped me in every mood and ______ me up. My husband and I can go to a Broadway musical, or an opera. What is it that ______ us to music? Why do we have iPods today with thousands of songs? It’s ______ music is a part of the earth and our nature.
Music is for every ______. It is thought that babies hear ______ before they are born. Mothers sing lullabies (摇篮曲) to their babies and are able to put them to ______. When ________, pre-school children listen to music. It is also thought that it helps them ______ the beginnings of mathematics. It has been used in ______ settings as a way to comfort and help cure victims of stress syndrome(综合症). It also helps people keep ______, when music is played and sung during a memorial.
While we ______ music every day, we don’t think about all of this. ______, we listen to music regularly because it is a (n) ______ part of our earth’s rhythms. So, the next time you listen to music, think of it as a ______ that you share at any time and can have with you always.
1. A.seeing | B.feeling | C.hearing | D.helping |
2. A.records | B.stories | C.speeches | D.movies |
3. A.tired | B.sure | C.sick | D.fond |
4. A.hopeless | B.popular | C.sensitive | D.secure |
5. A.learned | B.agreed | C.grew | D.offered |
6. A.anything | B.something | C.everything | D.nothing |
7. A.cheered | B.brought | C.picked | D.packed |
8. A.forces | B.orders | C.teaches | D.attracts |
9. A.how | B.because | C.when | D.where |
10. A.moment | B.singer | C.age | D.baby |
11. A.sound | B.noise | C.voice | D.music |
12. A.sleep | B.move | C.talk | D.speak |
13. A.old | B.young | C.strong | D.honest |
14. A.change | B.watch | C.understand | D.accept |
15. A.medical | B.physical | C.chemical | D.political |
16. A.nervous | B.healthy | C.still | D.calm |
17. A.make | B.enjoy | C.play | D.copy |
18. A.Besides | B.Therefore | C.However | D.Instead |
19. A.important | B.common | C.ordinary | D.regular |
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