Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music b{#blank#}1{#/blank#}class, after class and at lunch, Students with cars buy large speakers and play music l{#blank#}2{#/blank#}as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the n{#blank#}3{#/blank#}about sports, the weather, and activities of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.

    Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio starts to use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the m{#blank#}4{#/blank#}from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    There are o{#blank#}6{#/blank#}kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was done by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies of Beethoven.

    The inhaler(喷雾剂) was lying there on the table. Cassie froze.

    "Oh no!" she breathed. "Not again!"

    She looked at the little green c{#blank#}1{#/blank#}on the cooker-12:17. The train would leave at 12:34 and her grandpa had been gone around four minutes. Could she-if she ran like a racehorse get to the station before he got on the train？There was no time to lose. She grabbed her jacket, her keys and her purse. Her fingers m{#blank#}2{#/blank#}fast to tie her shoes, but too fast to be accurate. She opened the front door and shut it heavily behind her.

Her b{#blank#}3{#/blank#}began to work fast, Which is the quickest way to find him？Should I g{#blank#}4{#/blank#}which route he has taken and may be lucky enough to catch up with him？Or should I just get to the station the fastest possible way and hope to be there when he arrives？But there are two entrances to the station. He might take e{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, What should I do？"

    Cassie was worried about her grandfather. As she ran through the shopping centre, she pictured him sitting on the train, and then s{#blank#}6{#/blank#}his breath becoming difficult, and his face turning pale. He would search for the inhaler and it wouldn't be in his pocket.

    A man was setting out a table in front of his cafe. There was no space between him and the table. She ran into him and knocked him down. "Sorry!" she tried to call out as she raced past him, but she had so little breath that she only made a very w{#blank#}7{#/blank#}sound. She knew he didn't hear her, but she couldn't stop.

    At last she was at the station. She looked at her watch. It was 12:30 and she still hadn't seen her grandfather.

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