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    What kind of music do you like? How do you {#blank#}1{#/blank#} when you listen to your favorite music? Do you think music can make people feel better or help {#blank#}2{#/blank#}learn?

    Jen Morgan is a music therapist (治疗专家). She works with children with disabilities (缺陷). Jen {#blank#}3{#/blank#}music to help them learn new things. She can also help them with their {#blank#}4{#/blank#}and memory (记忆力).

    There are different {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for doing music therapy. Jen gets the children to listen to music and sing or play along. The children also enjoy moving to the music. Jen asks them to try to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}songs they like, too.

    Jen writes songs and uses them in her therapy work. "I've probably written more than 200 songs," she says. "I write songs about {#blank#}7{#/blank#} about getting dressed, about flowers, about my favorite food—you name it Sometimes the children help me write songs."

    Jen loves her job {#blank#}8{#/blank#}a music therapist "I'm very lucky to have this job," she says. It's {#blank#}9{#/blank#}to see how music can help children with disabilities. Often children are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} when I first meet them. But they soon start having fun and enjoying the music. Music makes people feel good!

    Everybody knows that it is dangerous to cross the street without looking both ways in China. However, I had a different experience in Berkeley, a beautiful city in California, US.

    I didn't know what to do when I had to cross the roads{#blank#}1{#/blank#}my first couple of days there：I wondered whether I should let the car go first or not？Based on my old experience back in China, I would certainly let the car go. "Who wants to be knocked down by a car？"I thought to{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    One day. I was checking for cars while I was waiting to go to the other side of the road. An SUV came fast toward me, so I stopped and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. However, to my great surprise, the car stopped right in front of me. To be honest. I was a little confused because in China drivers usually try hard to drive as{#blank#}4{#/blank#}as possible to cross the road before people step out. Not knowing what to do for a moment, I saw no sign the car was going to move, so I offered a "signal" to let him go first.