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湖南省邵阳市绥宁县2024年九年级下学期二模英语试题（音频暂未更新）
In warm sunshine, a group of students are playing the accordion ( 手风琴). The music sounds like nature itself. They are students at Shuangshiping Middle School in Shegang town in Hunan Province.
68-year-old Guo used to play the accordion at the Hunan Provincial Opera and Dance Drama Theater. After retiring ( 退休) in 2 0 1 4 , he told a friend that he wanted to become a volunteer teacher. "Not all the children have a gift for playing an instrument. But music can influence their life and study greatly, " he said. Then Guo visited the school and discovered that most of the students there had never learned to play the accordion. " The infrastructure ( 基础设施) at the school was poor. I wanted to do something meaningful after retirement, " Guo recalled. In 2014 , he spent 30 , 000 yuan on 20 accordions. With another 10 bought by his friend and 10 more donated by a company, Guo drove for two hours to give free lessons, twice a month from his home in Changsha to the school 122 kilometers away.
He hopes that they can teach students when he is not available. Now, the students also learn to play other instruments, such as the hulusi and guzheng. "Every time I come to teach them, I enjoy myself and I feel young again," he said.
A. Guo also gives lessons to teachers there. B. And their music teacher is Guo Weixiang. C. But it was exactly the place that I was looking for. D. His friend told him about Shuangshiping Middle School. E. It took Guo eight years to teach 1 100 students to learn to play an instrument. |
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