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【盐仓24秋】外研版(2024)英语九年级上册A本Module 11 Photos Unit 2 第1课时
From my second grade on, there was one thing I was afraid of every year: the piano recital(音乐演奏会). A recital 1 I had to practise a boring piece of music and play before strangers. Each year I 2 ask my father if I could run away from the recital" just once". And each year he would shake his head, saying 3 about building self-confidence and working towards a goal.
So it was really great when I stood in church one recent Sunday with a camera in hand, and 4 my 68-year-old father sweating(流汗) in his shirt before rising to play the piano in 5 very first recital.
My father had expected to play music since childhood but his family was poor and couldn't 6 lessons. He could have been regretting it, 7 too many of us do. But even if he was always thinking about his past, he wasn't stuck there. When he retired three years ago, he 8 his church music teacher to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he just looked down at his 9 . Has he forgotten the notes? I worried, remembering those special seconds many years ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would become 10 . But then came the beautiful melody(旋律), from the 11 fingers that once repaired my fishing lines. And I learned he had been doing what his 12 teacher always told him: Only 13 the music and imagine the others aren't there.
"I'm 14 of him for starting something new at his age, "I said to my son Jeff excitedly.
"Yeah, and doing it so 15 , " Jeff added. We all smiled.
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Peng Jingxuan, a 29-year-old Chinese girl, is now studying in a music university in Paris. Peng began to study the guzheng when she was 7 years old. In 2017, she went to France to study music. She was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to find that very few people in France knew about the guzheng. "I wanted to make this instrument known to more people, "Peng said. She made her {#blank#}2{#/blank#} performance in front of a theater in October, 2018. Later, she {#blank#}3{#/blank#} on French streets, wearing a silk Han Dynasty-style dress and playing the guzheng to passers-by. The more Peng played on the streets, the{#blank#}4{#/blank#} pride she felt in sharing Chinese music and culture.
The videos of Peng playing the guzheng in Paris spread {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and got many likes. They made Peng a very popular guzheng artist. She has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of fans on the Internet now. "That's just amazing! I {#blank#}7{#/blank#} this kind of music in Chinese films before. But the pieces Peng plays fill my soul with energy. "A foreign fan commented.
More and more people become {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in the guzheng after watching Peng's performances. "People come to me and praise me for the beauty of the instrument and the music. Every time they ask me which country the guzheng comes from, I am very happy to tell them it's from China. "Peng feels she has more responsibility {#blank#}9{#/blank#} traditional culture. "Music has no borders(边界). I hope more people around the world {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the chance to experience the beauty of guzheng, and Chinese music. I also hope to play a bigger role in making Chinese music known by the world, "Peng said.
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