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.If you are not a musician, listen to music and sing or dance. It’s good medicine.Passage 9but country feel form influence or play pleasant popular two sad writeOne of America’s most important cultural products is her modern music. American popular music is ____1____all over the world. It is enjoyed by people of all ages in all countries. The reasons for its ____2____are its fast pace and rhythmic beat. The music has many origins in the United States. Country music ing from the____3____ in the Southern United States is one source. Country music has the characteristics of simple themes and melodies, emotions expressed by country music songs. A ____5____origin of American popular music is the Blues. It is mostly about the ____6____feelings of the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians ____7____it is popular with all Americans. Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style with fast and repetitious rhythm was ____8____by the Blues and Country music. It was first known as rockandroll in the 1950s. Since then, there have been many ____9____of rock music:hard rock, soft rock, pop rock, disco music and others. Manyperformers of popular rock music are young musicians. New popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. People hear these songs sung in either English ____10____other languages. The words may differ but the enjoyment of music is belonging to all.Passage 10 high good succeed reach three arrive exact fit somewhere us bear doThe boy was meters tall when he just started year at primary school.2. _______ in 1980, even his father’s shoes were too small for him when he was a teenager. And his parents couldn’t find size46 shoes 3. _______. At 16, he had the 4. _______ of 2.2 meters. In the whole China, no shop or market had size 53 shoes for his big feet.His parents were worried. And the young tall man felt sorry for his parents. Many times he told his best greatest dream,“I will do my 5. _______. Once I entered the Shanghai Team, I won’t have to worry about my shoes.” That boy was Yao Ming.Today’s Yao is a great basketball star.At that time, however, his dream was not to be a star. He trained hard only to find a pair of shoes that 6. _______his feet, and to relieve his parents of their worry about his shoes.What a simple dream! Yet it was 7. _______ the simple dream that made Yao Ming today’s 8. _______. He only sets the goal for his life and tries 9. _______it. It is not a difficult thing to set a goal. The most difficult part is to know how to reach it.When we want to give up, we should tell 10. _______: travelers first need a fitting pair of shoes, and then a step at a time towards their goals.