要求：1）条理清楚、意思连贯、语句通顺、标点正确;

2）70词左右。

参考词汇: lose one's eyesight失明;instrument乐器; give up放弃

Where did you go yesterday? Did you hear1at any of those places? Today most stores and restaurants play music. You might 2hear music in an office or on a farm.

Scientists believe that music changes the 3people behave(表现). According to some scientists, the sound of Western classical music makes people4richer. When a restaurant plays classical music, people spend 5_money on food and drinks. When the restaurant plays6music, people spend less money. With 72music, people spend even less.

Scientists also8that loud, fast music makes people eat faster. In fact, people 9 their food faster when the music gets faster. So restaurants play fast music during their 10 hours. This gets people to eat faster and leave quickly. Restaurants 11 make more money this way.

Some scientists think that music makes you think and learn better. They say 12music helps students to be more active. It is true that people learn better when they are13. And listening to music can help you relax.

The 14time you hear music somewhere, be careful. It might change the way you do15.

Two years ago, Janna lost her father. She was very sad. In her blog, she wrote about how her father gave up everything for his family. "He's 52. He never went to

Europe, Africa or California. He always wanted to make his dream of touring the world come true. "Janna said she almost lost the hope to live. "I seemed to have all- a great job, a comfortable apartment, a kind boyfriend, and so on," she wrote. However, she was deeply down all the time.

But one day, she decided to come back to her common life. In order to finish her father's travel dream to Europe, she made a cardboard cut-out of her father(纸板爸爸).

Then she bought a one-way ticket to Iceland, sold most of her clothes and left her job. "I left everything in New York City to travel the world for the first time with the cardboard cut-out of my dad, "she said. "To share his story, and to help bring peace to my mother, my 22-year-old brother, my 9-year-old sister, and myself, I took him with me all over Europe. "

She said she hoped her travel would encourage(鼓励)others to follow their dreams and enjoy the time with their family.

Jazz is one of the art forms. It started in the US. Black Americans created jazz. They sang and played it together and it made them feel excited.

Jazz is a mixture of African music, work songs, slave songs and religious music. Improvisation(即兴创作) is the most important part in jazz. That is why a jazz song might sound a little different every time it is played.

Many jazz bands appeared in the late 1800s. They played jazz in bars in many towns and cities, especially in New Orleans. New Orleans is an international city and people from all over the world come to New Orleans to enjoy jazz.

Jazz is becoming more and more popular. By the1920s, jazz was popular in the US. By the 1940s, you could listen to jazz not only in clubs and bars, but in concert halls. Now, people in many countries can listen to jazz.

Once upon a time, there was a boy in a village. He wanted to be a famous (音乐家), but nobody thought his dream would come (真的；真实的).

One day, his grandma said to him, "Dear, if you like (摇滚乐) and would like to learn to play the (鼓), just do it. Don't let others' words stop you going for your dream. I (相信) that you will be successful one day. "

The boy (摇晃)his head and said, "Grandma, will I be successful in the future? What if I can't make it?"

"You know, no one's life is (完美的).

You just need to remember life is full of surprise (惊喜), "his grandma said with a . (笑容).

A few years later, the boy made it. He wrote a (首) of music to thank his grandma. Every time when he played it, he would remember those (绝妙的) days with his grandma. And he also remembered her words that helped him become a better man.

Beethoven was (bear) on December 16, 1770. He (grow) up in Germany. His father wanted him to become musician. With the help of his father, he (study) music.

Beethoven left school got a job. He played the organ (风琴) at the age of 11. When he (be) 17, he moved to Vienna. He met Mozart there.

Beethoven couldn't hear (good) at the age of his twenties and later he heard nothing. Beethoven never got (marry) and lived alone all his life. He didn't look after (he) well. He wore old clothes and didn't cut his hair very often. For most of his life he was poor. He had few friends and didn't get on well most people. He died in 1827.

Fredéric Francois Chopin was a world-famous pianist and composer. He was born on March 1st, 1810 in a village of Poland. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman and his mother, Tekla Justyna Krzyanowska, was a Pole.

Chopin received his earliest piano lessons not from his mother but from his sister. When he was six, Chopin played the piano very well and started to compose. At the age of seven, he began giving public concerts and composed two polonaises (a dance of Polish origin).

When Chopin was 20, he left Poland and finally stayed in Paris. When Chopin left his country, his friends gave him some Polish soil(土壤). He carried it around with him all the time. Chopin loved his country Poland, even though(尽管)he never went back there.

Chopin was not healthy, and he died in Paris in 1849.

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.

Adult(成年的)drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer's songs are heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money 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 star.

There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk(民间的)music. It tells stories about the common (普通的)life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.