Music can make us happy, peaceful or sad. As an orchestra(管弦乐队) conductor, Amy Anderson brings music to life, allowing people experience many ____________ that music can give.

Anderson fell in love with music when she was a child. She began playing the piano at seven and started composing at nine. She bought many videos ____________ by the world’s great orchestras and conductors and listened to them for hours on end.

During a concert, the audience see the ____________ of a conductor and the arm movements he or she makes. What audiences do not see is all the work the conductor has done before the ____________.

Months before a concert, Anderson studies the music by ____________ it on the piano. She listens to recordings, reads about the composer’s life, and reviews historical events that would have influenced the composer. Her goal is to recreate the music as the composer ____________.

While conducting, Anderson uses her whole body to ____________ how the music should sound and feel. Her ____________ are dramatic(激动人心的) when the music is ____________ and gentle when the music is peaceful.

To help young musicians better ____________ how to play the music, Anderson might tell them to imagine a ____________ and leisurely walk or a ship being tossed(颠簸) by waves.

“It is music’s ability to reach people that I value most,” said Anderson. She has seen audiences at her concerts ____________, clap together in rhythm, and shout “Bravo!” ____________, audiences are moved to tears. After one concert in Serbia, audiences ____________ around the orchestra’s buses and cheered for the young musicians as they climbed aboard.

Anderson is happy, knowing that she and the musicians have changed lives for the better, ____________ spirits and brought joy to people.

Have you seen the incredible guitar playing of man born with no arms? The musician who was born without arms is being _______ for his greatest guitar-playing skills in a short documentary (纪实的) video which shows him playing the instrument with his _______.

Mark Goffeney, 46 of San Diego, who is _______ as “Big Toe” because of the way he plays the guitar, shows how he became a talented performer despite his _______ in the inspiring video. “I first _______ the instrument when I was nine, after my father brought home a beat-up _______ with only four strings. My first guitar came from some place like a landfill (垃圾场),” says Mark, who adds that he became “_______” about becoming a musician at age 12.

Mark devoted every waking hour to searching his town and trying to join a _______, but ran into _______ because of his disability. Therefore, he started his own rock band, called Wicked Misfit, and began booking gigs (特约演奏) in California.

Things were ________ professionally for Mark because of his disability. But everything ________ when he started playing music from the heart. “When I ________ pursuing this fantasy dream of being a rock star and just started playing music to make whatever milk money I could to support my family, everything started feeling good and ________ out for me,” he shares.

Today, Mark ________ with his band, Big Toe, and also becomes a street-performer in California, where he makes quite good money ________ by passers-by.

Marian Anderson was an American. She was born in 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up surrounded by poverty. Yet she remembered her family as a _______ one because of her parents’ love.

It was in church that Marian first _______ to sing in public. She was six years old then. The songs were about _______ and the hope for a better life after death. Her interest in music _______ as she got older. When she was eight.her father brought home an old piano. But the Andersons were too _______ to pay someone to teach Marian. So she was able to _______ herself only a few simple songs. Her _______ remained her most important musical instrument.

Marian’s father _______ when she was ten years old. She had to go to work to help _______ her family. She __________ to sing at church on Sunday. Soon, other churches __________ the young girl with a beautiful, deep voice. They invited her to sing for them. Marian __________. She began singing in African-American churches __________ Philadelphia.

At about this time, several people told Marian that she should have a voice teacher. They told her that a beautiful voice could be destroyed __________ it was not trained. Marian said she always sang __________ , without any thought of how she did it. She realized that she would need some __________

The people in Marian’s church were very __________ her. They wanted to help, __________ many of them were as poor as the Anderson family. They __________ enough money to pay for a few voice lessons. She went to a local music school in Philadelphia.

Marian was a talented singer. But without those people’s __________ , she might not have become so successful.