During the Spring and Autumn Period, there lived a great musician named Yu Boya. He playedguqinvery well.【小题1】Zhong Ziqi was one of them.

One day, Yu Boya came back from a trip to the mountains. He playedguqinto express his love for the mountains.

【小题2】Zhong said, “How beautifully you’re playingguqin! When I listen to you playingguqin, I can almost see the mountains in front of my eyes.”

【小题3】Then he played another tune(调子). Zhong clapped his hands and cheered again, “What a beautiful tune it is! When I listen to it, I seem to imagine hundreds of boats are sailing down big rivers.”

Boya was surprised at Zhong’s comments(评论).【小题4】Whenever he played a new tune, Zhong could tell what Boya was thinking about when he played the tune.

“You appreciate(欣赏) my music and understand my mind. You know me like a true friend,” Boya said excitedly.

After that, Boya and Zhong became close friends. After Zhong’s death, Boya was so sad that he broke hisguqinand decided never to play it again.

This is the story about Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi. We can learn a lesson from the story.【小题5】If you find your true friends, love them and cherish(珍惜) real friendships.

How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as fun, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is short-sighted (短视的). 【小题1】

Music tells us who we are. Music shows people’s thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. 【小题2】

Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. 【小题3】 We need every possible way to discover and respond (回应) to our world because no one way can get it all.

Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. 【小题4】 Through the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take them away from the meanings that music expresses. 【小题5】 Music does. So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.