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A

選擇適當?shù)脑~匯或短語，并用其正確的形式填空。

folk， in common， spread， contain， satisfy， emotion， turn music into， perform， musician， totally

Hello， everyone！ Now， Id like to say something about my love of music. Im extremely interested in music. First I like many singing stars， such as Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou. Whenever I have time， I will listen to them sing songs on the radio or on TV. They sing and _1_ so well and they have their own characteristics. Their singing _2_ their love of life， which always moves the fans including me. It is no wonder that their songs? _3_ very far.

In my spare time， I also listen to the CDs of many famous _4_ no matter whether they are singing popular songs or _5_ songs， I even sing and dance to them. Im good at singing. Of course， compared with the stars， Im not so good at understanding music and expressing music， but I have something _6_ with them， that is， there is the same deep _7_ in my singing. In a way， I have _8_ a part of my life.

Now， besides singing， I can also use musical instruments to express my love of music. Whenever I play these instruments， my blood moves faster inside my body， and I feel very excited. Im _9_ lost in it！ To tell you the truth， I have no other great ability， but my interest in music _10_ me greatly. I have no desire to become a musician， I just want to love music and express music， thats enough.

B

If you read 1 million words in English，? finally you will think in that language. With this theory in mind， the Gamagori Municipal Library， in Japan， recently started a lending _1_ for books in English with the purpose of _2_ people to learn the language more _3_.

Kunihide Sakai is a professor at Electro-Communications University in Tokyo and president of the Extensive Reading Association of Japan. _4_ the early 1990s， Sakai has been finding ways to _5_ extensive reading to reading books in English.

The rules are： use no dictionaries while reading; jump _6_ difficult words and phrases; and stop reading the book if it is _7_ difficult.

According to Sakai， if you _8_ to these rules， you can get through more than 1 million words with _9_. And finally you will think in English. The method also helps readers _10_ reading books in English rather than growing to dislike them.

According to Professor Hitoshi Nishizawa at the Toyota National College of Technology in Japan， four technology colleges have _11_the extensive reading method. His own college adopted the method for its electric technology English class， which is held for one hour each week， from the second grade to the fifth grade as well as in the two-year advanced _12_. And _13_ applying the method， the average TOEIC （Test of English for International Communication） score of the colleges graduates _14_ from 330 to 500， out of 990.

The Gamagori library decided to _15_the colleges example and lend books for extensive reading. The library has _16_ about 1，400 books， which _17_ those designed for students of English as a second language. The English level is equal to _18_ of? fourth-grade? primary? school? students? in Britain and the United States. After _19_ this level of English， they can read Harry Potter books in English， according to the professor.

“The method is effective not only for _20_their reading skills， but also for their hearing ability，” said Nishizawa.

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