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Music forms an important part of many cultural and social activities. People use music to 1 feelings and ideas. Music also serves to entertain and relax.
Music is a performing 2 . It differs from such arts as painting and poetry, in which artists create works and then display or publish them. Music composers need musicians to explain the meaning of their 3 and perform it. So musical performances are partnerships between composers and 4 .
Music is one of the oldest arts. People 5 started to sing as soon as language 6 Hunting tools struck 7 may have been the first musical instruments. By about 10000 BC, people had 8 how to make flutes （長笛） out of hollow（空的） bones. Many ancient people, 9 the Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians, and the people of India, used 10 in court and religious ceremonies （宮廷與宗教慶典）. The first written music dates from about 2500 BC.
Classical music, also called art music, is composed according to certain
11 and performed by musicians from 12 music. It includes symphonies （交響樂） and music for opera and ballet. Classical composers have written 13 styles of music during different periods of history.
14 music includes many kinds of music, such as 15 music, jazz, rock music, and music from films. Popular music is generally much
16 than classical music.
17 music is made up of the old 18 of a people. Most folk songs begin in distant areas. One person makes up a song, and other people
19 it and learn to sing it. Some folk songs have been passed on in this way for hundreds of years. Many 20 of classical music have used folk music in their works.
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As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she 1 out at the audience, 2 to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had 3 all the way from California more than 2000 miles away, to see their 4 compete in this sports meet in Cleveland , Ohio.
The music 5 and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music 6 her along into her turns, and she began skating with much 7 in herself. The cold fear she always had in the 8 seconds before skating onto the ice was 9 She was feeling the movement of the music and 10 it carry her. She skated easily, 11 did some jumps, a final turn, and her performance was 12 .
The crowd loved it and cheered 13 she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other 14 . It was the 15 that always came after a free-skating performance. But what would the 16 way? Standing beside her father, Peggy 17 for the scoring to be finished. On sides were other young skaters, some waiting both 18 alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o'clock the results were 19 . The new United States
Women's Figure Skating champion was Peggy Fleming of Pasadena, 20 ！
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One of the first such clocks was built for a king of France and placed in a tower of the royal palace, The clock did not 1 minutes or seconds.
Usually it did not even show the correct hour! Since there was no planes or trains to catch, people were not 2 knowing the exact time.
Gradually, clocks began to be popular, but they did not keep correct time. They were 3 a cart with a horse and driver. One of the wheels was the face of the clock. Watches 4 as soon as clocks were made small enough to be carried. These did not always tell the correct time, either. They were often put into beautiful watchcases, which were made 5 anything the owner wanted.
The pendulum (鐘擺) clock was invented in 1657. This was the beginning of the style of clocks we call “ grandfather clocks “, which were enclosed in tall wooden boxes. Pendulum clocks showed the hours more exactly than earlier clocks, since the wright on the pendulum could be moved 6 to make the clock go faster or lower. About forty years later, minute and second hands were put on some clocks. Grandfather clocks are very much in demand again today. They are usually very expensive, however, and require 7 than other styles of clocks.
As people began to travel more and do more things, they were more interested in knowing the correct time, By 1900, almost every house had a clock, and nearly every well-dressed gentleman 8 on a chain tucked in his vest pocket.
Today, of course, we have electric clocks that keep giving the right time until they are unplugged or the electricity goes off. Scientists have invented clocks that look like large machines all tell the correct time to a split second.
The most modern electric clocks for home use do not have faces or hands. These clocks are called digital clocks(數(shù)字顯示式電子鐘), and they tell the time with 9 which appear in a little window.
Many electric locks are combined with radios, which can sometimes be set to turn on automatically(自動). Thus, 10 an alarm ringing in your ear in the morning, you can hear soft music playing when it is time to get up. Some clocks will even start the coffee maker!
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