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M12U1
(The Blue Danube)
Daming: Hmm, this is ___________(西方的) music, isn't it? Can you hear the ___________(小提琴) and the piano? It's so beautiful! ls this ________ Strauss or Mozart?
Lingling: I'm not sure...
Betty: It's ________ Strauss. I love his music! Do you know ___________ (something) about him, Tony?
Tony: Was he ___________(Germany)?
Betty: No, he was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria. _________ a beautiful city! This _____________(call) The Blue Danube. The Danube is a river in Europe. It goes _____________(穿过) Vienna.
Lingling: Do you like _____________(tradition) ___________(west) music or ___________(流行的) music, Betty?
Betty: Well, I like _________(两者). You listen to pop music, Lingling, don't you?
Lingling: Yes, I do. I also like Beijing __________(歌剧). Listen to this fantastic _____________(声音).
Tony: Hmm, the sound is very... different, isn't it? I'm a fan of rock music. Listen to this!
Daming: Hey! Give us a break!
Lingling: Rock music? Listen to those ___________(鼓)!
Daming: It's so ___________(吵闹的)! And much too fast!
Tony: You don't like rock music? I don't ____________(相信) it!
M12U2
The city of music
Vienna is a beautiful old city ______ the River Danube in the centre of Europe. It's the capital city of Austria and the centre of ___________(欧洲的) ___________(class) music. In the _____________(eighteen) ____________(世纪) a lot of musicians came _____________(study) and work in Vienna.
In the Strauss family, there were two ___________(compose) _________ (call) Johann Strauss: the father and the son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music _______ traditional dances, _______(call) the waltz. His dance music made him famous all over Europe. The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was also very ___________(success) and popular. He wrote over 150 waltzes. In 1867 he wrote The Blue Danube waltz.
Mozart was ____________(又一个) very important ___________(作曲家). He was born in Austria in 1756. ___________ he was six, he p