What are some traditional kinds of music in your country?

Do you like popular music form Latin America, the United States, or Asia? Many musicians form around the world blend their country’s music with popular sounds.

After thirty years, Caetano Veloso is still one of Brazil’s most important musicians. He mixes rock with the music of Bahia region. Bahia is a state of Brazil that is strongly influenced by African culture. Caetano Veloso is an excellent songwriter and poet. He says of his music, “I make my records like a painter paints his canvas.”

Bonnie Raitt is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Her music blends rock with country and the blues. The blues is a kind of folk music that is often sad. It is usually about love and the problems of life. Bonnie Raitt’s strong, rough voice is perfect for singing country and the blues

☆ Cui Jian

Cui Jian is a very important musician in the growth of rock music in Chin

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A．Western styles, like jazz and rap, clearly influenced his music. However, his music is very Chinese in its instruments and sounds. Cui Jian says his music expresses the feelings of Chinese young people.

(1) Read about the three musicians. Complete the chart.

(2) Answer the following questions.

　　What do these three musicians have in common?

　　How does Caetano Veloso make his records?

　　Why is Bonnie Raitt’s voice good for country and blues music?

Starting a stamp collection is easy and not very expensive. Before you start, you need to decide what kind of stamps you want to collect. Most people collect stamps that they are interested in: a certain country or an animal, a famous person or even a sport. Whatever you choose, you will find that there is a world of knowledge in stamps: you will learn about people, geography, building, history and culture.
You can collect stamps from letters, ask your friends to let you have their old stamps, or you can buy used stamps. When you get a letter with a stamp on it, carefully cut out the stamp. Leave lots of space around the stamp so that you will not damage it. Put the stamp in water and wait until you can safely remove the stamp. Carefully remove the stamp off the letter. Place the wet stamp between two clean pieces of paper. A stamp can get wrinkled(褶皱的) when it dries, so put some books on top.
【小题1】What does the writer think of collecting stamps?

Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They    1    that their parents don’t understand them. They often think their parents are too strict    2    them.
Parents often find    3    difficult to win their children’s trust and they seem to forget how they themselves felt when they were young.
For example, young people like to do things without    4  . It’s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can    5    any difficult problems. Older people worry more easily. Most of them like to plan things ahead and don’t like their plans to be known. So when you want your parents to let you do    6   , you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry by the clothes they wear, the music they enjoy, and something else. But they    7    to cause any trouble. They just feel that in this way they can be cut off from the old people’s world and they want to make a new culture    8    their own. And if their parents don’t like their music or clothes or their ways of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes    9    going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home alone and do what they like.
If you plan to do something, you’d better win your parents over and get them to understand you.   10    your parents will certainly let you do what you want to do.