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Last Saturday, I decided to go to a movie in the evening. My little sister said that she wanted to go with me because she was bored at home. When we got to the theater, a lot of people 21 there to buy tickets. I saw a friend in the crowd, so I walked up and talked to him for a while. When we finished talking, I found my sister was gone! I 22 her name loudly and looked for her for thirty minutes. Everyone was looking at me. Finally, I found my sister in a toyshop near the theater. She was playing happily there.

We 23 the movie that night and went home early. I have learned from this experience to be more careful if I have to take my sister out with me again.

Karen was a good basketball player. She was the star of the school team and she was very proud of herself. One day a new student, Linda, came to Karen's school. Linda was also good at playing basketball, so she was asked to 24.

Two months later their team was playing an important game. The new student, Linda, kept making good shots. Karen felt unhappy. She wanted people to know 25; she wanted to be noticed. So she tried very hard to score baskets.

The coach stopped the game and told Karen that if a player only wants to show off, she might 26. Karen did not listen. After she went back to the game, she did score several baskets. But their team lost the game in the end.

What do you think is beautiful? Some people believe that long necks are pretty, and some people think full lips look good. Being heavy is thought to be beautiful, too, by some people who do not have enough food. And now it is very popular to be thin. But remember, people are born with differences and everyone is special in some way. Lose weight if you are too heavy, but do not lose yourself at the same time.

Kelly is a very special student in my class. Her father is an American, and her mother is a Chinese from Hong Kong. Kelly was born in New York and finished elementary school there. Then the family decided to move to Taiwan because Kelly's father found a new job in Taipei. Kelly could speak only English, but her parents did not send her to a special school for foreign children. They wanted her to study in a regular junior high school and to make friends with the local students.

Kelly has to work very hard at school. English is easy for her, of course. Math is OK, too. But Chinese and History are big headaches for her because she cannot read the books in Chinese. She often comes to me, her English teacher, to ask questions about Chinese and History. She is trying very hard, and I believe she will do well in Taiwan.

Welcome to your favorite radio show, "Music Wonderland"! March 21 will be the 300th birthday of Bach, the Father of Music. So this month we are going to have several special programs on this great man of music.

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Germany in 1685. During his lifetime, Bach wrote a lot of music for the church and for his students, but he himself did not keep his own works carefully. Luckily, his second wife copied them and saved them for him. So today we can still remember Bach through his music.

Bach married twice in his life and had 20 children altogether. He was a man who loved his family very much. When his first wife planned to learn the piano, he wrote two music books for her. And he also wrote music for one of his daughters to tell her that too much coffee was bad for her health. I am now going to play a song for you from this interesting Coffee Cantata.

And we will hear more about Bach after the song.