Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20^th century. In his short life he wrote 1 300 songs and an opera.

    Xian was born in Panyu, Guangdong, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with 2 mother. He began learning to play 3 violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was 4 cheap and badly made that he5not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop 6 and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students7studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he 8, Xian became the school's best student 9 won several prizes for his talents.

    In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan'an 10 music at a college. 11 there were no pianos in Yan'an at that time Xian still wrote 12 of his most important music there, including The Yellow River, his most famous work.

    In May 1940, Xian 13 to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very 14. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness 15 October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian's music, however, lives on in the people's hearts.

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    Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped to 1.

“What are you doing?” asked one of the 2.

    “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the Earth!” one of the brothers answered.

    The older boys began to laugh, telling the brothers that digging a hole all through the Earth was 3.

    After a long silence, one of the diggers 4 a box full of different kinds of insects. He5 the wonderful things to the visitors. Then he said quietly, “Though we can’t dig all the way through the Earth, 6what we’ve found!”

    Their goal was too 7 to reach, but it did lead them to dig. And that is what a goal is for — to lead us to move in the direction we have chosen.

    Not every goal will be fully 8. Not every job will end successfully. Not every dream will be realized. But when you fail, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I’ve found along the way! Look at the 9 things that have come into my life because I tried to do something!”

    We live in the digging. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, and in the end that is 10important.