Reading Shanghai’s highways fill in the blanks 6
51. Exercise
brick | wonder | booming | Skyscraper | wander | wasting |
Away from the rumble of Shanghai’s highways and the Cacophony of the shopping districts stroll down side streets filled with rows of tall ……………………. houses. In the early evening or on a weekend morning, you’ll hear the sound of classical music drifting from a piano, played by a 10-year old or a grandmother in her seventies………….. down another a alley toward drab high rises and you’ll hear Beethoven or Mozart flowing from a violin or perhaps a cello according or flute.
In china Classical music is ………………………. as mightily as the 182 OVerture. It’s fortissimo in Shanghai, home to China’s oldest orchetra, forte in Beijing and other lively cities and on crescendo in farther flung areas. Commanding y100-200 per hour, private music teachers in Shanghai can readily earn more than five times the average per capita montly income.
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