“Without music, life would be a mistake,” a famous German philosopher(哲学家)Friendrich Nietzsche said over a century ago. Music is a (A) big part of our lives. But in recent years, some US schools have cut music classes to control budgets(预算).

For example, Chicago public schools hurt arts education when it fired(解雇)over 1000 teachers. Among (B) them, 10 percent of the teachers taught art or music, according toThe Washington Times.

In fact, this is not just a problem in the US. In other ___(C)__, such asChinaand Britain, music class is not thought to be as important as classes like science, math and history. That’s partly because music is not seen as a very important life skill, and it doesn’t use an exam system(体系). (D)许多学生忙于作业, so parents and students choose to focus on subjects that are tested more often.

However, learning music is beneficial (有益的) in many ways.

Playing music is not as (E) simple as it looks, according to Kenneth Guilmartin of Music Together, an early childhood music development program. (F)When making music, you need different abilities to work together. For example, when playing the piano, people see music notes and decode(解码)them in their brains. They also use their fingers to make sounds. You need to deal with all these things at the same time,

Music has a special connection with science as well. You can see that many __(G)___ are good at playing music: Einstein played the violin and German physicist Max Planck was talented in playing the piano.