“There is a nice, pretty girl, in a far away land.” Do you know this Chinese __________ song by Luo Bin Wang? It is about a young man _______ to be with a beautiful girl in a far-away land. In listening to it, I had a great _____ to escape from this so-called western civilization and __________ to that charming far-away land. It is said that Luo Bin Wang, __________ the capital, Beijing, spent over the last 40 years of his life ____________ the songs and lifestyles of the peoples in the Qing Hai area of China, an area _________people live a nomadic (游牧的) life,___________ goats and sheep. As a young man, he __________all over north west China and became ________with the local folk songs. His understanding of music ___________ him to such a conclusion that Chinese folk songs were among the ____________ in the world. He undertook to collect and __________ hundreds of these traditional songs. Many of his more than seven hundred folk songs have become the favorites of his nation. Luo Bin Wang is ________ considered the King of Chinese Folk songs. His work helped to preserve and to promote a very special part of China’s social _______________, and he has been thought _______ of in China. He devoted himself to uncovering and presenting the music of the people. Through his ______,many of the old songs have been preserved for future generations to ______ , not only to his native country but also to the whole world. Without his work, these songs might have been lost perhaps temporally again forever. ____________ in a way, Wang, together with his songs, _________ to China, and the world as well.