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THE VIRTUAL CHOIR
Imagine① having the opportunity② to sing together with hundreds of other people while you are at home alone. 【1】 You can do this in a virtual choir. Virtual choir members record themselves while they perform③ alone on video. These videos are uploaded onto④ the Internet, and then they are put together into one video that you can see online — a virtual choir. 【2】Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere — all you need is a video camera and an Internet connection 【3】. You do not even need a studio⑤. A virtual choir helps connect ordinary⑥ people together. Many people do not have close friends or contacts⑦ who have the same interest in music. Many others do not have the chance to join a local choir. A virtual choir enables⑧ them to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community. It has proved⑨ to be a positive influence on the lives of many people. As one virtual choir member said 【4】， “Music helps me to...forget my problems. With music, I become someone else.”
【1】该句为复合句，其中包含由从属连词while引导的时间状语从句，主句为祈使句Imagine having the... other people。
【2】该句中连词and连接两个并列分句；在第二个分句中含有一个由关系代词that引导的定语从句，先行词为one video。
【3】该句主语部分包含了一个省略关系代词that的定语从句，其先行词为all且all作整个句子的主语。
【4】该句为关系代词As引导的定语从句，As在此表示“正如”。
The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer? and conductor? Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre began studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love with? Mozart's classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music 【5】， he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.” He graduated from university in 1995, and then received a master's degree? in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. Over the next 10 years, Whitacre's original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the creation of the virtual choir.
【5】此处过去分词短语Moved by this music作状语，表示原因。
In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance 【6】. His first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”， had 185 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then?， the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon?. Whitacre's next effort? was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage? on 23 July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2,292 young people from 80 countries joined in? to sing Whitacre's song “What If”．
【6】此处为由which引导的非限制性定语从句，先行词为videos。
The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with one voice and thus make the world a better place. 【7】
【7】该句中连词and连接两个并列谓语is和make; for people around the world to sing with one voice作定语，修饰a wonderful way; make the world a better place为“make＋宾语＋宾补”结构，名词短语a better place在此作宾补。
