Most of us who live in a city know what it means to spend 30 minutes in the subway 1) (rush) through corridors and then trying to get into terribly 2) (crowd) trains. well, this guy and this morning were 3) (difference). he stopped at one of the entrances to the station and played six 4) (beauty) bach pieces for about 45 minutes. three minutes after he started, a man noticed him and stopped for a few seconds. a minute later the 5) (music) received his first one dollar tip. the person who was most 6) (interest) was a 3-year-old boy, who really wanted to listen. his mother didn’t let him stay very long, either. in the 45 minutes, 1097 people passed by and only six stopped. the 7) (violin) collected 32 dollars. when he finished playing, nobody noticed and nobody knew that he was joshua bell, one of the best soloists in the world. he was playing a violin worth 3.5 million dollars and had played in a concert two days before where people paid an average of 100 dollars for their seats. the aim of this real-life experiment was twofold. can we notice beauty in an everyday place and at a rather 8) (usual) hour? do we recognize genius in an 9) (expect) situation? and the most troubling question of all: if we miss joshua bell playing bach just because we are not in carnegie hall, how many other things do we miss? ]
2)crowded
3)different
4)beautiful
5)musician
6)interested
7)violonchelist
8)unusual
9)unexpected