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Nội dung: <blockquote data-quote="Butchi" data-source="post: 92096" data-attributes="member: 7">The People's Choices? 'Twilight,' Depp, Swift and MoreHướng dẫn: Tải bài nghe, nghe và phát hiện từ cần điền vào chỗ trống. Muốn xem đáp án thì bôi đen chỗ trống.[MP3]https://server1.vnkienthuc.com/files/3/Media/se-am-awards-gates-taylor-07jan10.mp3[/MP3] Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we play music by America's "ambassador of jazz," Billy Taylor, who died last week in New York ... We also [A]answer a question[/A] about business leader and aid donor Bill Gates ... But first a report on the People's Choice Awards held Wednesday in Los Angeles. People's Choice Awards Stars  of music, movies, and[A] television [/A]appeared Wednesday night for the  thirty-seventh yearly People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles. It is the  only major awards event in America where fans decide who takes home a  prize. Chris Cruise tells about the show and some of the winners. CHRIS  CRUISE: The first People's Choice Awards show was in nineteen  seventy-five. The Gallup company decided the winners by [A]public opinion  [/A]studies. For thirty years, the People's Choice Awards were decided this  way. But the Internet has brought the awards ceremony into the  modern age. The "people" began making their choices directly on the Web  in two thousand five. Actress Lisa Edelstein playfully honored  that process in her [A]acceptance[/A] speech at the awards ceremony. She won  for favorite TV drama actress for her role as Dr. Cuddy on the show  "House." She thanked, by name, Twitter voters whose Twitter names she  really enjoyed. All included "Lisa" or "Cuddy" or "Stein" in some part  of their online name. [A]Conan O'Brien[/A] expressed true thankfulness to  the fans who voted him favorite talk show host. He said they made what  could have been a terrible year the best one of his life. Last year, NBC  television [A]officials[/A] dismissed O'Brien from his new job as host of "The  Tonight Show" so that former host Jay Leno could return to it. Now,  O'Brien has a new show on the cable television station TBS. Johnny  Depp won favorite movie actor for the second [A]straight [/A]year. However,  the real win for him seemed to be receiving the award from country music  star Taylor Swift. He told the singer: "My daughter said if I didn't  say 'hi' to you I'd be in trouble, so 'hi' from my daughter." Swift  immediately waved back. Taylor Swift won an award herself. She was voted favorite country artist. "The  Twilight Saga: Eclipse" did very well at the People's Choice Awards. It  won the favorite movie and the [A]favorite drama movie awards[/A]. The  three main actors won favorite on-screen team. And Kristen Stewart, who  plays Bella, won favorite movie actress. Stewart received cheers when  she noted that she and her co-stars were currently shooting another  "Twilight" movie. But she said it was a little strange to be at the[A]  awards ceremony[/A]. "I was a vampire this morning in Baton Rouge," she said. Bill Gates This week our listener question comes from Cambodia. Yin Chao wants to know how Bill Gates became [A]so rich and successful[/A]. Bill  Gates is one of the founders of the software company Microsoft and one  of the richest people in the world. He was born in nineteen fifty-five  in Seattle, Washington. He attended Harvard University in Massachusetts.  But he left after three years without [A]graduating[/A]. In nineteen  seventy-four, while he was still at Harvard, he started Microsoft with  his friend Paul Allen. It would become the largest [A]software company[/A] in  the world and one of the most powerful and influential companies in  history. Microsoft invented many [A]computer programs[/A] that have been  used in homes, offices and schools around the world. They include the  MS-DOS operating system, the Windows [A]operating system[/A] and the Internet  Explorer browser. These programs revolutionized the way people use  computers and search for [A]information[/A] on the Internet. Bill Gates  made many smart [A]business decisions[/A]. One of the best decisions was to  keep ownership of the software he had written. Many computer experts  believed that hardware was more important than software, but Gates did  not agree. And time has [A]proven[/A] him correct. Bill Gates was  Microsoft's [A]largest shareholder[/A]. At the age of thirty-one, he became a  billionaire. By nineteen ninety-nine, reports said he was worth about  one hundred billion dollars. But by two thousand two, the price of his  Microsoft stock had dropped. He was worth "just" fifty-three billion  dollars. However, that was still enough to keep him at the top of Forbes  magazine's list of the [A]world's richest people[/A]. Many people  respect Bill Gates but some do not like him. They believe he hurt other  businesses so he could be successful. The United States government and  the European Union believed Microsoft had too much power and too large a  portion of the [A]software market[/A]. The United States brought [A]legal action[/A]  against the company. The EU fined the company hundreds of millions of  dollars. In two thousand eight, Bill Gates stopped running  Microsoft but remained as chairman. He continues working with the Bill  and Melinda Gates Foundation which has given billions of dollars for  health and [A]education programs[/A] around the world. Bill Gates has  been described as demanding, competitive and aggressive. He said he  became successful because he worked hard to make his [A]dreams come true[/A].  He also said it is important to work with smart people and to think  about where you want to be in a few years. And, he said, you should  never stop learning. Billy Taylor America  lost one of its greatest jazz musicians last week. Pianist, composer and  educator Billy Taylor died of heart failure December twenty-eighth in  New York City. He was eighty-nine. Faith Lapidus has more about the man  and his music. Billy Taylor played jazz and wrote jazz. He taught  about it in classrooms and to audiences live, and on television and  radio broadcasts. He was also known as an international ambassador of[A] jazz[/A] . He traveled around the world setting up jazz workshops, programs  and shows. But Billy Taylor also made simply great music. Here is a  Billy Taylor Trio performance recorded in nineteen eighty-eight in the  former Soviet Union. It is from the album "White Nights and Jazz in  Leningrad." The song is called "C-A-G." Billy Taylor was born in  Greenville, North Carolina, but grew up in Washington, D.C. He  considered the city his hometown. He heard great music in his own  [A]neighborhood [/A]at places like the former Howard Theater. He started  playing piano when he was seven. After college in Virginia, Billy  Taylor moved to New York City in nineteen forty-four. He began playing  music with many jazz greats, [A]including[/A] Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday  and John Coltrane. Here is Billy Taylor performing "I'll be Seeing You" with singer Nancy Wilson. In  nineteen sixty-four Billy Taylor was worried about the state of jazz.  He did not think enough young people were hearing it, playing it or  learning about it. He thought some free concerts around the Harlem area  of New York City would help. So, he set up Jazzmobile. More than  forty-five years later, Jazzmobile concerts continue in New York City,  Washington, D.C. and in New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. Billy  Taylor received many awards during his more than seventy years in music.  They include the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor the [A]American  government [/A]gives to artists. Billy Taylor said playing piano and performing were most important to him. BILLY  TAYLOR: "Everything that I've done stems from those two things; the  fact that I love to play the piano and I love to [A]perform[/A] for people." I'm Doug Johnson. Our program was written by Chris Cruise and Caty Weaver, who also was our [A]producer[/A]. If  you have a question about American life, write to <a href="mailto:mosaic@voanews.com">mosaic@voanews.com</a>.  We might answer your question on this show. So please [A]include [/A]your name  and country. Join us again next week for AMERICAN MOSAIC, VOA's radio magazine in Special English. </blockquote>

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