—OK, Dad. If we keep them open, the room will be in a mess.

    Fiona likes to listen to music. She likes to listen to classical music. Now she is listening to Beethoven's Symphony (交响曲) No. 5. The music is about fate knocking on the door. Fate is the unseen power of life. Fate changes our lives. Fate designs our lives. Fiona likes this music. She feels the power of music.

    Suddenly, somebody knocks on her door. She goes to the door and opens it. There is a man at the door. The man is old. He has grey hair and a grey beard (胡须). She doesn't know who the person is. The man says he is her father. She closes the door in front of the man. She stays at the door and thinks. She has a father. But he is dead. She doesn't know the man at the door. She doesn't understand why he says he is her father. She wants to call the police. Just then she can see a photo under the door. The man is giving her a photo. She looks at the photo. She can see herself with a man she doesn't know. It is her because she took many photos when she was a young girl. Is the man who is standing in front of her door her father? She must find the answer.

    She opens the door. She asks the man whether he is lying or not. The man tells her he is telling the truth. She invites him for a cup of coffee. They sit down and drink coffee. They start talking about life. He tells her everything that he knows. She listens. Sometimes she is surprised. Sometimes she cries. Sometimes she laughs. They are listening to Beethoven. This time it is not fate, but her father who is knocking on the door.

    In the town of Lampang in northern Thailand, there is an unusual group of musicians. They play many different (种类) of music-everything from traditional Thai songs to music by Beethoven. Both children and adults love this group. What makes them so (受欢迎的)? Is it their music? Their looks? Yes, it's both of the things, but it's (也) something else: they're elephants.

    These musical elephants started at the TECC (泰国大象保护中心) in Lampang. The TECC protects elephants. It teaches people to understand and love them. And, like many zoos (遍及) the world, the TECC encourages elephants to paint.

    Richard Lair (工作) for the TECC. He loves his job there and knows a lot about elephants. He says some of the animals' paintings are very good. However, in fact, elephants (听见) better than they see. And so he had an idea: if elephants are (聪明的) and they have good hearing, maybe they can play music. To test his idea, Lair and a friend started the Thai Elephant Orchestra. During a performance (表演), the elephants play a number of (乐器), including the drums and the xylophone (木琴).

    But can elephants really make music properly? "Yes," says Lair. "They are very creative." Humans (鼓励) the animals to play, but the elephants make their own songs；they don't just copy their trainers (或者) other people. There are now CDs of the group's music which make money for the TECC. And the music these artists create is pretty amazing.

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