Model Test 1
Most people hate rock music. While I am not 1 nature an
unreasonable or biased person, two 2 and striking personal
experiences of rock music 3 the past two weeks have persuaded me
that it has become a duty for those of us with enough common 4
to see its potential dangers to point them out. My first
experience - perhaps a 5 one, but highly symptomatic - was the
realization that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was
listening to rock music through headphones, he replied in an 6
loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his 7 . The
second occurred when I went with him to a concert and witnessed
for 8 what these affairs are like.
Till I went to that concert, my first and assuredly my last,
I had always 9 the live-and-let-live attitude that rock music
was simply not my 10 but that other people had every right to en
joy it if it was 11 . But what I saw and heard convinced m e that
we are allowing something very powerful to take 12 of the younger
generation. In the first place, I noticed 13 collective madness,
brought about by the noise 14 . But secondly, and far more
dangerously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried 15
by the noise, and gave up hisher individuality. 16 the end I
was in the middle of a faceless 17 who clapped and stamped and
jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human
spectacle I have ever had the 18 to witness, and I seriously
believe that 19 our present younger generation would thank us if
we managed to put 20 to it now.
1.〔A〕in〔B〕from〔C〕by〔D〕with
2.〔A〕lifeless〔B〕vivid〔C〕energetic〔D〕lively
3.〔A〕for〔B〕from〔C〕along〔D〕during
4.〔A〕sense〔B〕knowledge〔C〕idea〔D〕feeling
5.〔A〕major〔B〕minor〔C〕main〔D〕subordinate
6.〔A〕unreasonably〔B〕unattractively〔C〕unfairly
〔D〕unnaturally
7.〔A〕listening〔B〕ear〔C〕hearing〔D〕mind
8.〔A〕myself〔B〕himself〔C〕ourselves〔D〕themselves
9.〔A〕adapted〔B〕adopted〔C〕adjusted〔D〕admired
10.〔A〕belief〔B〕desire〔C〕appetite〔D〕taste
11.〔A〕theirs〔B〕ours〔C〕mine〔D〕his
12.〔A〕possession〔B〕notice〔C〕care〔D〕the place
13.〔A〕such〔B〕the〔C〕any〔D〕a
14.〔A〕standard〔B〕level〔C〕pollution〔D〕grade
15.〔A〕out〔B〕off〔C〕along〔D〕on
16.〔A〕At〔B〕By〔C〕In〔D〕Ab out
17.〔A〕gang〔B〕swarm〔C〕crowd〔D〕throng
18.〔A〕fortune〔B〕luck〔C〕hardship〔D〕misfortune
19.〔A〕with time〔B〕on time〔C〕in time t o come〔D〕in no time
20.〔A〕a stop〔B〕the hand〔C〕our minds〔D〕a word
Key to Model Test 1
1.〔C〕2.〔B〕5 3.〔D〕4.〔A〕.〔B〕6.〔D〕7.〔C〕8.〔A〕9.〔B〕10.〔D〕
11.〔A〕12.〔A〕13.〔D〕14.〔B〕15.〔C〕16.〔B〕17.〔C〕18.〔D〕19.〔C〕20.〔A〕
