Part V                          Cloze                      (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
It has always been difficult for me to decide whether "popular music" means music written for the people or is simply music that the people like. The same
problem of definition   67   with jazz. So many different   68   of "music have been called jazz at one time or another that it is  69  to say what it really is.
Jazz has always been   70   to be black music but when I first  71  an interest in it, I used to hear white bands playing music that was like Louis Armstrong's in
the 1920s. I found out  72  that they learnt to do this by playing his records  73  until their style was close enough to his for them to  74  him.
Since then white singers   75   Bob Dylan have rediscovered their own folk  76  , instead of borrowing from black roots. But the main changes  77   1960 have been social and technical. One is that young people have more money to spend on  78  at an earlier age than they   79  , so Tin Pan Alley, the  "pop" music industry,   80   at teenage audience.   81  is that electronic equipment has developed to such an   82 that technicians are now capable of mixing sound to produce recordings that are quite different from a  83 performance.
     But the real problem with "pop" music is that Tin Pan Alley has always worked against its being a  84  music of the people. It   85   everything original and natural out of it and   86   it with cheap commercial imitations. As the American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, said: "They've always preferred the second rate songs. They've never wanted to play the good ones. "
67. A) takes
B) exists
C) starts
D) correlates
68. A) groups
B) fields
C) types
D) definitions
69. A) simple
B) free
C) interesting
D) hard
70. A) advised
B) regarded
C) considered
D) agreed
71. A) began
B) started
C) took
D) had
72. A) afterwards
B) hence
C) therefore
D) however
73. A) once again
B) over and over again
C) more and more times
D) the most times possible
74. A) follow
B) imitate
C) honour
D) remember
75. A) as
B) like
C) for example
D) for instance
76. A) achievement
B) glory
C) tradition
D) customs
77. A) before
B) afterwards
C) since
D) during
78. A) television
B) movies
C) books
D) records
79. A) used
B) used to
C) usually had
D) would
80. A) aims
B) agrees
C) shoots
D) flies
81. A) The latest
B) Another
C) The next
D) The following
82. A) extant
B) extension
C) expanse
D) extent
83. A) alive
B) lively
c) live
D) living
84. A) genuine
B) artificial
C) true
D) original
85. A) gets
B) takes
C) draws
D) makes
86. A) alternates
B) changes
C) provides
D) substitutes

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