A. ERADICATE B. CHARACTER C. MALARIA D. SPECTACULARREAD THE FOLLOWI...

45.a. eradicate b. character c. malaria d. spectacularRead the following passage and mark the letter a, b, c, or d on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks. All life is sound. We are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises (46)…………..by nature and everything in it.For thousands of years man has been speaking and singing, and (47)………….…his wonderfully constructed ear,perceiving sounds and noises, although they are but a small part of the inconceivable wealth of sounds filling theuniverse. Children everywhere and without (48)………..are born with musical abilities with voices, and with hearing. The difference lies (49)………inwhat they do with these gifts. That (50)…………....according to temperament upbringing nationality, and time.Nature itself is full of sound, full of music. Musical sounds existed millions of years before there was a human ear tohear (51)……….…: the soft bubbling of the water, the roll of thunder, the whistling and rustling of leaves in the windand (52)…………..….knows how many other audible manifestations of nature. Man was born (53)…………...a world ofsound. Thunder filled him with fear and became a symbol of supernatural (54)…….………… In the roar of the windhe heard the voices of demons. Dwellers at the seashore (55)………….…the temper of the gods by the sound of thewaves. Religious rites and music were inseparable at the dawn of humanity.