WITHOUT WATER, WE COULDN’T LIVE. (FOR)  IF _________________________...

42: Without water, we couldn’t live. (for)

 If ______________________________________________________________, we couldn’t live.

III. GAP-FILL: Use the words given to fill in the blanks. There are TWO extra words

developed long especially who fans

which brief singers later disapproved

Most people agree that pop music started in the U.S. in the 1950s and that it (43)__________ from black

American music. When it started, it was (44)__________ for young people. In many countries, they liked listening to

it and dancing to it because it was exciting and it was a way of rebelling against their parents’ generation.

Many parents strongly (45)__________ of it. They disliked the way many pop stars looked like and acted. They

thought the music was rubbish and the group couldn’t sing or play their instruments properly. They said that pop

music wouldn’t last (46)__________.

Today, attitudes are different. Many of today’s parents are people (47)__________ loved pop music when

they were young, and still do. As the result of this, pop music is no longer for the young. In addition, some of the stars

whose careers began a long time ago and who are now middle-aged are just as popular today as they were then. Their

original (48)__________ still like them, perhaps because they remind them of when they were young. At the same

time, new generations of young people buy their records and go to their concerts, so pop music was not just a

(49)__________ fashion. All these years (50)__________, it is more popular than ever.

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