JOHN TAKES ……….HIS MOTHER IN MANY WAYS. THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR.KỸ N...

70. John takes

……….

his mother in many ways. They are very similar.

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PART 1: READING (2 pts - 0.1/ each)

Task 1: GUIDED CLOZE TEST

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank in the following passage.

All life is sound. We are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises (71) ________ by

nature and everything in it. For thousands of years man has been speaking and singing, and (72)

________ his wonderfully constructed ear, perceiving sounds and noises, although they are but a

small part of the inconceivable wealth of sounds filling the universe. Children everywhere and

without (73) ________ are born with musical abilities with voices, and with hearing. The difference

lies (74) ________ in what they do with these gifts. That (75) ________ 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 to hear (76) ________ the soft bubbling of the water,

the roll of thunder, the whistling and rustling of leaves in the wind and (77) ________ knows how

many other audible manifestations of nature. Man was born (78) ________ a world of sound.

Thunder filled him with fear and became a symbol of supernatural (79) ________. In the roar of the

wind he heard the voices of demons. Dwellers at the seashore (80) ________ the temper of the gods

by the sound of the waves. Religious rites and music were inseparable at the dawn of humanity.