MY BROTHER HAS GOT A (A) TERRIBLE HEADACHE
10/ My brother has got a (A) terrible headache. He tried (B) taking an aspirin, (C) but it (D) doesn’t
help.
VIII/ Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it:
Music, artful arrangement of sounds (1) _______ time. This definition is obviously very broad,
but a narrower one would exclude (2) _______ much. Music is part of virtually every culture on (3)
_______, but it varies widely among cultures in style and structure. Definitions of music can (4)
_______ dramatically over a short time, as they have across the world during the 20
th
(5)
_________
.
Can music exist without (6) _______? Some philosophers argue that music should be defined as
a kind of “mental (7) _______” and that the physical aspects of sound are simply by-products of this
image. If you (8) _______ you can have a musical experience by imagining the sound of a piece of
music, then you think (9) _______ can exist without sound. But most musical experiences involve
producing or (10) _______ to physical characteristics of sound such as pitch and timbre (quality
comparable to texture or color in sight).
Is the tape-recorded sound of a large metal-stamping machine music? Are 4 minutes (11)
_______ 33 seconds of silence music? Is the activity of reading a (12) _______ of hundreds of
seemingly unrelated objects, activities, and states of mind music? Each of these “(13) _______”, as well
as many other sounds (or nonsounds), has been copyrighted (14) _______ a musical composition,
performed, and recorded in the 20
th
century. One of the legacies of 20
th