PRACTICE TASK 1 READ THE FIRST PART OF THE TEXT ABOUT BEETHOVEN AND FILL EACH GAP WITH A WORD FROM THE BOX

6. Practice Task 1

Read the first part of the text about Beethoven and fill each gap with a word from the box. greatest innovator created prodigy talent distinguished compose performance Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and (1) ... musical figure in the period between the Classical and Romantic eras. Born in 1770, in Bonn, Germany, he was the son of a court musician. His piano (2) ... quickly became evident and he gave his first public (3)... at the age of eight. Beethoven's father wanted to make him a child (4) ... another Mozart. Considered the (5) ... composer of all time, he was a noted (6) ..., combining vocals and instruments in a new way. Beethoven continued to (7) ... even while losing his hearing, and some of his most important works were (8) ... during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear. eLib.vn: Thư viện trực tuyến miễn phí 5 Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. Nowadays, everybody knows Apples and (1) ____ everybody knows that the company was founded by Steve Jobs, an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is (2) ____ recognized as a pioneer in the field of microcomputer revolution. He helped design the first Macintosh computer, (3) ____ a small computer graphics company into Pixar, the company behind Toy Story and The Monster Inc. His countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his (4) ____. Jobs was adopted and raised in San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. In 1972, Jobs attended Reed College from which he (5) ____ in next to no time. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 in order to sell Apple I personal computer. At that moment, he might (6) ____ imagine that only a year later the company tasted impressive victory with Apple II, one of the first highly successful (7) ____ personal computers. (8) ____, in 1985, following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple. After leaving Apple, Jobs took (9) ____ of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer development company which was then bought by Apple. The purchase (10) ____ Jobs to become the company's CEO once again. Steve Jobs died in 2011 after battling with pancreatic cancer (11) ____ nearly a decade. Millions first learned of Job's death on a (12) ____ which had been invented by himself.