Read the passage below and circle the letter next to the word which best fits each

space.
Broadcasting has democratized the publication of language, often at its most imformal,
even undressed. Now the ears of the educated cannot escape the language of the
masses. It (1)_____ them on the news, weather, sports, commercials, and the ever-
prolifering game shows.
This wider dissimination of popular speech amy easily give purists the (2)_____ that
language is suddenly going to hell in this generation, and may (3)_____ the new
paranoia about it.It might also be argued that more Americans hear more correct, even
beautiful, English on TV than ever before. Through telivision more models of good
usage(4)_____ more American homes than was ever possible in other times.
Television gives them lots of(5)_____ English too, some awful, some creative, but that
is not new.
Hidden in this is a (6)____fact : our language is not the special private property of the
language police, or grammarians, or teachers, or even great writers. The (7)____ of
English is that it has always been the tongue of the common people ,literate or not.
English belongs to eveybody: the funny(8)_____ of phrase that pops into the mind of a
farmer telling a story; or the(9)______ salesman’s dirty joke; or the teenager saying,
“Gag me with a spoon” ; or the pop lyric- all contribute, are all as (10)____ as the
torted image of the academic, or theline the poet sweats over for a week.
1.A.circles B. surrenders C.supports D.surrounds.
2.A.thought B. idea C.sight D.belief.
3.A.justify B.inflate C.explain D.idealise.
4.A.render B.reach C.expose D.leave.
5.A. colloquial B.current C.common D.spoken.
6.A.central B.stupid C.common D.simple.
7.A.genii B.genious Cgiant D.generalisation.
8.A.turn B.twist C.use D.time.
9.A.tour B.transport C.travel D.travelling.
10.A.value B.valid C.trustful D.imperfect.
“The best age to start learning the violin is between three and six,” says Margaret
Porter, a violinist and music teacher. “ It is the time when you are learning about the
world”. Margaret, who lives in London, prefers to take pupils at three and four,
although she has made a lot of exceptions for keen five-year-olds. When she started
teaching the violin in 1972, her first class consisted other children's five -year-old
school friends.
Margaret’s pupil has group lessons.Each group has about dozen pupils and each lesson
last an hour, once a fortnight. In addition, each pupil has one individual lesson a week
with her.Parents also have to attend the classes. It is omportant that the parents take
an active interest in the lessons.
From the earliest lessons people learn to play by ear.They do not even try to read
music until they have been playing for several years and for a long time there is a big
difference between their playing and reading the of music.Margaret says that her
method is not supposed to produce great violonists, and always suggests that pupils
who perform particularly wellshould leave and study the violin using more traditional
method.
1.What is the writer trying to do in the text?
A. To explain why Margaret likes teaching the violin.
B. To describe different way of learning the violin.
C.To give advice on how to finda music teacher.
D.To explain why Margaret has a lot of pupils.
2.Why should someone read the text?
A.To discover how Margaret learnt the violin.
B. To learn why it is important to read music.
C.To find out about Margaret’s teaching method.
D.To learn why children should play the violin.
3.What opinion does Margaret have about her best pupils.
A. They ought to find another teacher.
B. They will become great violinists using her method.
C.They could try harder.
D. They take several years to learn to read music.
4. Who were Margaret’s fisrt pupils?
A.Her children.
B. Three and four-year-olds.
C.Her own friends.
D.Her children’s friends.
5.Which of the following would Margaret include in an advertisement for her classes?
A.learn to play the violin with your children- two lessons a week.
B.Watch your children learn to play the violin.
C. Group violin lessons for children- no more than five per group.
D. We’lllook after your children while you learn the violin.