II. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with one of these words taken from the reading

I. Answer these multiple-choice questions to see how well you understood the reading.

1. Which statement best describes what the reading says about the instruments used to play World Music?

(A) They are always used to accompany human voices.

(B) They are all some form of stringed instruments.

(C)They include both regional instruments and international instruments.

(D) They are primarily of African origin.

2. Which of these might be held in Australia, South Africa, or Mexico?

(A) The World Sacred Music Festival

(B) The WOMEX Festival

(C) The WOW Festival

(D) The WOMAD Festival

3. Who primarily attended the Empress of Russia meeting?

(A) Famous World Music artists

(B) Music industry executives from the U.K.

(C) A group of friends from Islington

(D) Music store owners from all over the world

4. Why did the executives at the Empress of Russia meeting not choose the name Ethnic Music?

(A) There was already a form of music known by this name.

(B) That name was not suggested at the meeting.

(C) It was not considered a very interesting name.

(D) That name excluded many types of music.

5. What does the author say about the term World Music?

(A) It is older than the musical category called World Music.

(B) It is not a very descriptive term.

(C) It was invented at the Empress of Russia meeting.

(D) It is no longer in common use.

6. From what country was the first World Music group that accompanied Paul Simon?

(A) Peru

(B) South Africa

(C) Burma

(D) Madagascar

7. Which of the following is not true about the musician Peter Gabriel?

(A) He established an important music festival.

(B) He is currently a member of the band Genesis.

(C) He opened a studio where World Music is recorded.

(D) He has gone on tours with World Music artists.

8. Which of these is a synonym for Traditional World Music?

(A) Juju Music

(B) World Fusion

(C) Roots Music

(D) Tropical Music

9. Which of these would be considered a form of Crossover World Music?

(A) A combination of classical and rock music

(B) Traditional Greek folk songs

(C) A mixture of jazz and traditional North African Arabic music

(D) German pop singers performing French pop songs

10. Which is not mentioned as being part of the recording carried by Voyager 2?

(A) Sounds made by animals

(B) Spoken greetings in many languages

(C) Rock music

(D) Sounds of rush hour traffic

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1) Guttenberg’s invention of the printing press was a ____________________ event. It changed history in many ways.

2) The capital of my country is a very ____________________ place. You can buy Italian clothes and French perfume. You can see American movies and eat foods from all over the world.

3) I like many types of movies, but my favorite ____________________ is science fiction films.

4) Tim went into the used-book store just to ____________________ through the old books, but he found a rare first edition of a Hemingway novel that was worth over $1,000.

5) The Nobel Prize in literature is probably the most ____________________ award a novelist can win.

6) The country now known as the Congo was ____________________ known as Zaire.

7) Juan was unable to attend the meeting, but he sent his ____________________ to everyone.

8) Before people can join this club, they must go through an ____________________ ceremony.

9) TransPacific Airlines is ____________________ with Pan Asian Airways next month. The combined airlines will be known as Pan Pacific Air.

10) Unlike people in the United States, people in Canada ____________________ the Thanksgiving holiday in October.

11) In most forms of music, ____________________ instruments such as drums provide the beat.

12) Some people believe that a flying saucer piloted by an ____________________ crew crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

III. These statements come from the reading «The World of World Music». Read each statement and then answer the questions that follow.

World Music is perhaps the broadest and most cosmopolitan musical category ever created. This genre includes some of the world's oldest music and some of the newest.

1. The word cosmopolitan has about the same meaning as …

(A) fascinating.

(B) well known.

(C) international.

2. Find the word in the statement that has the same meaning as genre.

World Music may feature only human voices, or it may be played on instruments as diverse as the jun-jun (a Nigerian «talking drum»), the didgeridoo (a wind instrumen played by Australian Aborigines), the saz (a Turkish lute), and the kandili (a Lithuanianlap harp).

3. Diverse is close in meaning to the word …

(A) varied.

(B) exotic.

(C) pleasing.

They discussed how to increase interest in traditional and international music, anc they decided to come up with one generic name that identified both types.

4. A generic name is a …

(A) new name.

(B) general name.

(C) name that is hard to forget.

The executives rejected Ethnic Music because it sounded too academic and boring. The term Roots Music was thought to exclude nontraditional music, while the term International Pop excluded more traditional music. World Music was chosen, in the words of Ian Anderson, a participant at the meeting, «because it seemed to include the most and exclude the least».

5. Find an antonym for rejected.

Some World Music artists have gotten a boost from Western musicians.

6. If artists have gotten a boost from Western musicians, they have …

(A) been strongly influenced by those musicians.

(B) received support from those musicians.

(C) worked closely with those musicians.

In 1970, Paul Simon introduced millions of people worldwide to the haunting music of the Andes in his song «El Condor Pasa». Simon was backed up on this song by the Peruvian group «Los Incas». In 1986, he recorded the album Graceland. Accompanied by the South African band «Ladysmith Black Mumbazo», Simon introduced his listeners to the exciting sounds of South African music.

7. Haunting music is …

(A) frightening.

(B) unforgettable.

(C) complicated.

8. Find another word that has about the same meaning as the term backed up.

This type combines traditional music with another form. Often it combines traditional music with Western music, like the Juju Music of Nigeria, which marries ethnic West African music and Western pop.

9. Find a synonym for combines.

There are even more unusual combinations. For instance, the group «Celtic Salsa» blends the music of Scotland with the rhythms of Latin American dance music.

10. Find another synonym for combines.

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