Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank:
HISTORY OF MUSIC
Music is found in every known culture, past and present, (1)________ wildly
between times and places. Scientists now believe that modem humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago. Around 50,000 years ago these humans began to disperse from Africa (2)_______ all the habitable (3)__________ . Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form (4)________ music, scientists conclude that music must have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of (5)________ around the world. Consequently, music must have been in existence (6)________ at least 50,000 years and the first music must have been invented in Africa and (7)__________ evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life.
A culture's music is (8)_________ by all other aspects of that culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate, and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music (9)_________ , the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and
(10)_______ all vary between regions and periods. "Music history" is the distinct subfield of musicology and history which studies music (particularly western art music) from a chronological perspective.
1. A. altering B. varying C. changing D. moving
2. A. reaching B.reach C. to reach D. reached
3. A. areas B. continents C. land D. soil
4.A. in B. for C. of D. at
5. A. men B. humans C. human D. people
6. A. in B. at C. of D. for
7. A. then B. so C. now D. finally
8. A. influence B. to influence C. influenced D. influential
9. A. writes B.speaks C. conveys D. expresses
10. A. composer B. composers C. components D. composing
