EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) having an effect on others ____________
b) connect two different concepts (phrase) ____________
c) an important discovery or advance _____________
d) (of music) without singers ______________
e) one that comes before another ______________
f) happen without too much effort {phrase) ______________
g) make faultless ______________
h) a sign or effect of an illness or medical problem _______________
i) something that makes you unable to use your body or part of your body properly___________
j) increasingly ______________
k) apparently ______________
EXERCISE 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
1. Perhaps the biggest problem in Beethoven's life was
A) the gradual loss of his hearing over a period of about twenty years
B) the fact that he had to respond in writing to the questions of his friends
C) when he lost his two brothers and wrote the "Heiligenstadt" for them
D) his sudden and unexpected deafness in the early nineteenth century
E) the fact that he was always being compared to the superior Mozart
2. Unlike Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
A) Beethoven's music was loved by all sorts of people
B) Beethoven wrote music that greatly affected people
C) Beethoven refused to perform uncorrected music
D) Beethoven's music was never intended to be sung
E) Beethoven had to work very hard to write his music
3. Beethoven's music is said to
A) have brought about the end of the classical period of music
B) have had a great influence on the works of the composer Mozart
C) be among the most romantic music ever composed
D) have started a new generation of instrumental love songs
E) have served as a connection between two different periods of music
2. Speaking task. Speak about Thomas Edison’s investigating skills.
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