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Music has long been a universal form of communication throughout history. Early Indian music was one of the first to be written down, allowing for the study of music's history. While music plays an important social role, it also provides personal benefits to individuals based on their moods and situations. The development of recording technology, from the phonograph to newer devices, allowed music to be experienced by millions of people within just a few decades and transformed how music is accessed, with the internet providing even greater availability and options.

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Music has long been a universal form of communication throughout history. Early Indian music was one of the first to be written down, allowing for the study of music's history. While music plays an important social role, it also provides personal benefits to individuals based on their moods and situations. The development of recording technology, from the phonograph to newer devices, allowed music to be experienced by millions of people within just a few decades and transformed how music is accessed, with the internet providing even greater availability and options.

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From paragraph 1:

1 (a) Why, according to the writer, is music a ‘universal’ form of communication?


Music is a universal form of communication, cutting across all periods of history and all regions
of the planet.

(b) According to the writer, what probably inspired human beings to produce music?
Human beings were probably inspired to produce music by the sounds they heard in the world
of nature, like birdsong and animal cries, which formed the background of their daily existence.

(c) What feature of early Indian music provides ‘a beginning for a study of the history of music’?
Early Indian music was written down which provides ‘a beginning for a study of the history of
music’.

(d) Apart from the role that music has played in the ‘social life of the community’, what is the
other important function of music?
It has the power to touch individuals according to the moods and situations in which they find
themselves, people have also always found music to be useful on a personal level.

From paragraph 2:
2 (a) Why would the soldiers be ‘fearful’ at first?
Because they were approaching enemy soldiers.

(b) Why would the conversations between the soldiers be ‘limited’?


Because there was a language barrier i.e. they speak different languages.

(c) Pick out and write down the single word which shows that the Christmas Truce was not
planned.
Spontaneously

(d) What, according to the writer, has the Christmas truce ‘come to represent’? Answer in your
own words.
It has come to represent bravery and strength of human beings through hardship and problems.

From paragraph 3:
3 (a) Why did the phonograph mark the beginning of the recording industry?
Because phonograph was a machine which played back sounds.

(b) In what two ways was the rush to invent other recording devices ‘chaotic’? Number your
answers (i) and (ii).
(i) These inventions often overlapped.
(ii) Inventors were frequently involved in angry disputes to be acknowledged as the official
inventor of some improvement or other.
(c) Recorded music affects millions of people ‘a mere one hundred and fifty years or so’ after its
invention. What does the use of the word ‘mere’ suggest about the writer’s attitude to the effects
of recorded music?
The writer thinks that this is a short time for all this to happen.

From paragraph 4:
4 Why are ordinary people able to visit ‘far-flung holiday destinations’?
Air travel has become more frequent and its inexpensiveness means
that people can attend cultural shows in far-flung holiday destinations.

From paragraph 6:
5 What, according to the writer, is the result when young people are discouraged from playing
musical instruments?
Potential talent of youth will remain undiscovered.

From paragraph 7:
6 (a) Explain in your own words why pop stars ‘are not necessarily the best musicians’.
Because the world of pop music is usually more about appearance than talent or ability.

(b) What, according to the writer, do editors hope to gain by publishing information about pop
stars?
They hope to gain money by publishing information about pop stars.

From paragraph 8:
7 Explain in your own words the ways in which the internet has ‘transformed our experience of
music’.
Increased availability and increased options are the ways in which the internet has ‘transformed
our experience of music’.

8 From the whole passage:


Choose five of the following words or phrases. For each of them give one word or short phrase
(of not more than seven words) which has the same meaning that the word has in the passage.
1. individual: personal
2. moods: emotions
3. investigate: discover
4. negative: harmful
5. advent: invention

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