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1.

A. She is from Hong Kong.

B. She is familiar with the Hong Kong singers.

C. She is not familiar with the music they are listening to.

D. She enjoys the music they are listening to.

2.

A. Salsa.

B. Any jazz.

C. Fast music.

D. Slow music.

3.

A. Listening to a hip hop CD.

B. Listening with his MP3 player.

C. Downloading music from the Internet.

D. Borrowing a CD from the woman.

4.

A. It is not easy to get tickets for the concert.

B. The orchestra is the best in Europe.

C. Only the man is enthusiastic about the concert.

D. Only the woman is enthusiastic about the concert.

5.

A. He likes classic jazz.

B. He likes the latest jazz.

C. He prefers symphony to jazz.

D. He does not like jazz at all.

6.

A. The man thinks the tickets are inexpensive while the woman thinks they are expensive.

B. The man thinks the tickets are expensive while the woman thinks they are inexpensive.

C. They both think the tickets are expensive.

D. They both think the tickets are inexpensive.

7.

A. It is easy to carry an MP3 player.

B. The sound from a CD player is funny compared with an MP3 player.

C. MP3 players will soon become out of date.

D. CD players will soon become out of date.

8. What has Williams recently said?

A. Music piracy is costing the music industry a lot of money.

B. Music piracy is a good thing.

C. Music piracy promotes the popularity of his songs.

D. Music piracy should be banned.

9. Why is Williams so rich now?

A. He has recently inherited a lot of money.

B. He has benefited a great deal from music piracy.

C. He has got lots of money from the record companies.

D. He has received large donations from his fans.

10. When Williams asked the record companies about the issue of music piracy, what responses did he get from them?

A. They were angry but would not do anything about it.

B. They found themselves helpless.

C. They did not care since they could get lots of money from over-priced CDs.

D. They were angry and were trying to settle the issue in court.

11. What examples of music piracy are mentioned in the passage?

A. Online song-sharing.

B. CD copying.

C. Downloading songs from the Internet.

D. Both A) and B).

12. What is the speaker's tone about music piracy?

A. Neutral.

B. Negative.

C. Positive.

D. Sarcastic.

13. Carols did not begin to be linked with Christmas until the middle of the nineteenth century.

14. The words and music of Silent Night were written by two different people.

15. The person who wrote the music for Silent Night included guitar accompaniment.

16. The truth was that the organ broke down, so the children sang the carol accompanied by a guitar.

17. Silent Night has been turned into many languages and become well known in the world.

Part 4 Long dialogs and multiple choice questions

18. When asked what her favorite golden oldie is, what is the woman's reaction?

A. She prefers to answer a question about her favorite day.

B. She prefers to select her favorite song from the sixties.

C. She finds it difficult to answer.

D. She finds it easy to answer.

19. What narrow scope does the man decide on for the woman to choose her favorite songs from?

A. Her favorite songs in the sixties.

B. Her favorite pop songs in the seventies.

C. Her favorite Rock songs in 1956.

D. Her favorite Beatle song from 1965.

20. What does the man ask the woman to look at before choosing her favorite song?

A. The hits chart from 1965.

B. The hits chart from the sixties.

C. The top Beatles song list of 1956.

D. The top Rolling Stones songs of the seventies.

21. What makes the man think that everyone likes the song "Yesterday"?

A. Every time he goes to a karaoke bar, he finds it the only English song available.