VII:
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 34 to 43 .
THE PERFORMING ARTS
In the past, British children were frequently encouraged to try out their performing skills for the benefit of adults. They did this by reading aloud, acting or ___(40)___ a musical instrument. As they ____ (41)_____ up they were taken to public places of entertainment – the theatre, opera, circus or ballet. They looked forward to these _____(42)_____ with great ____(43)_____ and would remember and discuss what they had seen for many weeks afterwards. But nowadays television and computers ____(44)_____ an endless stream of easily _____( 45)_____ entertainment, and children quickly accept these marvelous _____(46)_____ as a very ordinary part of their everyday lives. For many children, the sense of witnessing a very special live performance is gone forever.
But all is not lost. The ____(47)_____ of a TV set may have encouraged a very lazy response from ____( 48)_____ in their own homes, but the ____(49)____ of those with ambitions to become performing artists themselves does not seem to have been at all diminished. And live performances in public are still relatively popular, albeit with an older, more specialist audience.
Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:
________(40)
Đáp án là D. play + loại nhạc cụ