Is classical music still relevant today?

Part 1.- Multiple-cloze

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decided which answers (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

0)   A) defend  B) protest   C) argue    D) preserve

Is classical music still relevant today?

Having listened to this music for more than three decades, I have often had to (0) _A_ DEFEND_ my devotion to classical music against the kind of people who have a very practical (1)___ to life, I have to admit that I have often been faced with legitimate questions and arguments that made me (2)____ my ideas. Over the years, I have been lucky enough to live in different (3)____ of the world. Because of this, I have come to the (4)____ that I belong to a small group of people who believe in artistic principles that have nothing to do with humanity’s desire for success or a more comfortable (5)____. Quite a few people (6)____ that this music belongs to the museum and is of (7)____ only to those who have a particular reason to find out what music was like in the past. In some (8)____ places I have visited, people simply called it western music and dismissed any possible interest for anybody outside Europe.

     1)   A) method             B) means            C) way                 D) attitude

     2)   A) reorder             B) rearrange       C) reorganize       D) reconsider

     3)   A) places              B) parts               C) communities   D) societies 

     4)   A) conclusion       B) assumption     C) decision          D) deduction

     5)   A) presence         B) lifestyle            C) being              D) survival

     6)   A) discuss            B) differ                C) argue             D) disagree

     7)   A) attention          B) attraction         C) influence        D) interest

     8)   A) remote             B) far                   C) apart              D) separate