Most people hate rock music. (31) I am not an unreasonable or biased person (32) nature, two vivid and striking (33) experiences of rock music during the past two weeks have persuaded me that it has become a(n) (34) for those of us with enough common sense to see its (35) dangers to point them out. My first experience—perhaps a minor one, (36) highly symptomatic—was the realization that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music (37) headphones, he replied in an unnaturally loud voice, (38) there was something wrong with his hearing. The second occurred when I went with him to a "concert" and witnessed for myself (39) these affairs are like. Till I went to the concert, I had always (40) the "live and let live" attitude that rock music was simply not my (41) but that other people had (42) fight to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard (43) me that we are allowing something very powerful to take (44) of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, (45) by the noise level. But secondly, and (46) dangerously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried (47) by the noise, and gave up his/her individuality. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless crowd who clapped and (48) and jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human (49) I have ever had the misfortune to witness, and I seriously believe that in time to come our present younger generation would thank us if we managed to (50) a stop to it now.
A. put
B. let
C. form
D. make
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Most people hate rock music. (31) I am not an unreasonable or biased person (32) nature, two vivid and striking (33) experiences of rock music during the past two weeks have persuaded me that it has become a(n) (34) for those of us with enough common sense to see its (35) dangers to point them out. My first experience—perhaps a minor one, (36) highly symptomatic—was the realization that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music (37) headphones, he replied in an unnaturally loud voice, (38) there was something wrong with his hearing. The second occurred when I went with him to a "concert" and witnessed for myself (39) these affairs are like. Till I went to the concert, I had always (40) the "live and let live" attitude that rock music was simply not my (41) but that other people had (42) fight to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard (43) me that we are allowing something very powerful to take (44) of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, (45) by the noise level. But secondly, and (46) dangerously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried (47) by the noise, and gave up his/her individuality. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless crowd who clapped and (48) and jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human (49) I have ever had the misfortune to witness, and I seriously believe that in time to come our present younger generation would thank us if we managed to (50) a stop to it now.
A. over
B. off
C. along
D. out
Most people hate rock music. (31) I am not an unreasonable or biased person (32) nature, two vivid and striking (33) experiences of rock music during the past two weeks have persuaded me that it has become a(n) (34) for those of us with enough common sense to see its (35) dangers to point them out. My first experience—perhaps a minor one, (36) highly symptomatic—was the realization that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music (37) headphones, he replied in an unnaturally loud voice, (38) there was something wrong with his hearing. The second occurred when I went with him to a "concert" and witnessed for myself (39) these affairs are like. Till I went to the concert, I had always (40) the "live and let live" attitude that rock music was simply not my (41) but that other people had (42) fight to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard (43) me that we are allowing something very powerful to take (44) of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, (45) by the noise level. But secondly, and (46) dangerously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried (47) by the noise, and gave up his/her individuality. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless crowd who clapped and (48) and jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human (49) I have ever had the misfortune to witness, and I seriously believe that in time to come our present younger generation would thank us if we managed to (50) a stop to it now.
A. care
B. attention
C. charge
D. possession
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, you might call it—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me and I was hurt. "I can’t use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! " By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man
A. hurt the author’s feeling.
B. gave the author a deep impression.
C. directly led to the invention of ground ball.
D. inspired the author.