Reading -2 /form 8/

How Singing Began

We know that people learned to write long, long ago. For more than 7,000 years people have been writing down their thoughts. But even before people learned to write they could sing! Music began even before writing.

The people of old times drew themselves on rocks. Some of the pictures that preserved show dancers and singers, and also people playing some musical instruments. So our earliest ancestors were fond of music.

How did people learn to sing? What musical instruments did they play? Archaeologists and musicologists give the answer to these questions.

Our ancestors lived in groups because only together they could get their food and defend themselves from wild animals. They learned to make tools and work together.

The group of early men worked together like an orchestra and they usually murmured to each movement of their hand or foot. Without the murmuring (or “singing”) they could not do the work.

Later people learned to make other and better tools and it was not necessary to sing during their work. But singing began, and there are songs in many countries which are probably children of these first work songs.

When man made his earliest tools, he learned to make musical instruments, too. Those pictures on rocks show people playing musical instruments. A very careful analysis of the bones of animals that archaeologists found in a number of ice-age camps show that the men of that time could use them for making sounds. So bones of animals, horns, pieces of wood were man’s first musical instruments. By blowing into horns or bones people could make a very loud sound. They could also make sounds by beating one piece of wood against another or a piece of wood against a stone. People of that time could also use strings and fur to make musical instruments. That was the time when people did not have metal. And yet they could sing and were fond of music.

Додано: 9 травня 2022
Предмет: Англійська мова, 8 клас
Копія з тесту: Reading Comprehension. Grade 8th
Тест виконано: 779 разів
11 запитань
Запитання 1

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

For more than 7,000 years people have been writing down their …

варіанти відповідей

music

stories

thoughts

letters

Запитання 2

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

People could sing before they learned …

варіанти відповідей

to speak

to draw

to read

to write

Запитання 3

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

Some of the pictures on the rocks that preserved show …

варіанти відповідей

dancers and singers

ancient actors

teachers and pupils

fighting men

Запитання 4

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

Our ancestors lived …

варіанти відповідей

in groups

alone

in families

in tribes

Запитання 5

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

The group of early men worked together like …

варіанти відповідей

an ensemble

a company

a rock group

an orchestra

Запитання 6

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

Our ancestors defended themselves from …

варіанти відповідей

enemies

each other

wild animals

invaders

Запитання 7

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

The ancient people could not do the work without …

варіанти відповідей

dancing

murmuring

drawing

fighting

Запитання 8

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

When man made his earliest tools he learned to make …

варіанти відповідей

books

weapons

musical instruments

houses

Запитання 9

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

The pictures on the rocks show people playing …

варіанти відповідей

musical instruments

games

chess

ball

Запитання 10

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

For making sounds the men of ice-age could use …

варіанти відповідей

plants

the bones of animals

birds’ eggs

metal

Запитання 11

Сhoose the correct item to complete the sentence.

Murmuring is …

варіанти відповідей

singing

dancing

playing games

drawing

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