8th form "Music" Writing / Test

I. Choose the correct word to complete the sentences:

1. The Ukrainian people are very musical. It's _____ to separate them from music.

2. The Ukrainians are born with music and live with it. The _____ features of the Ukrainian culture are dances and songs.

3. The Ukrainian musical culture has ____ roots in the ancient Slavonic music.

4. As a result, most of music and dance ____ with the folk calendar, harvest and life-cycle events.

5. Many life-cycle songs, especially wedding songs, ____ on the dance rhythms.

6. Ukrainian folk music ____ on the violin, tsymbaly, kobza, bandura, torban and bagpipes.

7. It's impossible ____ Ukraine and Ukrainians without singing.

8. If you want to know the soul of the Ukrainians you ____ listen to their songs.

9. All people's sorrows and joys, wittiness and humour, courage and _____ love to their native land are in their songs.

10. Ukraine gave ____ talented singers, musicians and composers to the world.

11. We know a lot of songs ____ by the Ukrainian people.

12. So Ukrainians posses a ____ repertoire of folk songs and singing is an important part of their culture.

II. Find the correct forms of the verbs:

13. If you want to go to a concert hall with us, you ____ to join us at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

14. If my brother ____ tickets, we shall go to the concert on Sunday.

15. I shall definitely go to the stadium to see the concert of my favourite rock group if they ____ to our town next month.

16. If your mum forbides you, you ____ to the concert with us.

17. My suster said that she ____ the concert of that group before.

18. My classmates told me that they ____ a new CD at that time the day before.

19. Jane says that she ____ jazz to any other kind of music.

20. Tom said that he would buy ____ CD at the record store _____.