Question

Evelyn glennie was born in 1965 and grew up on a Farm near Aberdeen

in Scotland. She loved playing music and her ambition was to become a

solo percussionist .She started having problems with her ears and begin to

lose her hearing. By the time she was 12 she was deaf. She couldn't hear

at all. Evelyn became very angry it seemed to her that she would never

fulfill her dream of being a great musician.

After a while Evelyn stop being angry and instead found ways of

adapting her playing to suit her deafness. At the age of 16 she became the

first deaf student at the Royal Academy in London. She went on to make

lots of CDs and is now famous for being the world's only full-time solo

percussionist. Evelyn like to play unusual instruments and has over a

thousand instruments some of which she has made herself. She likes to

play with musicians from all over the world and requests composes to

create music especially for her. An example of this is a piece which was

composed for her by the jazz composer Diango Bates, for which kitchen

pots and pans were used as instruments. Her 16 solo albums (including 12

on the RCA or BMG label) have reached remarkably diverse public as

have her numerous collaborations with musicians from the non-classical

world.

Glennie contends that hearing is a form of touch and that everyone

whether deaf or not processes sound in an individual way. When Evelyn

performs she doesn't wear shoes or socks. This is to enable her to feel the

music through the floor and her body. Usually, percussionists play at the

back of the orchestra Evelyn place at the front so that she can lip-read

signals from the conductor. Glennie has said that she doesn't want an

operation to cure her deafness ; she likes being who she is and doesn't

want to change the way she works. Like many other courageous people

she tries hard to help others. She has helped many deaf children by giving

them an opportunity to learn a musical instrument.

1 What was glenny, s ambition

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Wambition

2 Why did she become very angry

3 What is she now famous for?
4 Why does she not wear shoes or socks when she performs

5 Why did glennie refused to get herself cured

Answer the following by choosing the correct options

6 What is meant by the word ambition in para 1

a) Goal in life

b) hope

c) employment

d) success

7 find the word opposite in meaning to happy in para 1

a) Solo

b) angry

c) hearing

d) helpless

8 What is meant by the word unusual in para 2

a) uncommon

b) unknown

c) employment

d) uncover

9 find the word opposite in meaning to disable in para 3

a) enable

b) retain

c) keep

d) draw

10 Find the synonym of the word 'content'

a) satisfy

b) assert .

c) keep

d) draw​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Evelyn Glennie's ambition is to become a SOLO PERCUSSIONIST.

2. Evelyn become angry because she thought that she could never fulfill her dream of becoming a musician.

3. She is now famous for world’s only full-time SOLO PERCUSSIONIST.

4. She doesn't wear shoes or socks because that enables her to feel the music through the floor and the body.

5. Evelyn likes being who she is and doesn't want to change the way she works that's the reason why Evelyn doesn't want to get cured.

6. a) goal in life.

7. b) angry

8. a) uncommon

9. a) enable

10. a) satisfy