Question

Read the following passage carefully :
We've just left the dinner table,when I hear music coming from my daughter's computer
It surprises me that my daughter Ida is listening to music from a time she refers to as
the very old days. ”What are you playing?" I ask. It’s Phil Collins,” is her prompt reply,
while she shows how, with a few strokes she can download almost any song from the
Internet. Times have certainly been changing since I scratched my first beatles record.
Tactfully, I don't mention that I had bought the record she's listening to before she was
born. The concept of a phonograph record belongs to a bygone age and I don't want to
spoil the pleasure, she'll get from discovering her 'own' new favourite musician.
The music brings memories flooding back I have a sudden urge to bring back my
record collection from the attic where it has mouldered for almost a decade. Only one
thing stops me : my turntable succumbed to the damp air in a cellar where I stored it
for a good ten years. No, I don't care if turntables are ancient technology : I will find
one. And I will restore my long-lost record collection - which took up a good amount
of shelf space - to its former glory. Buying something as uncool as a turntable takes
courage and planning. I find a promising IV. and radio store in the phone book but I
am expecting a mountain of questions from the clerk who will most certainly have been
born and raised after the demise of the turntable.
”A turntable ? Coming right up I" says the young man behind the counter: He disappears
into the store-room and before I can say long-playing record, he's back with a small
cardboard box under his arm. It's too good to be true. An hour later, my acquisition is
in the living room and a respectful atmosphere descends. I've sorted my records into
piles all over the floor. I find a Beatles album.
Behind the wonderful music, now flowing through the loudspeaker, is the unmistakable sound of vinyl. It doesn‘t take long for my twelve-year old son's eagle eye to spot the turntable and he has to try it out. Jonas is technically minded, a child of the computer age, yet I sense a certain reverence as he picks up the tone arm and tries to place it in the middle of the record. Brought up in the CD age how could he know whats wrong ? I say in a soothing voice: ”The starting groove is on the edge of the record.” ”Does it matter which side is up ?” queried my daughter. It does matter,” I replied. Soon we were listening to a Phil Collins number we both like. The generation gap vanishes as the music takes over. I relish the moment to the full and cast a glance at Ida. She‘s relaxed and smiling.

Fill in the following summary using only one word for each blank. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number.
It was a moment of surprise for the author to (a) that his daughter had the same (b)
for music as he had. This brought back (c) of his (d) collection in the attic. Though,
a (e) task, he was (f) in locating a turntable.
Complete the following sentences. Write the answer in your answer sheet against the correct serial number.
(a) Jonas did not know how to handle the turntable as
(b) Music could bridge the generation gap as
(c) The author was reluctant to bring out his turntable from the cellar because
Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct serial number.
(a) What is it that surprises the writer ?
(b) What is a turntable ?

Answer 1

1.1 (a) find
(b) taste
(c) memories
(d) record,
(e) tedious,
(f) successful.
1.2 (a) he was brought up in the CD age.
(b) it is loved by people of all generations.
(c) he feared it would have succumbed to the dam p air in the cellar where it had remained stored for ten years.
1.3 (a) that his daughter is listening to Phil Collins's music who lived times ago.
(b) It is a flat round revolving surface on which gramophone record is placed to be played.

Answer 2

Answer:

Find the word opposite in meaning to lazy