Exercise 7: Choose the best answer to complete the following passage.

How The Beatles get together and became the best-selling band of all time

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was (1) ________________ to imagine a band hailing from the relatively poor northwest port city of Liverpool, England, could get a (2) ________________ in the thriving London music scene of the south, let alone (3) ________________ their eventual homegrown success to a world eagerly opening up to the counter-culture movement of the ’60s and the burgeoning phenomenon that (4) ________________ rock ’n’ roll.

A fateful meeting (5) ________________ two music-loving teenagers in 1957 is where it all began. Sixteen-year-old rhythm-guitarist Lennon, the son of a merchant seaman, was performing with the Quarrymen, a skiffle (folk music blended with jazz or blues) band booked to perform at events at a church fete in Woolton, Liverpool. While setting up their (6) ________________ for the evening performance, the band’s bass player introduced Lennon (7)  ________________ a classmate, 15-year-old McCartney, who would join in on a couple of numbers that night and soon would be offered a (8) ________________ spot in the Quarrymen.

1. A. challenging         B. difficult                  C. boring                     D. exhausting

2. A. play                    B. hand                       C. career                      D. work

3. A. import                 B. share                       C. open                        D. export

4. A. called                  B. is called                  C. was called               D. was calling

5. A. among                B. for                           C. between                  D. with

6. A. instruments         B. tools                        C. guitar                      D. strings

7. A. for                      B. about                      C. to                            D. at

8. A. forever                B. permanent               C. regular                    D. often