Unit 5THE BAND THAT WASN’T
Have you ever___1___(want) to be part of a band as a famous singer or __2______(musical)? Have you ever dreamed of ___3___(play) in front of thousands __4___people at a concert, at __5___ everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a __6____(fame) singer like Song Zuying or Lin Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great ___7____(significant) to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?
Many musicians meet and form___8_ band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high-school students, for ___9___ practicing their music in someone’s hours is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to ____10___(passer-by) in the street or subway so _11___they can earn some extra money for __12____(them) or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give ___13__(perform) in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid _14____cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions __15__ copies to become millionaires!
However, there was one band that started ___16_ a different way. It __17___(call) the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were __18__play jokes on each other as well__19__ play music, most of which was based __20____(loose) on the Beatles. The TV organizers___21___(plan)to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put ___22__ advertisement in a newspaper __23____(look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one __24_____was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members __25__the band.
As some of these actor could not sing well enough, they had to rely other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to singing. Anyhow their performances were humorously enough to be copied for clubs in order to get more familiar to them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs wrote by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more seriously about their work, the Monkees started to play and singing their own songs like the real band. Then they produced their own records but started touring and play their own music. In the USA they become even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in mid-1980s. they produced a new record on 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as an real band.
FREDDY THE FROG(II)
Not long after Freddy and the band became famous,they visited Britain on _2___ brief tour.Fans showed their ____2____(devote) by waiting for hours__3__(get) tickets for their concerts.Freddy was now quite ___4__(confidence) when he went into a concert hall.He enjoyed _5___(sing) and all the congratulations afterwards!His most exciting ___6_____(invite) was to perform on a programme __7___(call) "Top of the Pops."He had to go to London,wear an expensive suit and give___8____performance to a TV camera.It felt very strange.But as soon __9___he programme was over,the telephones ___10____ were in the same room started ringing.Everybody was asking __11____ they could see Freddy and his band again. They were __12__(truth) stars.
Then things went wrong.Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere__13____being followed.Even when they__14___(wear) sunglasses or beards people recognized them. Fans found them even when they went into the toilet.They tried to hide in the reading rooms of libraries,but it was _15____(use) .Someone was always there!Their personal life was__16_____(regular) discussed by people who did not know them but talked as if they ___17___(be) close friends. At last,__18____(feel) very upset and sensitive,Freddy and his band to which they were never to return,and went back to the lake.
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