人教版高中英语book2unit5课文填空

THE BAND THAT WASN’T

importance, attach ,pretend, appreciating

Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and ____________ your music? Do you sing karaoke and _________ you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Lin Huan? To be honest, a lot of people _________great _________to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?

rock, advertisemen,t organizers, based

There was one band hat started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was _________loosely on the beatles. The TV _________ had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an ________ in a newspaper looking for _________ musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

broke up ,broadcasts ,pretended, familiar,

touring, reunited, celebrated ,former

As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the _________they just _________to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous enough to be copied by clubs in order to get more _________with them. Each week on TV, the Mondees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started _________and play their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band _______ ______about 1970, but happily the _________in the mid-1980s. they produced a new record in 1996, with which they _________their _________time as a real band.