93C 42-63

42. major cities This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for main idea. `Appear in' collates with `a place'. It matches with the fourth paragraph: `Rock bands have sprung up in Beijing and other major cities in the past five or six years.

43. musical chords This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for main idea and candidates have to change the part of speech. After the preposition `of', a noun phrase is used. It matches with the six paragraph: `They hand around the latest Western rock tapes, borrowed form foreign friends, and share guitar chord books. `Guitar cords' is a possible answer, but `musical chords is the best'.

44. restlessness, alienation, and love. This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. It matches the information in the sixth paragraph: `Their songs are seldom political, but convey youthful restlessness, alienation and love.

45. military This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for inference, and candidates have to change the part of speech. It matches with the third paragraph:

China's leadership of octogenarian ex-solders decided long ago that rock was `bewildering and impetuous', leading to drinking drug-taking and homosexuality. `Ex-soldiers' suggests `former military man', `military' is an adjective.

46. message/ thinking This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for inference. `Bewildering and impetuous' is a kind of message or thinking. Candidates have to use their own word.

47. drinking, drug-taking and homosexuality This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information from the passage.

48. officially banned This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for inference. It matches with the lines of the third paragraph:

Without registering, you can't get permission papers, and without permission papers you have no right to perform.

Therefore, the music is not officially banned, the band can go through the procedure of registering.

49. on stage This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for common sense. Bands have to play on stage.

50. official permission This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. A band needs official permission, or permission papers.

51. registering This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for inference. After the preposition `by', a gerund is needed. `By first registering the band' matches with the third paragraph.

52. recording companies This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. It matches with the second paragraph:

The Communist government refuses to register Beijing's twenty or thirty rock bands or permit their music to be broadcast over the mass media. Most recording companies will not touch their songs, which means ambitious groups have to seek out studios in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

As a consequence, the bands cannot perform on radio and television. and recording companies do not want to have anything to do either.

53. legal This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. It matches with the six and seven paragraphs:

Chi Jian, China's most popular rocker and the only one who has been allowed to record in China.

`We'd like to be legal'

Chi Jian is the only legal rocker in China.

54. record This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. Similar to Q53, an infinitive is used .

55./56 police harassment/ financial problem These questions tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. In the fifth paragraph, the writer states:

Money is the real headache. And so is police harassment

Therefore, the band say their two biggest headaches are police harassment and financial problem.

57. haircut This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. In the fifth paragraph, the writer states:

Police in Dalian, a city in northwest China, cut off Xiao's shoulder-length hair when he played there.

This shows that the authorities forcibly gave him a haircut.

58. public concerts 59./60 parties or exhibitions These questions test the candidates' ability of reading for

specific information. In the fourth paragraph, the writer states:

As a result. most concerts are disguised as private parties or modern music exhibitions .

Although they cannot give public concerts, bands do manage to perform by playing at parties or exhibitions.

61. appreciation This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for overall understanding of the passage. With the understanding of the following sentences: with the audience singing along, dancing on the seats, and later pushing and shoving each other for their heroes' autographs.

This suggests the appreciation of the band is similar to that of the West.

62. jumping This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. `Gyrated' in paragraph 1 means `move around in a circle'. They jumped up and down.

In the summary cloze, `with the audience singing alone, jumping on the seats' matches the information in paragraph 1. `Jumping' should be parallel with `singing'.

63. autographs This question tests the candidates' ability of reading for specific information. We can get the information in paragraph 1 as mentioned in Q61.