Practice Reading 1 – The History of the Guitar - EU-Vietnam Business Network (EVBN)

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[Reading practice]The history of guitar

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

1 Despite differences in _________________ , ‘guit-‘ and ‘

2 Instruments that we would call acoustic guitars have been made and played for approximately __________

3 No one knows the _______________ when the first six-string guitar was made.

4 The _____________ of acoustic guitars have not changed much in 200 years.

5 A ______________ for an electric guitar was issued in the mid-1930s.

6 Les Paul, the well-known ______________ guitarist, was involved in the development of the electric guitar.

7 Most ______________ of the guitar know little about its rich history.

Questions 8–13 – Complete the summary.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Instruments similar to the guitar have been played by musicians for over 8 ________ years. What we know about many of these instruments comes from 9 __________ rather than actual physical examples or music played on them. In some ways, these early stringed instruments were closer to 10 ___________ than the guitar as we know it today. We do have examples of six-string guitars that are 200 years old. However, the 11 ____________ of six -string guitars made by guitar makers (who are also known as 12 ______________ ) before the final decade of the eighteenth century is often open to question.

Although the electric guitar was invented in the 1930s, it took several decades for electric guitars to develop, with the company Rickenbacker playing a major part in this development. Most 13 electric guitars in use today are similar in design to guitars produced by the Fender Musical Instruments Company and the Gibson Guitar Corporation

in the 1950s.