Question

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Can you remember the first piece of music you bought? If you’re in your 20s, it was 1. (probable) a CD. More than ten years ago, you 2. (go) into a music shop and bought it. Then a part of the money went to the band or the singer—that’s 3. musicians made their money.

Nowadays, however, young people in the UK hardly ever go to the music shops. In fact, there aren’t many music shops left there. Now lots of young people would laugh at the idea of 4. (buy) CDs from music shops. They get music from the Internet without paying. Of course it is 5. the law. However, 6. recent survey found that each teenager has about 800 songs on their phone that are from the Internet without paying.

In this case, some young British bands are trying some interesting ways 7. (make) money. In the past bands could make some money from T-shirts, CDs and pictures 8. they need to be more creative now. Rock band Franz Ferdinand keep people 9. (interest) in their toys, bags, books and even shorts with their own brands.

Some of other big names in British music are joining in. Coldplay produces water 10. (bottle) for their new song. If you want snacks, you can check Robbie Williams’s website—it really sells biscuits.

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