Question

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It began as a TV show. The musicians of   31________ the band was formed played jokes   32___________    each other as well as played music. Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. The TV organizers  33      (look) for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper  34      (look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one that was good enough. They had to use actors for the other members of the band. Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme   35       the band pretended to sing them.
Their attractive performances  36      (copy) by other groups and their fans supported them fiercely. Each week the group that was called “The Monkees” would play a song or two written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became   37        (serious) about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. They became even more popular than “The Beatles” in the USA and sold even more records. However, the band broke   38          in about 1970, but  39        (unite) in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a  40         (celebrate) of their time as a real band.

Answer 1

31. whom     32. on    33. had looked     34.looking     35. while
36.were copied    37.more serious   38. up      39. reunited      40. celebration

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