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When I stand in ___1___ of a painting or sculpture ___2___ a long time and ___3___ my eyes constantly receive the painting. Music, and the perception of abstraction in it, does not work that way. A line of music once sung is ___4___, but is still alive in my mind. The faculty of hearing completes its work very quickly. The voice is both a natural instrument and the vehicle of this abstraction. There is no external transfer of the mind's abstraction, ___5___ does the music emanate from an external source. This gives the voice a personal nature that makes it different from any instrument. This may be the reason why, in India's artistic traditions, the voice has been regarded as music's ___6___ vehicle. The musician or the listener never sees the physical seat of this instrument, the voice box. All ___7___ sees is the movement of the lips, mouth and tongue. ___8___, the music that is born from it conveys an emotion that ___9___ true in the listener's or musician's own being. While music from the voice is very ___10___, it does not speak automatically to everyone.

1. (a) front (b) lack (c) lieu (d) view (e) avert


2. (a) since (b) from (c) for (d) fix (e) erect


3. (a) let (b) dim (c) tired (d) affluence (e) besiege


4. (a) brutal (b) joyous (c) adjure (d) sweet (e) gone


5. (a) Elongate (b) neither (c) impolite (d) Hiatus (e) ineffable


6. (a) Sedulous (b) prime (c) innocuous (d) insolent (e) uncontrolled


7. (a) in (b) rebellious (c) aloof (d) one (e) sacred


8. (a) Even (b) then (c) yet (d) when (e) still


9. (a) preserves (b) feasible (c) rings (d) conceives (e) lacking


10. (a) miraculous (b) obeisance (c) indigenous (d) intimate (e) freakish



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