Question

The London Music Event.

The Proms is a summer season of daily 1) … music concerts and other events in London. The season lasts seven weeks and there 2) … concerts every night. Most of the concerts are performed at the Royal Albert Hall. Nowadays it is 3) … classical music festival in the world.

The famous festival started more than a hundred years ago. Robert Newman, the manager of the Queen's Hall in London, met a talented young musician and conductor Henry Wood. They decided to organize the summer concerts. They hoped that these concerts would educate people about classical music and 4) … make this kind of music more popular. The concerts would begin with easy pieces of music and gradually introduce more challenging compositions. And so the 5) … of the Proms was performed on August 10, 1895. 6) … concerts also went under the name of Mr Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts.

1

a classical

b class

c classics

2

a were

b are

c have been

3

a big

b the most big

c the biggest

4

a hopefully

b hopeful

c hope

5

a one

b first

c --

6

a These

b this

c that