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    Jack Calder started playing the violin at age 10 when his music teacher lent him his uncle's violin. After school, Jack moved to Melbourne and started incorporating elements of rock music into his violin playing. He later formed the band Ocean Blue with other musicians who shared his musical vision. While some see violin as an unusual career, Jack feels lucky to do what he loves. He appreciates being able to see and play instruments that are hundreds of years old.

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    Jack Calder started playing the violin at age 10 when his music teacher lent him his uncle's violin. After school, Jack moved to Melbourne and started incorporating elements of rock music into his violin playing. He later formed the band Ocean Blue with other musicians who shared his musical vision. While some see violin as an unusual career, Jack feels lucky to do what he loves. He appreciates being able to see and play instruments that are hundreds of years old.

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    Jack Calder started playing the violin at age 10 when his music teacher lent him his uncle's violin. After school, Jack moved to Melbourne and started incorporating elements of rock music into his violin playing. He later formed the band Ocean Blue with other musicians who shared his musical vision. While some see violin as an unusual career, Jack feels lucky to do what he loves. He appreciates being able to see and play instruments that are hundreds of years old.

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    Test 1

    PART 3
    QUESTIONS 14-18

    For each question, choose the correct answer.

    Jack Calder
    Violin player Jack Calder plays in the Australian band, Ocean Blue.

    Jack Calder started playing the violin when he was ten. ‘My music teacher played
    and one
    day he asked if anyone wanted to learn. Some girls put up their hands and so did I.
    | didn't
    have a violin, but my uncle said | could use his. The lessons were really hard at
    first, but
    playing the violin soon became important to me."

    After leaving school, Jack moved to Melbourne. For a time, he preferred listening
    to music
    to playing Ít. The rock music he listened to sounded very different from violin
    music, so he
    bought an electric violin, and started putting the things he liked about rock music
    into the
    music he played on his violin.

    A year later, Jack met a small group of Melbourne musicians. ‘We all thought about
    music in
    the same way and started Ocean Blue together. A year later, we were playing lots of
    concerts,
    and our music was selling well. But we didn't want this to make us different
    people. We didn't
    want to stop being friends.”

    Jack meets many people who think playing the violin is an unusual career, but he
    doesn't
    ‘agree with them. !| think i's the best thing in the world. | guess I'm lucky that
    way. The
    internet has changed music, but when | walk into a violin shop its like entering
    another
    ‘world - one where time has stopped. Someone has looked after these beautiful old
    instruments that are two or three hundred years old. | think that's amazing."

    12

    14

    15

    16

    18

    What do we learn about Jack in the first paragraph?


    A He was the only person at school to play the violin.
    B He learned to play on an instrument that he borrowed.
    © He enjoyed playing the violin as soon as he started learning,

    What is the writer doing In the second paragraph?


    A explaining why Jack thought some music was easy to play
    B saying why only a few people liked the music Jack played

    © describing how Jack changed the kind of music he played

    What does Jack say about Ocean Blue?


    A Nobody in the band liked travelling far to play in a concert.

    B The band members were interested in different kinds of music.

    Reading and Writing

    © Everyone wanted to stay friends when the band became successful.

    Why does Jack think he is lucky?


    A Hemeets lots of people.
    B Heloves what he does.

    © Hehasan unusual career.

    Jack thinks its a good idea


    A to keep some things that people used in the past.
    B tomake more music available on the internet.

    © toteach more people to play an instrument.

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