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60. Adolescence is an exciting time. It is also a time that 62. Wall paintings in ancient Egyptian tombs show that
can be very confusing. Boys and girls become much the people of Africa have made and played musical
more interested in each other. ---- In fact, during instruments for thousands of years. ---- Arabs brought
adolescence, most boys and girls care a lot about what musical instruments and styles that became part of the
other adolescents think of them. They may also be culture of North Africa, the western savannah, and the
very concerned with how they fit into their world. Often eastern coast. European colonial armies and missionaries
adolescents choose to spend time with their friends introduced Western instruments such as brass horns.
rather than with their families. Urban musicians of modern Africa have adopted Western
electric instruments – guitar, bass, and synthesiser – to
A) When it is time, boys grow facial hair, develop stronger
create exciting new music. Yet from the dance halls to the
muscles, and their voices deepen.
rural farmlands, many musicians still play the traditional
B) At the same time, they may worry about their appearance, instruments of Africa.
and they are sometimes easily embarrassed.
A) Over the centuries, the many invaders of Africa
C) As adolescents grow emotionally, they begin to take on
introduced new instruments.
new responsibilities and gain new freedoms.
B) The knowledge of crafting musical instruments has been
D) The fact that they act and think more independently mean
passed on to younger generations by the elderly.
that they are on their way to becoming adults.
C) A key feature of African music is when instruments are
E) Another change in the body during adolescence is the
played together.
development of the reproductive system.
D) African musicians have a long tradition of inventing and
making small handheld instruments.
E) Most traditional musicians use their instruments to create
the distinctive sounds of African music.

61. Most teenagers and some adults experience a skin
condition called acne. It is caused by changes inside
the body which occur naturally as a boy or girl reaches
puberty, or matures. At that time the body produces more
of chemicals called hormones. Some of those hormones
speed up the skin's production of oil. ---- As the oil gland
under a blocked pore makes more oil, the pore swells up
to form a pimple.

A) However, there are treatments for clearing up acne and
ways of preventing acne from getting worse.
B) There is very little a person can do to prevent acne aside
from washing the skin with a mild soap.
C) The extra oil dumps together with dead skin cells to clog
pores, or tiny openings in the skin.

D) Some cases of acne are very mild and go away without
leaving any signs or scars.
E) Acne lesions are commonly known as pimples and they
occur especially on the face and neck.

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