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EOIDNA/ 2008-09/ 1º NA/ Reading Comprehension

READING COMPREHENSION (P1). Read the following text. You have to match up each of the paragraphs in the text (0-5) with the best sentence (A-H) that best summarises it. There are TWO extra sentences. There is an example (0-A) at the beginning.

Luciano Pavarotti Is Dead at 71




  1. Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian singer whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the post-war era, died Thursday at his home near Modena, in northern Italy. He was 71. His death was announced by his manager, Terri Robson. The cause was pancreatic cancer. In July 2006 he underwent surgery for the cancer in New York, and he had made no public appearances since then. He was hospitalized again this summer and released on Aug. 25.




  1. Like Enrico Caruso and Jenny Lind before him, Mr. Pavarotti extended his presence far beyond the limits of Italian opera. He became a titan of pop culture. Millions saw him on television and found in his expansive personality, childlike charm and generous figure a link to an art form with which many had only a glancing familiarity.




  1. Early in his career and into the 1970s he devoted himself with single-mindedness to his serious opera and recital career, quickly establishing his rich sound as the great male operatic voice of his generation — the “King of the High Cs,” as his popular nickname had it.




  1. By the 1980s he expanded his franchise exponentially with the Three Tenors projects, in which he shared the stage with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, first in concerts associated with the World Cup and later in world tours. Most critics agreed that it was Mr. Pavarotti’s charisma that made the collaboration such a success. The Three Tenors phenomenon only broadened his already huge audience and sold millions of recordings and videos. And in the early 1990s he began staging Pavarotti and Friends charity concerts, performing with rock stars like Elton John, Sting and Bono and making recordings from the shows.




  1. Throughout these years, despite his busy and vocally demanding schedule, his voice remained in unusually good condition well into middle age. Even so, as his stadium concerts and pop collaborations brought him fame well beyond what contemporary opera stars have come to expect, Mr. Pavarotti seemed increasingly willing to accept pedestrian musical standards. By the 1980s he found it difficult to learn new opera roles or even new song repertory for his recitals. And although he planned to spend his final years performing in a grand worldwide farewell tour, he completed only about half the tour, which began in 2004.




  1. Physical ailments limited his movement on stage and regularly forced him to cancel performances. By 1995, when he was at the Metropolitan Opera singing one of his favorite roles, Tonio in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” high notes sometimes failed him, and there were controversies over downward transpositions of a notoriously dangerous and high-flying part. Yet his wholly natural stage manner and his wonderful way with the Italian language were completely intact. Mr. Pavarotti remained a darling of Met audiences until his retirement from that company’s roster in 2004, an occasion celebrated with a string of “Tosca” performances. At the last of them, on March 13, 2004, he received a 15-minute standing ovation and 10 curtain calls. All told, he sang 379 performances at the Met, of which 357 were in fully staged opera productions.

516 w.

© BERNARD HOLLAND

Published: September 6, 2007

SENTENCES A-H





  1. Pavarotti died of cancer after a long illness

  2. During this decade he became hugely successful and wealthy.

  3. European audiences turned their backs on him.

  4. He was a pop icon and for many he represented Opera.

  5. His disputes with other great opera singers were famous.

  6. In his 30s and 40s he got to be the model male voice in Opera.

  7. Later in life singing standards lowered.

  8. Despite the problems, Pavarotti was always the favourite of the Met audiences.

KEY TO ‘PAVAROTTI IS DEAD AT 71’

1D, 2F, 3B, 4G, 5H


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