When Mick Jagger's fans look at him 1______ a high priest or a god, are you with them or 2______ them? Do you share Chris Singer s almost religious 3______ for Bob Dylan? Do you think he—or Dylan——is 4______? Do you 5______ Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you 6______ somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he 7______your wildest fantasies?
“Music expresses its 8______，” says sociologist Irving Horowitz. Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of 9______ forum, a place where ideas clash and crash. He sees it as a place 10______ American society struggles to define and 11______ its feelings and beliefs. “The redefinition,” Horowitz says, “is a task uniquely 12______ by the young. It is they alone who 13______ invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics.”
Today's heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 14______. "And I 15______ to myself at the men and the ladies.Who never 16______ of us billion-dollar babies.”The 17______ "culture hero" who 18______ that is Alice Cooper.
A.reject B.times C.against D.combine E.where F.debating
G.misguided H.as I.acts out J.redefine K.drawn L.performed
M.reverence N.conceived O.particular P.rewards Q.laughed R.sings