Most people hate rock music. While I am not (1) nature an unreasonable or biased person, two (2) and striking personal experiences of rock music (3) the past two weeks have persuaded me that it has become a duty for those of us with enough common (4) to see its potential ers to point them out. My first experience—perhaps a (5) one, but highly symptomatic (有征兆的)—was the realization that if I spoke to my age son when he was listening to rock music through headphones, he replied in an (6) loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his (7) . The second occurred when I went with him to a "concert" and witnessed for (8) what these affairs are like.
Till I went to that concert, my first and assuredly my last, I had always (9) the "live-and-let-live" attitude that rock music was simply not my (10) but that other people had every right to enjoy it if it was (11) . But what I saw and heard convinced me that we are allowing something very powerful to take (12) of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed (13) collective madness, brought about by the noise (14) . But secondly, and far more erously, I observed that after a time everyone was carried (15) by the noise, and gave up his/her individuality. (16) the end I was in the middle of a faceless (17) who clapped and stamped and jumped around like monkeys. It was the most degrading human spectacle I have ever had the (18) to witness, and I seriously believe that (19) time to come our present younger generation would thank us if we managed to puta (20) to it now.