Music is different from songs. Songs express feelings with lyrics, but music with tones (音调).Unlike songs, music tones in themselves have no specific meanings. Different people may get different things from the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music in their daily life because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music: some love classical music, and others take an interest in pop music. Most young people like pop music.

Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 1960s.The best-known early kind of pop music was “rock and roll”. Pop music has taken the place of native music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for “jazz” music to become much smaller than in the 1950s and earlier and it has now begun to become the most popular. Much pop music is without artistic value (价值), but the works of some pop singers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world.

1.The biggest difference between music and songs is ________.

A. feelings

B. lyrics and tones

C. languages and countries

D. meanings

2.According to the passage, the number of people for jazz in the 1950s and earlier was ________ it is today.

A. much greater than

B. much smaller than

C. as great as

D. as small as

3.What does the underlined word “kind” mean?

A. Type. B. Class.

C. Feature. D. Entertainment.

4.Which of the following has now become the most popular according to the passage?

A. Native music. B. Jazz.

C. Pop music. D. Classical music.

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

A. People can get different things from the same piece of music.

B. Pop music began to be popular in the midtwentieth century.

C. The best-known early form of pop music was “rock and roll”.

D. Much pop music is of great artistic value, so it interests young people greatly.。

B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词或词组完成短文): (共12分)

I was cute, active, happy…until that day when I was 15 months old. I had a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit and it cut my eye badly enough to blind it. The doctor said if the eye was taken out, my face would become out of _______, so my scarred(有疤痕的), blind and grey eye lived on with me.

People often asked uncomfortable questions about my eye or ________ played jokes on me. When the kids played games, I was always the “bad guy”. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.

Yet every time Mom noticed I was unhappy, she would say to me, “Hold your head up high and face the world.” It helped me move on in life.

As a child, I told myself, “Be careful or I will fall down or knock into something because I am not looking.” As a teenager, I always looked down to hide my shame, but I found that people liked me when sometimes I held my head up high.

In high school I was even made monitor, but outside I still felt like a freak(怪物). All I really wanted was to look like ________. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the love that is inside.” That is ________ Mom taught me pride.

Mom’s love and encouragement gave me the confidence to remove my own doubt. ________ I was able to look people in the eye. I learned not only to appreciate(欣赏) myself but to have love for others.

“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. Each of my children has felt its ________. The gift she gave me lives on in my children.

1.A. fashion B. order C. shape D. date

2.A. still B. even C. almost D. hardly

3.

A. something special B. something new

C. someone strange D. everyone else

4.A. when B. why C. how D. where

5.A. Especially B. Immediately C. Finally D. Suddenly

6.A. power B. promise C. energy D. secret

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