题目内容
【题目】Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics ，and activities of the American people.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, ail the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music，such as the
【1】What can we know about music and people in America?
A. Student drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the street.
B. Students listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch.
C. Adult drivers only listen to news except music when they drive to work.
D. Adult drivers never listen to music when they drive to work.
【2】How many kinds of music are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5.
B. 6.
C. 7.
D. 8.
【3】Country music __________.
A. is a kind of music that is important in America
B. is a kind of folk music
C. is only sung by cowboys
D. is serious music for the concert halls
【4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. All people in America like popular music.
B. Pop singers can get all the money from the tapes.
C. Now, western or country music is a little different from its beginning.
D. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music.
【答案】
【1】B
【2】C
【3】A
【4】C
【解析】
【1】细节判断题。根据第二段第二句Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. 可知。
【2】细节判断题。根据第二段和最后两段可知。
【3】细节判断题。根据倒数第二段第一句和第四句可知。
【4】细节判断题。根据倒数第二段最后两句This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. 可知。
