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　　Hip hop or rap (说唱 ） music as it is also called,started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s．But today many countries have their own kind of hip hop music．This kind of music comes from reggae, disco and funk music．Rapping means speaking to the rhythm of the music, and it is an important part of the music．People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems．

　　Would you like to rap in class ? Well actually,hip pop music is played in more than 10,000 schools in the USA．Why ? There is a new school program called “ Flocabulary ”in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects．The words of the songs are just what students are studying．This makes learning easy and fun．Students and teachers are excited about the positive results it has had on exam marks．One teacher said, “ I've used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students so crazy about history ! You can't imagine how well they imagine how well they remember what I teach ! We even try to write our own songs．”

　　Whose idea was Flocabulary?

　　Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary．The word “ Flocabulary ” comes from the word “ flow ” and “ vocabulary ”．“ Flow ” is a rap word for “ style ”,or the way a rapper says the words of a song．“ Vocabulary ” means the words you have to learn in a language．How did he get the idea ? Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song very easily．So,why not make lessons into songs ? Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer, Blake produces hip hop songs for maths, science and literature (文学 ）．They are now used in schools with great success．

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius of his age．There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light．But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius．“There is no such thing as genius,”Edison said．He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work．

　　But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker．From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature．He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them．

　　Edison enjoyed thinking．He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often．But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure．

　　Edison could not understand how anyone could not be interested in life．As he loved to think, he also loved to work．On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea he had about life．“Work,”he answered,“Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier．”He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work．

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