题目内容
Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It’s the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs told about the lives of farmers. They talked about love, crops or death.
The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the nineteen twenties, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America’s most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is well-known and people still play it today.
1.Country music was usually about everyday life and feelings.
2.Country music developed in the Northern United States.
3.People began to make country song records in 1970s.
4.Country music was easy to understand, slow and full of happiness.
5.John Denver is famous for the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.
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I’m Cathy Brown. I am now working for the Sunshine Travel Service in Jinan, Shandong. I have just come back from Taiwan, the 1._______ island in China.
Last week, I took a group of officials for a week’s trip to Taiwan. We2. _______ all around the island. There are lots of fascinating 3._______ on the island. My favorite is the Sun Moon Lake. You may ask why people call it so. If you 4._______ high up over the lake and look down from your plane, you’ll find the answer 5._______. In the middle of this lake, there’s a small island that is 6._______ Lalu. On one side of Lalu, the lake 7.______ like the sun, and on the other side it looks like the moon. That is why people call it the Sun Moon Lake.
There are many8._______ around this lake. One of the nearest is Mount Ali. We stayed there for three days. We also 9. _______ a dancing party with Gaoshan people there.
Why not consider 10._______ Taiwan for your next vacation? It’s a wonderful place to visit.