Many musicians meet and form (组成) a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students and practice their music in someone’s house. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can get some money for themselves or pay for their instruments (乐器).

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and was formed in 1965. It began as a TV show. The TV show had planned to find four rock musicians who could act as well as sing. But they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

Since some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to ask for help from other musicians. So at first, the band just pretended (假装) to sing. Anyway, their performances were excellent and they got lots of fans. Each week on TV, the Monkees would pretend to play and sing songs written by other musicians. After a year or so, they became more serious about their work. They started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced (制作) their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more influential and popular than the Beatles and sold even more records.

However, the band broke up around 1970, but happily they reunited (重聚) in the 1980s. They produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their time as a band. It was very successful. Today the Monkees are still making music for their millions of fans.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1.From the second paragraph, we can know that the Monkees _______.

A. was started by some students

B. began as a TV show

C. was started by fans of the Beatles

D. began as a radio program

2.At the beginning, the Monkees _______.

A. had five members

B. wrote songs for the Beatles

C. had other musicians sing for them

D. was not very interested in country music

3.What does the underlined word “influential” in Paragraph 3 mean in Chinese?

A. 有权势的 B. 有野心的

C. 有争议的 D. 有影响的

4.The Monkees has a history of about _______ years.

A. thirty B. forty

C. fifty D. sixty

5.The writer writes this passage mainly to _______.

A. show his love for the Monkees

B. introduce the history of the Monkees

C. ask more people to buy the Monkees’ records

D. tell how the Monkees is different from the Beatles

Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. They celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where this festival is called Harvest Festival, people celebrate it earlier in the year, in September.

A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground.

In North America and Britain, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in autumn. In these countries and other Christian places, people give thanks to God on a special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.

The first thanksgiving service in North America took place on December 4th, 1619 when 38 English people arrived in America to make their homes in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journeys. The next year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. They decided to celebrate it with a big meal. They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.

Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their family on this day to eat good food and have a happy time.

1.Day

Where

People in the United States 2.and the UK celebrate it.

When

Americans celebrate the festival on the last 3.of November.

Canadians celebrate it on the second Monday of October.

The British celebrate it earlier, in 4.

Why

People thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good

5.they have had.

How

In the past

The first thanksgiving service in North America was held by 38 English people

to thank God because they arrived 6..

The next year people celebrate it with a big 7..They cooked everything outside their houses and played games 8.

9.

North Americans 10.with their family to eat good food and enjoy themselves.

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