One of the most popular American singers of 20th century was Elvis Presley．Elvis Presley made the music called rock‘n'roll popular around the world．He sold millions of records and made many successful films, and he helped change the direction of popular music in the 1960's．Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in a small town called tupelo, in Mississippi in the southern United States; he came from a very poor family．His parents were simply country people who often took Elvis to church．At church he learned to sing, and he never forgets the kind of songs that he used to sing in church as a child．
When he was a school boy, Elvis moved to the town of Memphis in Tennessee(田纳西州)．He attended high school in Memphis, but he was not a very good student．His only real interest was singing．He began to sing in the style that is popular in Tennessee, a style called country and western．
In 1955 in Memphis he recorded some country and western songs for his mother's birthday, the people at the recording studio liked Elvis's singing and music．There was something different about it．It was country and western music, but it also sounded a little like the music which black people used to sing in the American south, music known as blues．
(1)
Elvis parsley will always be remembered by American people as ________．
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A．
a film star
B．
a famous conductor
C．
a record maker
D．
a great singer
(2)
The music Elvis recorded was the style called ________．
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A．
blues
B．
popular
C．
rock“n”roll
D．
country and western
(3)
When he was at high school, Elvis didn't do very well in his studies because ________．
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A．
he was slow in learning
B．
his family was very poor．
C．
he went to church too often
D．
he was only interested in singing
(4)
At the recording studio, people noticed country and western ________．
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year．You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly．
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have．
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions．
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit．If you move your tips，hold your fingers over them，or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading．Then if your lips move，your will know it and can stop them．
If you point to words，hold the two sides of your book，one side with your left hand，the other side with your right hand．Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading．If you move your head，place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的)．
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time，you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words．
Even if you do rather fast now，you can learn to read even faster．As you probably have been told，the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance．Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go．Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster．
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______．
A．to tell others to be silent
B．to feel whether your lips move or not
C．to hold a piece of paper between them
D．to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read，______．
A．don't keep your head still
B．don't hold your books with your hands
C．don't stand up near a desk
D．don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast，______．
A．you can read more in less time
B．you can write faster
C．you can understand better
D．you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading．
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