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    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 tell about the lives of farmers. They talk 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 1920s,people played ountry 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. In this way,country music became popular across America.

    John Denver was one of America5s most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song “Take Me Home,Country Roads" is well-known and people still play it today.

1题判断正误，2题完成句子，3题简略回答问题，4题在文中找出同义句，5题将画线的句子翻译成汉语。

1. Country music is usually about everyday life and feelings.()

2. Country music developed in .

3. When did people begin to make country song records?

   

4. The words in country music are often sad because the life of the countryside can be hard.

   

5.  

Answer 1

Ⅳ 1. T 

2. the southern United States   

3. In the 1920s. 

4. The life of the countryside can be hard,so the words in country music are often sad. 

5. 就这样，乡村音乐在美国流行起来。