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Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today, because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events --love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated, it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the west. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was of low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada--in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor Southerners is now popular all over the world.
(1)It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from ________.
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A��the Northeast and Midwest
B��factories and army camps in the South
C��the Appalachian Mountains and the West
D��real-life stories in small towns
(2)Before World War II country music was popular mainly in ________.
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A��the South
B��the West
C��the Midwest
D��the Northeast
(3)The underlined word ^complicated ̄probably means ________.
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A��hard
B��difficult
C��complex
D��beautiful
(4)Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because ________.
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A��city people said it was low class
B��people could sing it in many different languages
C��it started with cowboys and poor Southerners
D��it is loved by different kinds of people in the world
(5)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
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A��Country music is about human feelings and events.
B��Country music is sung by stars all in English.
C��Country music is popular among city people today.
D��City people didn't like country music at first.
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Mr Parker was living in the country , and he wanted to go to an office in the city one day . He 1 the address on a letter, got 2 his car and 3 to the city . He drove straight to the office without any 4 and stopped his car 5 the office. He locked his car and 6 to go into his office, but suddenly he turned around and went back to his car . He remembered that he 7 his keys in it ! He telephoned his wife and said, ^ 8 , I ¨ve locked my keys in my car . Please 9 me your keys . ̄
Mrs Parker got into their 10 car and drove twenty miles to 11 her husband. But 12 Mr Parker was waiting for his wife, he walked 13 his car and tried the other 14 . It was not locked ! Mr Parker locked it 15 before his wife arrived.
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頼侘野腎
Tadatoyo Yamamoto is a Japanese businessman.He 1 the US from time to time.While he was 2 at a hotel on a visit to Chicago,he put his bag on the 3 .A few minutes 4 ,Mr Yamamoto reached down for it,but it was 5 .Inside it were about ∞ 900,his passport(擦孚), 6 of his family,and his 7 tickets to Japan.
But three weeks 8 he returned to Tokyo,Mr Yamamoto 9 an envelope.There was 10 inside but his passport,his airline tickets,photos of his family and 11 orders for more than ∞900 and a 12 from Mr Joseph Loveras.It said:
^I 13 this money order and the things ´ will make you believe in the 14 of Chicago. ̄
The next 15 he travelled to the US,Mr Yamamoto 16 Mr Loveras.He was a 67-year-old sick man with a total 17 of ∞ 493 a month.
He explained that he 18 the bag on a street corner and 19 the money and the tickets in the top part of the 20 .He changed the money into money orders and 21 his own money to send it to Japan.
Mr Yamamoto was very 22 by what Mr Loveras had done. ^I asked him 23 he would go to all the trouble to return 24 to me.He told me that if he had not done it,it would have made him feel bad for the rest of his 25 . ̄
Now they have become friends,and Mr Yamamoto visits Mr Loveras every time he is in the US.
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B��something |
C��everything |
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B��post |
C��spoken |
D��bank |
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B��letter |
C��programme |
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B��believe |
C��hope |
D��learn |
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C��police |
D��people |
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C��time |
D��way |
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C��called at |
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B��income |
C��saving |
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B��tried |
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D��picked |
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B��paid |
C��passed |
D��changed |
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B��bag |
C��jpise |
D��wall |
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B��got |
C��wasted |
D��spent |
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B��surprised |
C��moved |
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B��when |
C��whether |
D��why |
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B��everything |
C��the bag |
D��the money |
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B��country |
C��city |
D��family |