10．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（復雜），it is good to hear music about ordinary people．
Country music，sometimes called country-western，comes from two kinds of music．One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite 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 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（軍營）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 1，200radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day．English stars sing it in British English，and people in other countries sing it in their own languages．The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world．
33．It can be learned from the passage that country music comes fromC．
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
34．Before World War II country music was popular mainly inA．
A．the south B．the north
C．the Midwest D．the Northeast
35．During World War II many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Mid-west becauseC．
A．they wanted to take music with them
B．they wanted to make other people like country music
C．they wanted to work in the factories there
D．they wanted to make country music popular．
分析 文章介紹了美國鄉村音樂的由來，以及發展的歷史過程．
解答 CAC
33．C 主旨大意題．依據第二段One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States，以及The other is traditional cowboy music from the west，可知選鄉村音樂來自于美國東部的Appalachian山區，故選C．
34．A 細節理解 由第二段第六句"It was popular mostly in the South．"可知在二戰前，鄉村音樂只是在南部流行，故答案為A項．
35．C 細節題，依據是第二段"World War II，thousands of Southerners went to the northeast and Midwest to work in the factories．"可知在二戰期間，成千上萬的南方人去東北和中西，目的是去在那里工作，故選C．
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