Question

City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often laugh at simple country ways. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today.

   Perhaps it is so popular 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 and more complicated (復雜的), 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 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 low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World WarⅡ, 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 to like country music. Slowly it became popular all over he country.

    Today country music is 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 1 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. People sing it in their languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor farmers is now popular all over the world.

     1. Which of the following can be used as the best title for this passage?

　　　　 A. American Country Music

　　　　 B. Life in the American Country

　　　　 C. American Cowboys

　　　　 D. American Radio Stations

     2. People enjoy country music because　　    .

　　　　 A. it is about ordinary people

　　　　 B. it is easy to learn

　　　　 C. it is free of charge

  　　   D. it is very exciting

    3. The fourth paragraph mainly tells us　　    .

　　   A. why people love country music in the United States

　　   B. when people began to enjoy country music

　　   C. how country music became more and more popular

   　　D. where country music was most popular

4. From the last paragraph we can see that　　　　 .

  A. all people enjoy country music all over the world

　　   B. country music is well received all over the world

　　   C. rich people love country music best of all

　　   D. black people enjoy country music best of all

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?

　　    A. American country music first started in the South.

　　    B. American country music comes from Appalachian Mountains and the West.

　　    C. American country music is becoming more and more complicated.

　　    D. American country music is low class.

 

Answer 1

答案：1A2A3C4A5B
提示：

1題很顯然，通篇文章都在講述country music。2題country music 因是關于simple but strong human feelings and events 而受人歡迎。3題由于南方人與北方人的不斷交流副合，才使得country music在全國流行開來。5題由第三段可知答案。