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1、【状元之路状元之路】2014-2015】2014-2015 学年高中英语学年高中英语 语篇提能语篇提能 2323 新人教版新人教版必修必修 2 2阅读理解AAre 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 feeli
2、ngs. Its 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 th
3、e 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 country 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
4、 took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.John Denver was one of Americas most famous country singers in the 1970s.His song “Take Me home, Country Roads” is wellknown and people still play it today.1Country music is usually about _.A. everyday l
5、ife and feelings B. farmers feelingsC. the lives of workers D. the lives of farmers答案与解析 A 细节理解题。由文章第二段第一句可知乡村音乐是关于日常生活和感情的。2People began to make country song records _.A. in the 1920s B. in 1920 C. in the 1970s D. in 1970答案与解析 A 细节理解题。由文章第四段第四句可知 A 项正确。3Why did country music become popular in Ameri
6、ca?A. Because city people liked the music.B. Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change. C. Because country music talked about city peoples lives.D. Because country music developed in the Southern Africa.答案与解析 B 细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段可知农民们带着音乐进城使得乡村音乐流行起来。4Who is famous for
7、the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”？A. A farmer in the countrysideB. A person who moved to townsC. John Denver D. John Denvers brother 答案与解析 C 细节理解题。由文章最后一段可知这首歌的作者是约翰丹佛。BCountry music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human
8、 feelings and events love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells reallife stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated (复杂的), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.Country music, sometimes called countrywestern, comes from two lands of music. One is
9、 the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The other is the 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 lowclass. It was
10、 popular mostly in the south. But during the World War ， 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 a
11、ll over the country.Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada in small towns and in New York, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated. About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty four hours a day. English stars sing it in British En
12、glish 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.5It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from _.A. the northeast and midwestB. factories and army camps in the southC. th
13、e Appalachian Mountains and the westD. reallife stories in small towns答案与解析 C 细节理解题。依据第二段可知答案。6During the World War many southerners went to the northeast and midwest because _.A. they wanted to take music with themB. they wanted to make other people like country musicC. they wanted to work in the f
14、actories thereD. they wanted to make country music popular答案与解析 C 细节理解题。依据第三段中的“the World War ， thousands of southerners went to the northeast and midwest to work in the factories.”可知。7Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because _.A. city people said it was low
15、classB. people could sing it in different languagesC. it started with cowboys and poor southernersD. it is loved by different kinds of people in the world答案与解析 D 因果推断题。依据最后一段的第一句“Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada in small towns and in New York, among blac
16、k and white, and among educated and uneducated.”可推知答案为 D 项。8Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Country music is sung by stars all in English.B. Country music is about human feelings and events.C. Country music is only popular with city people today.D. The singers started using electric guitars in the 1930s.答案与解析 B 正误判断题。通读全文可知乡村音乐是表达情感和事情的一种音乐。
