City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often

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

  Perhaps it is so popular because it is about simple but strong humanfeelings and events-love, sadness, good times and bad times, it tells real lifestories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more and more complicated (复杂的), it is good to hear music about ordinarypeople.

    Country music,sometimes  called  country western, comes from two kindsof music. One is the traditional music of the people in the AppalachianMountains in the eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy musicfrom the West. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they startedusing electric guitars.

    At first city people saidcountry music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But duringWorld WarⅡ, thousands of southerners went tothe Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music withthem. 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 ispopular everywhere in the United States and Canada, in small towns and in NewYork 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 poorfarmers is now popular all over the world.

     1. Which of the following can be used as thebest 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 paragraphmainly tells us    .

   A. why people love country music in theUnited States

   B. whenpeople began to enjoy country music

   C. howcountry 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 allover the world

   B.country music is well received all over the world

   C. richpeople love country music best of all

   D. blackpeople 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.

试题答案

答案：A;A;C;A;B