【金版教程】2017高考英语一轮复习 Module 4 Music Born in America限时特训 外研版选修7.docVIP

Module 4 Music Born in America Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时16′) A [2016·山东师大附中模拟]“Indeed，” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century，and Americans had already created lightning-bug (萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The American bug could also be a per