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第三模块测评(时间:100分钟　满分:120分)第Ⅰ卷第一部分　阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。AThe term country music refers to a variety of styles,originally popular among working class white Americans in the rural areas of the South and West.Originally known as “hillbilly music”,the term was replaced by country and western music in 1949 and eventually shortened to country music.But the origins of country music can be traced back to a century ago.There are many immigrants from Britain and Ireland.Their songs and dances,nursery rhymes and ballads,would form the most important part of the folk musical tradition of rural America,and the basis for what became known as “old time”music.These roots of country music lie largely in the folk songs and instrumental music of the English,Irish,and Scots who settled in the Appalachian areas of the Mid-South during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Many of these mountainous areas were not settled until the 1830s,and then by impoverished immigrants who were concerned with the daily struggle for survival.The communities were cut off from the rest of America and still attached to their traditions.Other origins of country music can be traced back to the flamenco and habanera music of Spain,the polka and other dances of Eastern Europe and—as with almost all the popular music of the United States—the influence of the slave populations shipped from the African continent.In fact one of the major instruments in Appalachian and early country music,the banjo,has its origins in Afro-American history.Two publishing events in the early part of the 20th century excited a widespread interest in America’s white musical tradition and “old time” music.First,in 1910,the musicologist John Lomax published CowboySongsandOtherFrontierBallads.Then in 1916 the English song collector Cecil Sharp put together a collection of folk music from the Appalachian mountains.But it wasn’t until 1922,when Texas fiddler(小提琴家) Eck Robertson cut the firs