辽宁省大石桥市第二高级中学高一4月月考英语试题Word版含答案.docVIP

大石桥二高中2015—2016学年度下学期4月月考试卷 高一英语试卷 第一部分 听力 （省略） 第二部分 阅读理解 （ 共两节，满分40分） 第一节 （ 共15小题，每题2分 ，满分 30分） 阅读下列短文， 从每题所给的四个选项中， 选出最佳选项。 A Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today 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 complicated(复杂), 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 War II, 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（军营）in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country. Today country music is also 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. English stars sing it in British English, 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. 1. It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from __________. A. the Northeast and Midwest B. factories and army camps in the South C. the Appalachian Mountains and the West D. real-life stories in small towns 2. Before World War II country music was popular mainly in __________. A. the south B. the north C. the Midwest