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息县一高2014级高二下学期第二次阶段性考试 英语试卷 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，40分）（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分） 第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Filmmaker Jennifer Nelson had to pay $ 1,500 to have“Happy Birthday to You攕ung in the movie she抯 making. The money went to Warner Music Group, a company that claims to own the copyright on the song. A copyright is the legal right to use or sell a creative product such as a song, a TV show, a book, or a work of art. Warner has claimed the copyright for揌appy Birthday to You攕ince 1988. 揑 never thought the song was owned by anyone,擭elson said in an e-mail to The New York Times.揑 thought it belonged to everyone.?Nelson’s movie is a documentary－a film that uses pictures and/or interviews with people to create a factual report of real-life events－and is actually about the history of the“Happy Birthday”song itself. Two sisters named Mildred and Patty Hill wrote a song called揋ood Morning to All攊n 1893. Over a short period of time, people began to sing the words揾appy birthday to you攊n place of the original lyrics to the tune of the Hill sisters?song. A number of history experts say the there is no record of who actually wrote the揌appy Birthday to You攍yrics. Historians also say there is no way to know
when the general public began singing the揌appy B
irthday攕ong, but they believe it was being sung by the public long before it was printed and owned by a company. Nelson抯 lawyers say this piece of music抯 history proves that揌appy Birthday to You攂elongs to everyone in the general public. That would mean Warner Music Group has no right to charge anyone a fee to sing the song in any setting. Experts estimate that Warner/Chappell, the publishing division of the Warner Music Group, has made about $ 2 million a year from licensing fees for揌appy Birthday to You.?Nelson抯 lawyers are asking a court in New York City to order Warner/Chappell to return fees they have collected over the p