考研《英语一》2023年焦作市马村区高分通关卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年焦作市马村区高分通关卷 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) It was August 2nd, 1927. The news had spread 1 . A man named Craig Pierce was coming to the city of Bristol. He wanted to make recordings of local people singing and playing musical instruments. And he said he would 2 fifty dollars for each song recorded. That was a huge 3 in those days. Many people came to Bristol that day to 4 for Mr. Pierce. But one group seemed to have just the sound that he was 5 . They were a man named A．P. Carter，his wife Sara，and her cousin Maybelle. They 6 themselves the Carter Family. Their first recordings were sent to 7 throughout the United States. Many listeners were 8 at what they heard. Instead of classical or jazz songs that radio stations usually played，a new 9 was born. The Carter Family sounded 10 . They did not sound 11 they had taken music lessons. But it did not matter. The people in poor rural areas thought they sounded just like their 12 . The Carters sang songs about living in the mountains of Virginia，Tennessee，and North Carolina. They sang about the 13 of a young man for a special girl. They sang about the beauty of nature. They sang about death and sadness. And they sang religious songs that told of the hope for a(an) 14 life after death. A．P. Carter sang in the group and also searched for 15 songs. He often traveled long 16 to small towns in the southeastern United States. He wanted to hear the songs that 17 people sang in their communities. He wrote down the words but kept the music in his 18 . When he returned home, he helped Sara and Maybelle fit them to the Carter Family musical 19 . The Carter Family soon became popular. Within three years, the Carter Family sold 300,000 recordings. Life is like a stage, on which g