Question

【題目】Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words（在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順。每空格限填一詞，首字母已給）

Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphone and listen to music b【1】 class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play music l【2】as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the n【3】 about sports, the weather, and activities of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio starts to use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the m【4】from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national s【5】.

There are o【6】 kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was done by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, a【7】 music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies of Beethoven.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】before

【2】loudly

【3】news

【4】money

【5】star

【6】other

【7】any

【解析】

該文章主要介紹了美國的幾種音樂，各種音樂的由來以及音樂在人們生活中的地位。

【1】句意：學生們戴著帶耳機的小收音機，在上課前聽音樂。

分析句子可知，此處表示“在上課前聽音樂”；“在……之前”用英語表達是before，是介詞，用于名詞class之前，故填before。

【2】句意：有車的學生買大音箱，在街上開車時大聲播放音樂。

分析句子可知，此處表示“大聲播放音樂”；“大聲”用英語表達是loudly，是副詞，修飾其前的動詞play，故填loudly。

【3】句意：他們也聽關于美國人的運動、天氣和活動的新聞。

分析句子可知，此處表示“新聞”；“新聞”用英語表達是news，是名詞，此處構成短語“the news about”翻譯為“關于……的新聞”，故填news。

【4】句意：這些磁帶賣的一些錢到達歌手那里。

分析句子可知，此處表示“錢”；“錢”用英語表達是money，是名詞，根據(jù)前文“young people buy his or her tapes”可知，年輕人買了歌手的磁帶，所以買磁帶的錢會到歌手那里，故填money。

【5】句意：現(xiàn)在這位歌手已成為全國明星。

分析句子可知，此處表示“明星”；“明星”用英語表達是star，是名詞，用于become之后作表語，故填star。

【6】句意：對美國人來說，有其他重要的音樂類型。

分析句子可知，此處表示“其他的”；“其他的”用英語表達是other，是形容詞，修飾其后的名詞kinds作定語，故填other。

【7】句意：現(xiàn)今，任何關于鄉(xiāng)村生活和鄉(xiāng)村男孩與女孩之間的愛情的歌曲被稱為西部音樂或鄉(xiāng)村音樂。

分析句子可知，此處表示“任何的”；“任何的”用英語表達是any，是形容詞，修飾其后的名詞music作定語，故填any。

該文章主要介紹了美國的幾種音樂，各種音樂的由來以及音樂在人們生活中的地位。相對難度較大，閱讀起來有一定困難，只要抓住文章的主旨，音樂的種類就好理解了。