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 reallife stories and sounds the way people really talk, as life becomes more complicated(复杂的)it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country western, comes from two lands 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 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 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.
【小题1】From the passage, we know that country music comes from________.
| A．the Northeast and Midwest | B．real-life stories in small towns |
| C．factories and army camps in the South. | D．the Appalachian Mountains and the West |
【小题2】Before World War II, country music was popular mainly in________.
| A．the South | B．the North | C．the Midwest | D．the Northeast |
【小题3】During World War II, many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Midwest to ________.
| A．study country music there | B．work in the factory there |
| C．make country music popular | D．teach local people country music |
【小题4】Country music is very popular in the USA today because________.
| A．city people said it was low class | B．it started with cowboys and poor Southerners |
| C．people could sing it in different languages | D．it is about human feelings and loved by different people |
【小题5】The passage mainly introduce the ____of country music?
| A．rhyme | B．history | C．beauty | D．style |
