(英语)英语阅读理解专项(6)

bargain的含义是讨价还价，故选B。

【点评】考查阅读理解。本文考查细节题，词义推断题，推理判断题和主旨题等常考题型，细节题要注意从文中抓住关键词寻找答案；主旨题，词义推断题以及判断题都需要通读全文，了解大意之后找出正确选项。

5．阅读理解

There are many kinds of music in the world, pop music, classical music, folk music and so on. Do you know country music? It's a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America. I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.

Country music usually talks of everyday life and feeling. It's like the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.

Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops or death. The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties.

But it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.

When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.

John Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song Take Me Home, Country Roads is well-known and people still play it today.

（1）Country music developed in .

A. John Denver's city

B. the Northern United States

C. the Southern United States

D. the Western United States

（2）People began to make country songs records .

A. in 1920

B. in the 1920s

C. in the 1970s

D. in 1970

（3）Why did country music become popular in America?

A. Because city people liked the music.

B. Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change.

C. Because country music talked about city people's lives.

D. Because people in the city moved to the countryside.

【答案】（1）C

（2）B

（3）B

【解析】【分析】文章大意：介绍了美国乡村音乐的发展及特点。

（1）细节理解题。根据文中的语句 Country music developed in the Southern United States. 可知，乡村音乐在美国南部发展起来。故选C。

（2）细节理解题。根据文中的语句 In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.在二十世纪二十年代，人们开始将乡村音乐录制成唱片。