Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today. Maybe, country music is very popular because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events like love, sadness, good times and bad times. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated and difficult, it is good to hear about simple ordinary people. Country music is sometimes called country-western music. It comes from two kinds 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 American West. The singers usually play guitars or electric guitars when they sing .
Country music become very popular in the South. During world war II, thousand of people from the South moved to the Northeast and the Midwest to work in factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South and learned to like country music there. Slowly, it became popular all over the United States
1. Country music is very popular because ………………………………………..
A. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. B. it’s about events like love, sadness
C. it is good to hear about simple ordinary people
D. it is about simple but strong human feelings and events like love, sadness, good times and bad times.
2.Country music is ……………
A. the traditional music of the people in the eastern United States
B. considered as the cowboy music from the American West.
C. sometimes called country-western music D. from two kinds of music which haven’t been widely known.
3. According to the passsge, it’s true to say that ……………………………..
A. Country music is very close to people’s real lives.
B. Country music is a kind of complicated and difficult music. C. Only good singers can sing country music. D. We cannot sing country music if we don’t know how to play the guitar.
4. The best title for the passage is …………………………………………
A. Country Music B. music in the United States C. The Formation of Country Music D. The Benefits of Country Music.
5. The word ‘It’ in line 4 refers to ____. A. music B. country music C. the way people really talk D. sound
