The little girl impressed her friends with her sense of humor.

　　III.阅读理解

　　Are you interested in country music? 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 feelings. It's 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 well­known and people still play it today.

　　【语篇解读】　本文主要讲述了美国的乡村音乐。

　　1．Country music is usually about ．

　　A．everyday life and feelings

　　B．farmers' feelings

　　C．the lives of workers

　　D．the lives of farmers

　　A　[细节理解题。由文章第二段第一句可知乡村音乐是关于日常生活和感情的。]

　　2．People began to make country song records ．

　　A．in the 1920s　 B．in 1920

　　C．in the 1970s D．in 1970

A　[细节理解题。由文章第四段第四句可知A项正确。]