Unit 2 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Pre-reading

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　Back to three years before, the hit song Call Me Maybe was on everyone's lips, and Carly Rae Jepsen had risen to pop status. But many critics wondered whether the Canadian singer­songwriter was a one­hit wonder.

　　Jepsen admits that she felt a sudden increase of pressure after the single's unexpected popularity. To do with the stress, Jepsen threw herself into creating new songs every single day. It was as if Jepsen disappeared - at least by the standard of pop stars. She had vanished from music charts and gossip columns as she got down to work.

　　Over the next three years, the singer wrote over 200 songs and selected 17 of them to showcase in her new album Emotion, released last month.

　　The 29­year­old Jepsen found herself with another hit when the album's lead single, I Really Like You, started to top the charts.

　　　Some people have made fun of the song for repeating"really" five times in a row and 67 times throughout the whole song."But it's also an example of how more simple music can be art，" The Atlantic commented.

　　The appealing, energetic Emotion proves that Jepsen will be a chief support in the music industry for the long journey. But her success is more than just bright and attractive earworms (上口曲调)．

　　Yes, it's true that I Really Like You is a kind of 2015 version of Call Me Maybe.But in the album's other singles, Jepsen gets adventurous, experimenting with deeper material.

　　Emotion is not all pop. Jepsen reveals a few musical styles that we've never heard from her before.

　　Run Away With Me, a song filled with crying saxophones, opens the album. In Boy Problems, Jepsen shows unexpected fierceness. And Jepsen's personal favorite, All That, is a hot ballad that talks about the desire for intimacy (亲密)．

　　"I hope that I'm always changing, and that with every album I'm kind of reinventing what excites me and reinventing sort of where I want to go musically，" Jepsen said.

　　语篇解读：本文讲述了加拿大的创作型歌手卡莉·蕾·吉普森是如何通过自己的努力在音乐界获得成功的。

1．What did Jepsen do with her pressure from the hit song Call Me Maybe?