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阅读理解—文化艺术类 (限时20分钟，每小题2分，满分24分)》 A 2.What was the audience's reaction when they first Next time you hear John Denver singing "Take Me heard“Take Me Home,Country Roads'”? Home,Country Roads”一or hear the group Spank A.People all didn't fancy its lyrics. perform it in the short filmed advertisement for the video B.Most people assumed that it was noisy. game Fallout 76,which has become a hit over the past C.They made bad comments on the singers. year or so since it came out-keep in mind that it D.They were all fascinated by it. wasn't anywhere in West Virginia that inspired the 3.What does paragraph 5 mainly convey? great hit,but rather a road in Montgomery County. A.Why Maryland was unused. Songwriter Bill Danoff,in a 1997 article he wrote B.Why the song was so popular for The Washington Post in memory of Denver,who'd C.More achievements of the singers. just died,said he had begun writing the song while D.A new way to understand the song. driving to a family reunion along Clopper Road,near 4.What can be learned about "Take Me Home,Country Gaithersburg.He and his future wife,Taffy Nivert, Roads"from the last paragraph? completed the song in December 1970 with Denver's A.It is popular among Red Sox fans. help.“Back then,”Danoff wrote,Clopper Road“was B.It is a state song of West Virginia. still a country road”. C.It earned Denver a national award in 2014. The three first sang the song the following night at D.It was played most frequently in Massachusetts. Washington D.C.'s The Cellar Door,where Denver B was headlining."When we first sang the song togeth- Robots in the art world are nothing new.In fact, er,"Danoff wrote,"it seemed as though the audience for centuries,people have built robots as art objects- would never stop applauding.Next show,the same or simple machines that perform a series of movements thing.We knew we had a hit. -in ancient China and Japan.However,what's dif- In Take Me Home,hisI994 autobiography(自传) ferent now is that artists and engineers are bui