内容正文:
B卷·能力提升卷
(时间:100分钟满分:120分)
第一部分阅读理解:共两节,满分50分。
第一节(共15小题:每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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Music is an international language.The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to
all people everywhere.
Popular music in America is what every student likes.Students carry small radios with earphones and
listen to music before class,after class,and at lunch.Students with cars buy large speakers and play the
music loudly as they drive on the streets.
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Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work.They also listen to the news about sports,
the weather,politics,and activities of the American people.Most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money.They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in
every state.Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country,young people buy his or her tapes.
Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer.Wherever the singer goes,all the young people
want to meet him or her.Now the singer has become a national star.
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There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans.One is called folk music.It tells
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stories about the common life of Americans.Another is called western or country music.This was started
by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.Today,any music about country life
and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music.Music for instruments is called orchestra
music,such as the symphonies of Beethoven.There is opera for singers.There is ballet for dancers like the
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story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in China.
1.In what way can music be regarded as an international language?
A.Popular music is what everyone enjoys.
B.The songs that are sung or played by instruments are so beautiful and understandable that everyone can
enjoy them.
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C.When music is played,it seems as if it were speaking to u