[中学联盟]福建省建瓯市第二中学2017-2018学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题

2017-2018学年建瓯二中高一上期第一次月考英语试卷 时间：90分钟 满分：120分 时间：2017.10.08 二．阅读理解 [来源:学科(共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分) （A） City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often laugh at simple country ways. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today. Perhaps it is so popular because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events -- love, sadness, good times and bad times. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more and more complicated, it is good to hear music about ordinary people. Country music, sometimes called country-and-western, 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 West. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said co