The new music was built out of materials already in______. (exist)：blues，rock'n'roll，folk music.

A. than

B. on

C. to

According to one rock music critic, the teenagers express their rebellious attitudes through rock music.()

A.Do you like music?

B.Rock and roll is fun.

C.What kind of music do you like?

D.How about if we enjoy classical music?

完形填空Music is part of every culture on Earth. Many people feel that music makes life worth___1___. We can make music ourselves if we play an instrument or sing. We can hear music on CDs and on radio or television. Music gives us pleasure. It can cheer us up, excite us, or___2__us. Music can be happy, sad, romantic, sleepy-all kinds of things. But what is it? Some people define it___3___an artful arrangement of sounds across time. Our ears___4___these sounds as loud or soft, high or low, rapid and short. The sounds need to continue for a time in some sort of pattern to become music. Music,___5___language, is a uniquely human form. of communication. As with language, there are many different kinds. In North America, people listen to jazz, rock, classical, folk, country, and many other kinds of music. Each kind of music has its own rules and "speaks" to us___6___its own way. What we think of music depends on___7___we live. What Americans are used to listening to might sound___8___to someone from another culture, and vice versa. It might not even sound like music. In Indonesia, gamelan orchestras play music on gongs, drums, and xylophones. These aren't the instruments you'd find in a___9___orchestra in North America. Today, modern communications make it___10___for us to listen to music from all over the world. Music from one part of the world influences music from another part. For example, gamelan music from Indonesia influenced 20th-century American composers such as John Cage.

1)

A、to live

B、live

C、living

D、lived

2)

A、soothe

B、plump

C、plunge

D、send

3)

A、to

B、as

C、with

D、at

4)

A、interfere

B、intervene

C、interface

D、interpret

5)

A、like

B、dislike

C、love

D、unlike

6)

A、at

B、to

C、in

D、on

7)

A、when

B、where

C、what

D、which

8)

A、strange

B、familiar

C、good

D、comfortable

9)

A、physical

B、chemical

C、economical

D、typical

10)

A、unlikely

B、like

C、possible

D、impossible

29． Ruth is good at music．

Rock and roll began in the 1950s in the USA. Rock and roll was based on African American styles of music -jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel and mixed with the sound of country. Elvis Presley was one of the first big stars of rock and roll. He was considered the "King" of rock and roll. Famous rock and roll stars and groups include Bill Haley and his group, the Comets, "Girl groups", the Ronettes (whose biggest hit was "Be My Baby"), the Crystals (whose biggest hit was "Da Doo Ron Ron" ), and the ShangriLas ( whose biggest hit was "Leader of the Pack" ) etc.

At the same time, in England, a group that became known as the Beatles was forming. Another British group formed at about the same time was the Rolling Stones. Their best-known members are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A record company called Motown ( eventually the name of the African American style, too), located in Detroit, Michigan, began producing hit records by African American groups and solo artists. Some of their most famous artists were Stevie Wonder,

The Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and the Jackson

Five. Michael Jackson, the youngest of the Jackson Five, went on to become a world-famous solo artist. Since the 1960s, there have been many different styles of rock music punk rock, heavy metal, and hip-hop, just to name a few. By the end of the twentieth century, rock music was known almost everywhere in the world.

41. This text mainly introduces to us()

A.some of the famous pop stars in the modem world

B. different styles of pop music

C. a simple history of the popular music ----rock and roll.

D. some of the countries known as the sources of pop music

42. The music performed by the Rolling Stones was based on()

A. British styles

B. American styles

C. African styles

D. African American styles

43. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Elvis Presley can remind people of rock and roll.

B. Rock music -punk, heavy metal, and hip-hop were the only pop styles since the 1960s.

C. Steve Wonder and the Jackson Five were also famous solo artists at that time.

D. Rock and roll is a mixture of different cultures.

44. Who was considered the King of the Rock and Roll?()

A. Bill haley

B. Elvis Presley

C. Michael Jackson

D. Diana Ross

45. Rock and Roll began in the()

A. 1990s

B. 2000s

C. 1950s

D. 1960s

46. “By My Baby” is the name of()

A. a song

B. a book

C. a girl

D. a boy

47. “the Beatle” is()

A. a kind of insect

B. a group of animals

C. the name of jazz band

C. a group of insects

Even if the word ‘pop’ disappears from the English vocabulary, the influence of pop will remain. Pop has become part of British and American history. There has always been a close cultural link, or tie, between Britain and English-speaking America, not only in literature but also in popular arts, especially music. Before the Second World War the Americans exported jazz and the blues. During the 1950s they exported rock ’n’ roll, and star singers like Elvis Presley were admired by young British and Americans alike. Then in the early 1960s a new sound was heard, very different from anything which had so far come from the American side of the Atlantic. This was the Liverpool, or Merseyside, ‘beat’. The new pop culture, in a few years, swept across Britain and America, and across most of the countries of the western world. The people responsible for the pop revolution were four Liverpool boys who joined together in a group and called themselves The Beatles. They played in small clubs in the back streets of the city. Unlike the famous solo stars, who had their songs written for them, the Beatles wrote their own words and music. They had a close personal relationship with their audience, and they expected them to join in and dance to the ‘beat’ of the music. Audience participation is an essential characteristic of pop culture. Some pop groups, in particular the Rolling Stones, did more than just entertain. They wrote words which were deliberately intended to shock. They represented the anger and bitterness of youth struggling for freedom against authority. The Beatles, on the other hand, finally won the admiration of people. As they developed, their songs became more serious. They wrote not only of love, but of death and poverty and daily life. Largely thanks to the Beatles, pop music had grown into a big and profitable industry. The influence of British pop in America was great. American pop groups soon became as famous as British groups. Both the British and Americans are experimenting with new ideas, and pop is developing and changing, and mixing with modern folk music.

1.When did the British start to export their pop music?

A、 In 1940s

B、 In 1950s

C、 In 1960s

D、 In 1970s

2.Which statement is true?

A、 The pop music comes from American.

B、 The word “pop” would be out of date someday.

C、 The spirit of pop shift from America to Britain.

D、 The spirit of pop music would not disappear.

3.What is the difference between the Beatles and the famous solo stars?

A、 The Beatles has four group members.

B、 The famous solo stars didn’t write songs themselves.

C、 The Beatles welcomed the audience’s participation.

D、 All of the above.

4.The Rolling Stone wrote songs not only to entertain, but also _______________.

A、 make people feel relax

B、 show their love to the world

C、 release their anger and dissatisfaction

D、 fight for the authority

5.In the author’s eyes, which one is more important, English pop and American pop?

A、 None of them

B、 English pop

C、 American pop

D、 Both of them

Aon listen

Bto listening

Clistening

Dlistened

Text 4Material culture refers to the touchable, material “things”—physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used—that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of “things” in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments on the symphony orchestra.

Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as a whole.

Music is deep-rooted in the cultural background that fosters it. We now pay more and more attention to traditional or ethnic features in folk music and are willing to preserve the folk music as we do with many traditional cultural heritage. Musicians all over the world are busy with recording classic music in their country for the sake of their unique culture. As always, people’s aspiration will always focus on their individuality rather than universal features that are shared by all cultures alike.

One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, and television, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the “information-revolution”, a twentieth century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.

第36题：Which of the following does not belong to material culture?

［A］ Instruments.

［B］ Music.

［C］ Paintings.

［D］ Sheet music.