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A. Popular music B. Western music C. Serious music 【 解析 】 選 B。 3. What’s one of the reasons that singers bee national stars? A. Their CDs or tapes are used in every state. B. Several young people buy their CDs or tapes. C. They are followed by young people sometimes. 【 解析 】 選 A。 2. What do adult drivers do while they are driving? A. Listen to pop songs. B. Listen to news and make a CD. C. Listen to music and news. 【 解析 】 選 C。 Ⅳ . 閱讀理解 (30分 ) (A) Music is an international language. 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 music loudly as they drive on the street. 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 American people. Most of the radio broadcast are music. Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes es to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has bee a national star. There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the mon 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. 1. Almost every American student likes _____. A. popular music B. American songs C. folk music 【 解析 】 選 A。 我給你打電話是要說明我并沒有狗 ” 。 10. A. voice B. sound C. noise D. cry 【 解析 】 選 A。 9. A. sang B. asked C. rang D. stopped 【 解析 】 選 C。 直到第二天早晨三點鐘 , 再沒有別的事情發(fā)生 。when“當 …… 的時候 ” , until“直到 ” , after“在 …… 之后 ” ,before“在 …… 之前 ” , 由上文可推知應用 before。 7. A. when B. until C. after D. before 【 解析 】 選 D。 她想道 , “ 我以前在這里從未聽到過狗叫 。 wake up“醒 , 醒來 ” , stand up“站起來 ” , get up“起床;起身 ” , look up“抬頭看 , 仰視 ” , 由下文可知格雷女士被狗叫聲突然驚醒 。 5. A. woke up B. stood up C. got up D. looked up 【 解析 】 選 A。 他看起來很文靜 。 move in與上文的move out相對照 。 3. A. in B. out C. up D. down 【 解析 】 選 A。 所以 , 當住在她樓上的那對愛喧鬧的年輕男女搬出時 , 她非常高興 。 表示并列關系要用連詞 and。 Ⅲ . 完形填空 (10分 ) Morning Call Miss Grey lived alone in a small flat. She was old 1 did not like noise at all. So she was very 2 when the noisy young man and woman who lived in the flat(公寓 ) above her moved out. A new young man moved 3 , and Miss Grey thought, “Well, he looks 4 . ” But at three o’clock the next morning, Miss Grey suddenly 5 . She heard the barking of a dog. She thought, “I’ve 6 heard a dog here before. It must belong to(屬于 ) the new man in the flat above. ”So she telephoned the young man and said some nasty(令人厭惡的 ) things to him about the dog. Then she hung up the telephone 7 he could