Only a hundred years ago, people seldom traveled far out of their birthplace. Books were very expensive and there were few national（国家的）newspapers and no radio or TV. In fact, most people spent their time talking and listening. And only a little reading and writing went on and many people were unable to read and write. For this reason, native dialects（方言）grew up and people spoke as their parents and grandparents did. A Cornwall woman who traveled just as far as London would find that people spoke a complete different language.

　　Sometimes it is hard to take in just how much things have changed. You always have books around, read magazines and newspapers, have different TV or radio programs. You and everyone around you, often travel not just in British islands but all of the world. Modern science has changed our life and distances（距离）have been made shorter. It might have taken a Cornwall woman three days to travel to London. Now it takes less than two hours by air, less than four by train and less than six by road.

　　The result of this is that the language we use is becoming more national and the dialect are dying out. Writing, printing（印刷）and broadcasting（广播）have speeded up this change as one dialect has come to be used by more and more people. This is the dialect called Standard（标准的）English which was first used outside London in the south and east Midlands.

A．people wouldn't like to leave their birthplace

B．there were neither books nor newspapers

C．most people couldn't read and write

D．people learned to read and write from their family members

A．London was not far from her birthplace

B．London was a strange city

C．she could easily understand London people

D．she could hardly understand London people

A．watching TV and listening to the radio

B．reading books and magazines

C．traveling just within the British islands

D．traveling over tile world

A．distances have been made shorter by modern science

B．it takes a Cornwall woman less time to travel to London

C．the capital of England has been moved to a place near Cornwall

D．people mustn't speak dialect in England

A．dying out slowly

B．used by more and more people

C．used in east Midlands only

D．used by London people only

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　　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 street.

　　Adult(成年的) drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.

　　Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national(国家的) star.

　　There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk(民间) music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys(牛仔) 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.

1．________ kinds of music are mentioned in this passage.

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2．When pop singers ________, they will become national stars.

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A．make much money

B．make a CD or tape

C．are loved by all the young people

D．are wanted to sing on the radio

3．From the passage we know that country music is about the ________.

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A．common life of Americans

B．country life and love stories

C．life of cowboys

D．both A and C

4．Which of the following is true according to this passage?

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A．A few students in America like popular music.

B．Students with cars in America like to listen to music while driving.

C．Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while driving.

D．Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go.

5．What would be the best title for this passage?

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　　British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award (国家勇敢奖).

　　Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1 along Pine Street, he s 2 heard a loud, strange behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England. “That must he a fire, It 3 .” Leech said. “The I quickly d 4 to do something. So I p 5 the door in and then Is 6 at the people inside. Then 1 started pouring milk e 7 ” He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. When firefighter r 8 the shop, the fire was under control.

　　Leech helped save the I 9 of eight people in the flats above the shops. “It was hard work o 10 all those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.