Section A 知识点题库

They are the light music in the classroom.

I shall my decision.

Please make sure to the gas and electricity in the house before leaving for holiday.

    There are many kinds of music in the world, pop music, classical music, folk music and so on. Do you know country music? It's a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America, I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.

    Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It's like the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.

    Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops or death. The life in the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.

    When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for jobs, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.

    John Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song Take Me Home, Country Roads is well known and people still play it today.

—So it is. I prefer ____________rather than ____________on such a rainy day.

J. K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best-sellers in the world. She was (bear) in Britain on July 3lst, 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger her. Both of the girls enjoyed (listen) to their father's bedtime stories, especially stories about magic.

J. K. Rowling started writing when she was just a little girl. On a long train trip in 1995, she made a (decide) to write a book about a boy was born with magic but he didn't know.

J. K. Rowling (spend) nearly two years on her first Harry Potter book. When it came out in June, 1997, the book was so popular that it (translate) into many different languages and sold around the world.

In the book, Harry Potter is (friend), brave and clever. So when children read about Harry, they all dream being like him when they grow up. Maybe that's the reason the books are so popular with parents and kids.

J. K. Rowling is very happy with her success.