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语法填空(十四) 美国的流行音乐文化+中国的剪纸艺术
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
A
The students in America like pop music very much. You can often see that students carry small 1. (radio) with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music 2. (loud) while they drive in the street.
Adult drivers listen to music by the car radio when they drive to work. They 3. listen to the news about the weather, sports, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes 4. (be) about music.
Pop music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape 5. radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer 6. (hear)all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. 7. the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Soon the singer will become a 8. (nation) star.
There are some 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. 9. 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, the music about country life or the love between a country boy and his girl is called 10. (west) or country music.
B
As traditional Chinese art, paper cutting has a long history. The first and earliest paper cutting 11. (find) in China 1,500 years ago. But this traditional art is at risk of disappearing now. 12. (lucky), Voyo Woo, a Chinese immigrant(移民) in America, is trying to bring this art back to life.
One Saturday in 2014, Ms Woo 13. (hold) a paper cutting show at a shopping centre near Washington D.C. She got much fun and peace by doing it. She hoped more people would enjoy it.
Ms Woo began to study the art of paper cutting 14. a 14-year-old girl in her home town in China. She said all the students at school had to learn paper cutting. But she had a deep love for it. So her teacher spent more time 15. (teach) her after class. Later, she won the second prize in a national painting and art competition. Ms Woo went to America after she finished college in 2008.Soon after 16. , she took part in an activity to promote(宣传) Chinese paper cutting. And then she was invited 17. (show) the art in many important activities. “It is important to promote this art to Americans or anyone 18. is interested in it. Maybe it will make this art more popular,” Ms Woo said.
From the art of paper cutting, people can know about the values and history of Chinese culture and the stories of 19. (people) life. Ms Woo uses the art as a tool to show Chinese culture to people who know little about it. Chinese art is not only for Chinese, but 20. for people all over the world.
参考答案
A 1.radios 2.loudly 3.also 4.are 5.which/that
6.is heard 7.Wherever 8.national 9.Another 10.western
B 11.was found 12.Luckily 13.held 14.as 15.teaching
16.that 17.to show 18.who 19.people's 20.also
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