Five teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, are making music from garbage. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things. The guitars are boxes. The horn (喇叭) is made from pipes . The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack, who was in eighth grade at the time, decided to make a homemade guitar. After some hard work, he ended up building it from a cereal box, a big ruler and some little sticks. After Jack showed his guitar to his friend Ollie, Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the rubbish box,” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually recycle old things.”
Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans. Evan, 14, plays the guitar; Harrison, 15, plays the horns and the violin; and Austin, 16, plays the keyboard. They make up the band The Garbage-Men and play at local parties around. They wand to help people get interested in recycling old things. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really easy for people to understand,” Jack says. Their instruments may be garbage, but their message isn’t.
小題1:What are the Garbage-Men band’s instruments made from?
A. Big boxes.         
B. Little sticks.            
C. Old things.
小題2:Which of the followings is NOT true?
A. Evan is the youngest in his band.     
B. Jack came out of the idea to make a band first.
C. There are five members in the Garbage-Men band.
小題3:Ollie’s drums are made of           .

A.                     B.                       C.
小題4:What do the five teenagers suggest people do?
A. Making instruments.    
B. Listen to music.         
C. Reuse garbage.
小題5:The best title of the passage is           .
A. Five music Fans        
B. Reduce, Reuse, Replay    
C. A Strange Band

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:B

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是5個(gè)少年組成了一個(gè)垃圾人樂隊(duì)，是Ollie先想起的這個(gè)主意。他們的樂器都是用舊東西制造的。他們的目的是建議人們回收利用垃圾。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。垃圾人樂隊(duì)的樂器是用什么制成的？根據(jù)文中The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things.可知樂器是用舊東西制成的，故選C。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。下面哪一個(gè)是錯(cuò)的？根據(jù)文中Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things.可知是Ollie先想出的主意而不是Jack，故選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。Ollie的鼓是用什么制成的？根據(jù)文中Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans.可知，他的“鼓”的材料是垃圾罐，故選擇A。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。這五位少年建議人們干什么？據(jù)Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things.可知，他們建議人們回收再利用舊東西。故選C。
小題5:主旨大意題。這個(gè)題目問的是，本文的題目是什么？本文講述的是垃圾人樂隊(duì)，他們的主題主要是倡導(dǎo)人們?nèi)セ厥赵倮美时疚牡念}目B。
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