Hip hop or rap (說(shuō)唱) music started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s. People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems.
Rapping in class.
Would you like to rap in class? Well, actually hip pop music is played in more than 10,000 schools in the USA. Why? There is a new school program called “Flocabulary” in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects. The words of the songs are just what students are studying. This makes learning easy and fun. Students and teachers are excited about the good results it has had on exam marks. Mr. Lee, a teacher in a high school, said, “I’ve used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students so crazy about history! You can’t imagine how well they remember what I teach! We even try to write our own songs.”
Whose idea was Flocabulary?
Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary. The word “Flocabulary” comes from the word “flow” and “vocabulary”. “Flow” is a rap word for “style”, or the way a rapper says the words of a song. “Vocabulary” means the words you have to learn in a language. How did he get the idea? Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song very easily. So, why not make lessons into songs? Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer, Blake produces hip hop songs for math, science and literature (文學(xué)). They are now used in schools with great success.
【小題1】 Rap music started ______ in the New York City in the 1970s.

A．in a high schoolB．in a music class
C．on the streetD．in a CD shop
【小題2】From the passage, we can learn “Flocabulary” is a program to ______.
A．write rap music B．remember the words of a song
C．write our own songs D．help teach school subjects
【小題3】Blake has produced hip hop sings for school subjects EXCEPT ______.
A．mathB．history
C．scienceD．Literature


【小題1】C
【小題2】D
【小題3】B

解析試題分析：這篇短文主要講述說(shuō)唱音樂(lè)20世紀(jì)70年代開(kāi)始于大街上，現(xiàn)在，它開(kāi)始走進(jìn)課堂，而且配上它之后，效果很好，進(jìn)一步講了Flocabulary的發(fā)起者是Blake，它用于學(xué)校的教學(xué)，取得了很大成功.
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從短文第一句話“Hip hop or rap (說(shuō)唱) music started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s.”可知說(shuō)唱音樂(lè)20世紀(jì)70年代開(kāi)始于大街上，故選 C。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從短文中這句話“There is a new school program called “Flocabulary” in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects.”可知Flocabulary”是用來(lái)幫助教學(xué)校不同科目的一個(gè)新程序，故選D。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從短文中這句話“Blake produces hip hop songs for math, science and literature”可知Blake沒(méi)有為history配歌曲，故選 B。
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