City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often laugh at simple country ways. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today.

Perhaps it is so popular because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events—love, sadness, good times and bad times, it tells real life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more and more complicated(復(fù)雜的), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.

Country music, sometimes called country western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the West. The singers usually play the guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars.

At first city people said country music was low-class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War Ⅱ, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned to like country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.

Today country music is popular everywhere in the United States and Canada, in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. People sing it in their languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor farmers is now popular all over the world.

1.People enjoy country music because______.

A. it is about ordinary people B. it is easy to learn

C. it is free of charge D. it is very exciting

2.The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.

A. why people love country music in the United States

B. when people began to enjoy country music

C. how country music became more and more popular

D. where country music was most popular

3.From the last paragraph we can see that______.

A. all people enjoy country music all over the world

B. country music is well received all over the world

C. rich people love country music best of all

D. black people enjoy country music best of all

4.Which of the following can be used as the best title for this passage?

A. American Country Music

B. Life in the American Country

C. American Cowboys

D. American Radio Stations

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