The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere. Popular music in America is what every student likes.Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class,after class and at lunch.Students with cars buy large speakers (揚(yáng)聲器) and play the music loudly as they drive on the street. (2)
They also listen to the news about sports,the weather,politics,and activities of the American people.But most of the radio broadcast is music. (3)
They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state.Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country,young people buy his or her tapes.Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. (4)
Now the singer has become a national star. Besides pop music,there are two other kinds of music that are important to Americans. (5)
It tells stories about the common life of Americans.The other is called Western or country music.This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows when they were watching. Today,any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called Western or country music.
A.One is called folk music. B.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. C.Many young men like this kind of music. D.Wherever the singer goes,all the young people want to meet him or her. E.Pop or popular music fans are everywhere. F.Music is an international language. G.Pop or popular music singers make much money.
In March 2016,a group of people walked into a theater in New Mexico,USA to watch the movie Finding Nemo.The movie first hit the big screen in 2003 and it was a great success.Now it came back!What was (1)
about it this time?It was dubbed (配音) in Navajo.That's the (2)
spoken by the Navajo,one of the biggest Native American tribes (美洲土著部落).This movie wasn't made (3)
for fun,though.It was made to (4)
a dying language. The (5)
of people who speak Navajo is dropping.In 2014,only about 164,000 people (6)
it at home.That was down from about 173,000 in 2005. Like many other Native American languages,Navajo has been in trouble (7)
a long time.In the 1800 s,thousands of Native American kids were forced (強(qiáng)迫) to attend boarding schools.They (8)
to speak only English there.Over the years,fewer people learned (9)
native languages.Some of these languages have been lost forever. Today,many Navajo kids aren't good at speaking Navajo.Some people (10)
that if today's kids don't learn Navajo and pass it down,the language could disappear (消失).