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Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am
tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings.It"s the spirit of America ,easy to understand,
slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States.It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of famers.They talk about love,crops or death.
The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad.At first, people
played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later.In the 1920s, people played
country songs on the radio,and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with
them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America"s most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song "Take Me
home, Country Roads" is well-known and people still play it today.
B.farmers" feelings
C.the lives of workers
D.workers" feelings
B.in the Southern United States
C.in the Northem United States
D.in the Western United States
B.in 1920
C.in the 1970s
D.in 1970
B.Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change.
C.Because country music talked about city people"s lives.
D.Because city people liked the country
B.A person who moved to towns
C.John Denver
D.Denver John
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so he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden.
That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography (摄影) was in 1837. That year, Daguerre,
another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different
way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was
called Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre"s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all
around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.
In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and
moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines.
But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard. Mathew Brady was
a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual
because they were very lifelike (栩栩如生的).
Photography also became a kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just
copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.
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2. The Daguerreotype was a kind of photo, wasn"t it?
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3. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in 1840, what did he have to do?
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4. Why was Mathew Brady famous?
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5. When did photography become a kind of art?
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