Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Music is
an international language. Popular music in America is what every student
likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music b{#blank#}1{#/blank#}class, after class and at lunch, Students
with cars buy large speakers and play music l{#blank#}2{#/blank#}as they drive on the street. Adult
drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also
listen to the n{#blank#}3{#/blank#}about
sports, the weather, and activities of American people. Most of the radio
programs are music.
Pop or
popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio
starts to use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the
country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the m{#blank#}4{#/blank#}from these tapes comes to the singer.
Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the
singer has become a national s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.
There are
o{#blank#}6{#/blank#}kinds
of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has
stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or
country music. This was done by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows
they were watching. Today, a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}music
about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called
western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called
classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the
symphonies of Beethoven.
