It may seem to be a hard task to trace back the history of rap music, though you often see the informal music associated with highly informal dance style. As far as the origin of rap music is concerned, most people agree that it is from Afro-American and Latino Street culture of New York City. Not only in this city but in the surrounding areas there is the influence of African people and their culture.
Rap is a vocal (口頭的) style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. The term of rap music is the same with hip-hop music typically-consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap. If we see it carefully, then we will definitely notice that the music usually is sung at higher pitches (調(diào)). Most of the time rap music is associated with chorus. Though rap music was primarily an American music style with African influence over its music and lyrics, recently it has been spread to almost the entire world.
There is hardly any country or nation where rap music cannot be seen in some form or another, and it is one of the most popular music styles among the youngsters. However, when it comes to its history, it is believed that hip-hop or rap music started in the early 1970s，and gained much popularity throughout the world during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The history of rap music and hip-hop music is full of controversies (爭議) and bans, as the lyrics sometimes relate to drugs and crime; even most famous pop stars and hip-hop musicians and singers were found to be associated with the controversies in their life. For that reason, no matter how popular this music style was or still is, it has always had a bad reputation in the eyes of mainstream society.
小題1:The passage is mainly about _____.
A．when rap music started B．how rap music develops
C．what rap music is like D．why rap music is popular
小題2:The characteristics of rap music are _____.
A．solo, rhymes，beats and pops
B．speaking, rhythms，beats and solo
C．repeating, speaking, pops and chorus
D．speaking, rhymes, beats and chorus
小題3:Rap music is now one of the music styles mostly run after by _____.
A．the teenagers in Africa
B．a(chǎn)ll kinds of people in the world
C．the youngsters all over the world
D．the young people in the US
小題4:Rap music is often not well thought of by the mainstream because _____.
A．it comes from the lower class
B．it has a short history
C．it is associated with crimes and drugs
D．its music is full of controversies

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:C

試題分析：文章探究了說唱音樂歷史是如何發(fā)展的，同時對說唱音樂的普及進行了描寫。對于說唱音樂不入主流的原因也進行了闡述。
小題1:主旨題�？v觀全文，本文主要講解了說唱音樂的歷史，從文章第一句話就可知。故選B。
小題2:細節(jié)題。從文章第二自然段Rap is a vocal (口頭的) style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat.以及Most of the time rap music is associated with chorus.可知，說唱音樂的特點是說、押韻、敲擊及合唱形式。
小題3:細節(jié)題。從第三自然段There is hardly any country or nation where rap music cannot be seen in some form or another, and it is one of the most popular music styles among the youngsters.及第二自然段的最后一句話可知，說唱音樂在全世界的年輕人中都很流行。故選C。
小題4:細節(jié)推斷題。從最后一段The history of rap music and hip-hop music is full of controversies (爭議) and bans, as the lyrics sometimes relate to drugs and crime;可知，之所以不能被主流社會所接納的原因是它的歌詞涉及到一些犯罪事件和毒品問題。
點評：本文屬于說明文中較容易的文體。說明文是歷年高考很常見的文體，對于科技類的說明文比較難，而對于說物的文體較容易。本文中，把握好一個中心即說唱音樂的發(fā)展史。同時，此類文章細節(jié)題居多，在對文章看懂了的基礎(chǔ)在仔細對比選項和文章，即可得出答案。
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