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What are your clothes made of? Are they made of cotton or wool? Some students in Shandong wear different things. Their clothes are made of discs(光盘) or old clothes!

On October 7th, 36 students in Linyi, Shandong Province, wore beautiful clothes in a show. Their clothes were made of all kinds of things.

The show gave the students a chance to make things with their own hands. It also helped them learn to make good use of waste and not to throw everything away.

Students had lots of good ideas. Some found used things, like old clothes, to make new dresses.

“We hope to save energy. Our world is short of energy. So I don’t want to just throw old things away,” said Xie Jing at Linyi Art School.

Xie had more than 20 discs on her nice blue dress. She got them from her family and friends.

“Though the discs are old, I look very cool in them!” she said.

Song Dandan, a student from the school, looked like a farmer in her straw(稻草) coat and hat. She picked the straw from the fields and put them all together.

“I want to show what people wore in the past.” she said.

Du Yue made clothes for astronauts(宇航员)! She had white cloth all over her. When she walked, she tried to be slow. It looked like she was walking on the moon.

“I hope to wear it in space(太空) some day. I wish that I could walk on the moon!” she said.

1.The passage mainly talks about ____.

2. The students’ clothes were made of ____.

3. The underlined(画线) word “short” in the sentence “Our world is short of energy. ” has the same meaning as “short” in the sentence “____”

4.The three students used all these things except ____ to made clothes.

5. The show tells people ____.

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（精神） 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（庄家） 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.

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1.Country music is usually about _______.

A. students’ feelings B. farmers’s feelings

C. the lives of workers D. crops

2.Country music developed ________.

A. in John Denver’s city B. in the Southern United States

C. in the Northern United States D. the United States

3.People bagan to make country song records _______.

A. in the 1920s B. in 1920 C. in the 1970s D. in 1970s

4.Why did Country music become popular in America?

A. Because city people liked the music.

B. Because people in the city moved to the countryside.

C. Because country music talked about city people’s lives.

D. Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change.

5.Who is famous for the song “Take Me Home,Country Roads”?

A. A farmer in the countryside. B. A person who moved to towns

C. John Denver. D. Denver John.