Question

Hip hop or rap (说唱) music started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s. People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems.

Rapping in class.

Would you like to rap in class? Well, actually hip pop music is played in more than 10,000 schools in the USA. Why? There is a new school program called “Flocabulary” in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects. The words of the songs are just what students are studying. This makes learning easy and fun. Students and teachers are excited about the good results it has had on exam marks. Mr. Lee, a teacher in a high school, said, “I’ve used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students so crazy about history! You can’t imagine how well they remember what I teach! We even try to write our own songs.”

Whose idea was Flocabulary?

Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary. The word “Flocabulary” comes from the word “flow” and “vocabulary”. “Flow” is a rap word for “style”, or the way a rapper says the words of a song. “Vocabulary” means the words you have to learn in a language. How did he get the idea? Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song very easily. So, why not make lessons into songs? Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer, Blake produces hip hop songs for math, science and literature (文学). They are now used in schools with great success.

1. Rap music started ______ in the New York City in the 1970s.

A. in a high school B. in a music class

C. on the street D. in a CD shop

2.From the passage, we can learn “Flocabulary” is a program to ______.

A. write rap music B. remember the words of a song

C. write our own songs D. help teach school subjects

3.Blake has produced hip hop sings for school subjects EXCEPT ______.

A.math B. history

C. science D. Literature

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.B

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要讲述说唱音乐20世纪70年代开始于大街上，现在，它开始走进课堂，而且配上它之后，效果很好，进一步讲了Flocabulary的发起者是Blake，它用于学校的教学，取得了很大成功.

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考点：社会现象类阅读。