24、Different sounds make the whole world more lovely, especially the sound of music I like music of all kinds and I enjoy doing work，even hard work with beautiful music around me．

    When I was in the country of America in i988，and that was about more than twenty years ago，I did many things．But one thing that I can’t forget is that I just fell in love with the different kinds of American songs as soon as I got there，folk（民间的）songs，country songs，and western songs。It was the first time for me to listen to real American songs．So I bought a walkman（随身听）and listened to the songs whenever I had free time．There were no mp3s or mp4s，not to say mp5s in those days And American people were just beginning to use computers and they were not popular then．So I recorded （录制）some of my favorite songs on some cassette tapes to take back home a year later．Believe it or not．I learnt to sing some American popular songs myself at the time．From listening to the songs and singing them I not only improved my English，but also I got to know more about the life of American people．I really killed two birds with one stone! I’m really happy because I can listen to all kinds of songs very easily from the Internet now．I’m sure I will live，listening to American songs all my life

1．Where did the writer go in the year of 1988?

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2．How many kinds of songs are talked about in the article?

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3．Why did the writer buy a walkman when he was in America?

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4．Why did he record some Songs on cassette tapes?

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5．Can you try to put the sentence“ I really killed-two birds with one stone’’ into Chinese?