The Luck of the Irish

    Look at a map of Britain, and the island on the left is Ireland. It’s a small but beautiful country with a long tradition of folk music. Up until 10 years ago just about the only thing that Ireland was famous for was its specialty black beer.

   Now Ireland is famous around the world for its music with names like "Kenya","U2" ,"Van Morrison"and more recently "the Corers". "Boyzone",one of the world's top boy bands ,is from Ireland too.What's more,Boyzone member shane has twin sisters,Adele and Heavy,who are members of "B Witched"

   The "Boyzone"story is interesting because they were created in 1993 by Dublin nightclub owner John Reynolds.They advertised in newspapers to find members for the group and 300wannabe pop stars applied!

    Ronan,who was just 17 when he dropped out of school to make his bid for stardom,and shane,who had been working as trained mechanic in his father's garage when he left to join Boyzone,were both lucky enough to be chosen. The other members are shoe-shop attendant stephen lately,former mechanic Mike Graham and one-time clothes store assistant Keith Dully.

   Many people expect bands that have been created by the music industry to produce boring music which doesn't become popular. Even the boys themselves knew they the would not easily achieve international pop music success.

    Boyzone quickly proved that they were more than just pretty faces and have sold millions of records around the world.At the moment ,they are not big stars in America,but they say that will change,when they begin a tour of the United States.

    Ronan will shortly also start recording as a solo artist. That does not mean the band will spilt yet,but we can expect Boyzone to split sometime in the next 18 months or so.Ronan has also recently become involved as one of the managers of new Irish boy band "West Life" whose song "Swear It Again"has recently been Number 1 in the British charts.

1.Ireland is famous for         now.

    A．its black beer                       B．its long tradition

    C．popular music                        D．its scenery

2.The words “wannabe pop stars” in the third paragraph mean       .

    A．the pops who want to join the band

    B．the persons who want to become pop stars

    C．the pop stars who want to become more popular

    D．the persons who want to be as famous as they are

3.Boy zone was formed by       members in 1993.

    A．3                B．4                C．5                D．6

4.Acording to the passage, we know that         .

    A．Boy zone will split some day

    B．Boy zone was successful because it was created by music industry

    C．The boys in Boy zone were certain that they would be famous one day

    D．Boy zone are going to perform in the States for Americans love them very much

 

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】略

 

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