This week Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson will tell you about Chuck Berry．Chuck Berry，born on October 18，1926，is often called the father of rock and roll．He is one of the most popular and influential performers of rhythm－and－blues and rock‘n’roll music during the 1950s，1960s and 1970s．
He started singing in church when he was six years old．His interest in music stuck with him．A lot of Chuck Berry’s material is about teenage life，especially school．Chuck Berry left school when he was 17．He headed west with two friends，but they did not get far．They were arrested after they used a gun to steal a car in Kansas City，Missouri．He was set free after four years.
Chuck Berry signed his first recording contract in 1955，with the company Chess Records．Because one of his early hits，“Rock＆Roll Music”，hit big in the United States then，which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews．Many other famous bands copied it again and again．
Filmmaker Taylor Hackford made a documentary called“Hail! Hail! Rock‘n’Roll”, named for a Chuck Berry song．It centered on the making of a concert to honor the musician on his 60th birthday in 1986．Guitarist Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones organized the concert．Listening to Chuck Berry songs got him interested in music．In Keith Richards’words，“I didn’t dream I could make a living at it but that’s what I wanted to do．”More than 75 artists and bands have done their own versions of Chuck Berry songs．
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland，Ohio，included Chuck Berry in its first year of honors in 1986．The Hall of Fame had this to say：“While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll，Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together．”
Thank you for your listening．Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson were your announcers．
小題1:The underlined words“hit big”in Paragraph 3 probably mean“__________”．
A．won great SuccessB．made rapid progress
C．got into big troubleD．made a small difference
小題2:Guitarist Keith Richards is mentioned in Paragraph 4 to show ___________．
A．music is a way of making a lifeB．Chuck Berry influenced him a lot
C．he disliked Chuck Berry in factD．he is a real fan of Chuck Berry
小題3:Which of the following about Chuck Berry is true?
A．Chuck Berry was the first to invent rock and roll on his own．
B．Chuck Berry was put into prison for leaving school in 1943．
C．Chuck Berry can be said to have formed rock and roll’s basic structure．
D．Chuck Berry is the most popular and influential performer．
小題4:Where does this text probably come from?
A．An advertisement．B．A science fiction．
C．A magazine．D．A radio report．

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:D

試題分析：廣播電臺(tái)介紹Chuck Berry的節(jié)目，里面包括Chuck Berry年輕時(shí)的經(jīng)歷，他的音樂(lè)風(fēng)格等。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews．Many other famous bands copied it again and again．可知“hit big”是won great Success“獲得巨大成功”的意思，選 A
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第四段的句子：Guitarist Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones organized the concert．Listening to Chuck Berry songs got him interested in music．Chuck Berry 對(duì)Guitarist Keith Richards 影響很大，選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第五段的句子：“While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll，Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together．”可知 Chuck Berry 可以說(shuō)是形成搖滾樂(lè)的基本的形式，選C
小題4:推理題：從最后一段的句子：Thank you for your listening．Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson were your announcers．可知這是廣播電臺(tái)的節(jié)目，選D
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