If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The

If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.
One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess”. He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: “Summertime and the living’ is easy. Fish are jumping’ and the cotton is high.” Leontyne Price sings the song.
The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money.
【小题1】Why did people write and record so many songs about summer?A．Summer is warm.B．They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm.C．They can do many activities outside.D．They like summer.【小题2】Which of following statements is NOT true?A．There are 1950s or 1960s songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation
from school.B．Many songs are about teenagers having fun in summer.C．Teenagers have not only fun and games but other things in summer.D．Some teenagers have to work to earn money in summer【小题3】Please choose an appropriate title for the passage.A．Summer.B．Children in Summer.C．Summer and Children.D．Songs about Summer.D

(答案→)D 解析：文章解释了美国的夏天是人们最喜欢的节日的原因。【小题1】D 细节题。根据文章第一句If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer.说明夏天是他们最喜欢的季节，所以他们才会写或记录很多鱼秋天有关的歌曲。【小题2】B 细节题。根据第三段1,2行The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school.说明B正确。【小题3】A 主旨大意题。文章是关于美国的夏天，故A正确。

这个问题我还想问问老师呢