Passage 27

学霸导读 让我们一起看看西部乡村音乐的由来吧！

Western country music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. It is a mixture （混合） of music f 1 all of these places.

In the west of America, cowboys had to take c 2 of the cattle. They had to watch （看护） them all day and all night because the cattle were nervous and sometimes ran a 3 . A cowboy’s life was l 4 and dangerous. When he was alone in the desert with the cattle, he drank strong coffee to stay awake at night. He also sang music to the cattle to make them quiet. Of course, the cowboys also sang music when they t 5 to town to relax and have a good time.

In the south of America, many people came from Ireland, Scotland, and England. Other people came from France and Canada. They enjoyed their own kind of music. When they visited their friends and families on h 6 like Thanksgiving and Christmas, they usually sang and played country music.

Western country music describes life. It talks about love, jobs, home and money. It talks about friends and enemies, farms and crops. People in many parts of the world like western country music b 7 everyone knows something about these ideas.

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高频词汇

western adj. 西部的；西方国家的

nervous adj. 担心的，紧张不安的

dangerous adj . 危险的

describe v. 描述，描写

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