Hip hop or rap（说唱）music, as it is also called, started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s. But today many countries have their own kind of hip hop music. Rapping means speaking to the rhythm（节奏；韵律）of the music, and it is an important part of the music. People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems.

Rapping in class.

Would you like to rap in class？Well, actually, hip hop music is played in more than 10,000 schools in the USA. Why？There is a new school programme called “Flocabulary” in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects. The words of the songs are just what students are studying. This makes learning easy and fun. Students and teachers are excited about the positive（积极的；正面的）results it has had on exam marks . One teacher said, “I've used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students so crazy about history！You can't imagine how well they imagine and how well they remember what I teach！We even try to write our own songs. ”

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Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary. The word “Flocabulary” comes from the word “flow” and “vocabulary”. “Flow” is a rap word for “style”,or the way a rapper says the words of a song. “Vocabulary” means the words you have to learn in a language. How did he got the idea？Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song very easily.

So, why not make lessons into songs？Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer ,Blake produces hip hop songs for maths, science and literature（文学）. They are now used in schools with great success.

【小题1】What can we infer from the passage？

A．Artists created hip hop or rap music.

B．Hip hop comes from the public.

C．Rap music hasn't been widely spread.

D．Songs sung on the street are called hip hop.

【小题2】Rapping has now becoming in many schools in the USA.
A.an assistant means of teaching

A．contents of exams
B．an interesting game	C．art lessons

【小题3】Which of the following statements is NOT true？

A．Hip hop songs in class are popular with the students.

B．Learning results are better than expected through rapping in class.

C．The words of the songs are closely connected with what the students learn.

D．The students begin to write hip hop songs to improve their studies.

【小题4】Which is the best subheading（下标题）for Para-graph 3？

A．What does the word “Flow” mean?	B．Who is Blake Harrison?
C．Whose idea was Flocabulary?	D．When did Blake learn rap?

【小题5】The passage mainly talks about ____________.

A．Flocabulary

B．the history of rap

C．American education

D．Blake Harrison