IV. Read the following passages and choose the best answers below:

                                                                     FOLK MUSIC

Pop music has always been influenced by other forms of music. An important form is folk music. Folk songs are the songs composed and sung by country people. The songs may be hundreds of years old, so nobody knows who originally composed them. Modern music is often music for dancing. In Britain it was traditionally played with instruments like flute, accordion, etc.

In the 1950s and 1960s the people who wrote songs and played them with acoustic guitars were also called folk singers. The songs were often “protest songs”, complaining of bad things happening in society.

1. Which form of music is pop music mainly influenced by?

A. classical music             B. folk music                     C. jazz                               D. rock ‘n’ roll

2. Who were folk songs composed by?

A. old singers              B. city people                          C. modern musicians              D. countryside people

3. According to the passage, what is modern music often used for?

A. singing only                        B. playing with guitars                        C. dancing                              D. forming pop music

4. In the 1956s, what did people play folk songs with?

A. guitars                          B. flutes                             C. drums                           D. pianos

5. Why are folk songs called “protect songs”?

A. Because they are sung by country people.                         B. Because they are hundreds of years old.

C. Because nobody knows who originally composed them.

D. Because they complain about bad things happening in society.