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(2014·河南省普通高中毕业班适应性测试)English songs have been very popular for people around the world for many decades.Singers, from Elvis Presley to Ricky Martin, from the Beatles to Eminen and from Natalie Cole to Britney Spears, have all been sitting in everyone’s heart, even for people who don’t speak English. But will you have better English skills if you listen to English songs for a long time?

From my experiences, some people listen to English songs for 20－30 years but still haven’t accomplished any good English skills. Some people choose English songs to

be the “main learning approach”， but most of them have failed.

Listening to English songs does not help you to speak English fluently.

It does help you gain some vocabularies. Most of them are unusual ones that

you don’t use in your everyday life. You won’t learn the sentence “It is a complicate project. We really need to meet the deadline.” in any English songs.

People like using English songs to practice English skills because it’s easy and enjoyable.They think that sitting in the car listening to English songs day by day can improve their English skills. It is not that actually.

You will not improve your listening skills because normal people don’t speak with melody (乐调). People don’t talk like Eminen’s songs (well, actually, some teenagers do). You can’t get yourself familiar with English pronunciation or accent just from listening to English songs. The words that they pronounce in the songs are not the words that you will hear in your everyday life.It often even confuses you more how English is pronounced.

I would fully encourage you to watch English movies, listen to radio news or other normal talks, but not music. Of course, you can consume it for fun but not the aim to improve your English skills.

1．What’s the text mainly about?

A．How English songs help people practice English skills.

B．Who has made English songs popular all over the world.

C．Why people won’t improve their English by listening to English songs.

D．Where people can find good English songs to practise their English skills.

2．English songs are helpful for English learners if they want to ________.

A．speak English fluently