—           . Maybe it is.

    Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.

    Adult(成年的)drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.

    Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.

    There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk(民间)music. It tells stories about the common(普通)life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.

    Mary liked to meet famous people. One day she asked her husband to take her to a very expensive restaurant in the city because someone said that a lot of movie stars would eat there, and she hoped to see some of them very much.

    It was 7 pm and there were not many people in the restaurant. Soon after they had ordered their meal, a man and a woman came into the restaurant and sat down at a table next to them. They were wearing beautiful clothes, and looked just like movie stars.

    Mary said to her husband, "Look at those people, Jack! I'm sure I've seen their pictures in a newspaper. "

    The man and the woman gave their order to the waiter, and when the waiter brought Mary and Jack their drink, Mary asked him, "Do you know who those people are?"

    "Oh, they're not movie stars, "he answered.

    "Really?" Mary asked in surprise. "How do you know that?"

    "Because they asked me who you were, ''he answered.

—    . But he gets up late on weekends.

—I like it very much. It's      interesting      exciting.