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 Host:      Welcome back, music lovers, to ”I Love That
               Song”!  The game show where we test your
               musical knowledge to the extreme! Let’s get
               started! Team A... Guess this tune¹:

Team A:  Carrying Your Love With Me by George
               Straight! The genre² is country music!

 Host:      You are right! one hundred points to team
               A! Now, for our next cut.

Team B: Thong Song by Sisqo! I believe the genre is
               R&B?

Host:      One hundred big points for team B! For all
               our viewers the  acronym  R&B stands for
               Rhythm  and Blues³. On that note,  DJ,  play
               our next song!

 Team B:   Superstar by The Carpenters!
 Host:         And the genre?

 Team B:    Um... Um... Adult Contemporary?

 Host:      That’s right! A hundred points! Uh oh! That
               sound means it’s  double  or  nothing! The
               songs are more difficult and the points are
               doubled! Let’s hear our next song!

 Team A:    Too  easy! That  song  is  Kinslayer  by  the
                  Finnish power metal group, Nightwish!

 Host:      You are correct! Very  impressive  team  A!
               And it seems we have a tie! It’s  time  now
               for the tie-breaker round! Each  team  will
               be played three songs and they must tell us
               the genre of each song in less than five sec-
               onds! Team A, are you ready?

 Team A:       Ready!
 Host:         Let’s hear it!

 Team A:       Hip⁴ Hop⁵, Classical and Gothic metal!

 Host:         You are right! Team B, the pressure is on,
               if you get all of them right, we will move on
               to sudden death. If you miss one, you lose!
               DJ, Let’s hear it!

 Team B:       Rap, Disco and... and...

1 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

2 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

3 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。

4 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

5 hop   

n.单脚跳，跳跃；vi.单脚跳，跳跃；着手做某事；vt.跳跃，跃过

参考例句：

• The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.孩子们举行比赛，看谁单足跳跃最快。
• How long can you hop on your right foot?你用右脚能跳多远？