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        Spring is a wonderful season to celebrate rebirth and new life. The long, cold winter is over. The weather is warmer and sunnier. The trees again have leaves and the flowers are blooming. The season represents hope, joy and beauty. At this time, many people think of this classical music piece—Spring, which shows happiness. Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi wrote it in the seventeen hundreds.

        However, not all songs about spring are happy. This song written and sung by K.D. Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places. She recorded I Dream of Spring in 2008.

        Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote It Might as Well Be Spring for the movie State Fair in 1945.Frank Sinatra sings it. It is a feeling of restlessness or excitement brought on by the coming of spring. Richard Rodgers also wrote Spring Is Here, this time with Lorenz Hart. Ella Fitzgerald sings this song about feeling lonely during this season.

        Frank Loesser wrote the sad song, Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year. Why has the season been delayed? Because the singer's lover has left her. Sarah Vaughn released(发行) her version of the song in 1953.

        By now you may be thinking, "Enough with the sad songs, already!"OK ,then how about a cowboy song? Gene Autry was one of the America's most famous singing cowboys. He recorded When It's Spring time in the Rockies in 1937.

        And finally, we'll leave you with a sunny song called Up Jumped Spring. Freddie Hubbard wrote this jazz song in 1977 and Billy Taylor Trio performs it.

    1. (1) If you are in a bad mood, you'd better listen to________.
      A . Up Jumped Spring B . I Dream of Spring C . Spring Is Here D . Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
    2. (2) It Might as Well Be Spring is a song that________.
      A . is also called State Fair B . is sung by Ella Fitzgerald C . has a lonely feeling D . was written by two people
    3. (3) According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
      A . Most songs about spring are written by Italian composers. B . K. D. Lang was good at writing happy songs. C . Sarah Vaughn sang the song Up Jumped Spring first. D . Gene Autry was a famous cowboy singer before K.D. Lang.

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