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P assage 1 Around the world young people are spending a great deal of money to listen to pop or rock music. It is said that at least fifty singers have incomes of between two million and six million dollars a year. “It doesn’t sense,” says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, “Performers aren’t worth so much money. In fact, nobody is.” But the stars’ fans seem to disagree. Those who love their songs spend about two billion dollars a year for recorders. They pay 150 million dollars to see the stars in person. Then they soon want to see the stars in movies or on TV. Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don Mclean, who wrote and sang “America Pie”. He got more than a million dollars from recordings of this song. How do the stars use their money? Most of the young stars simply throw the money around. One of them, once, bought himself a pair of eyeglasses which is worth 5000 American dollars and two modern cars, “one for each foot”. Many of the stars who have just returned from a travel have to pay their bills and then buy new toys. When they need money again, they do another travel. They save no money, buy no stocks and live from hand to mouth. （ ）1. Some of the rock stars have incomes of __________. A. more than six million dollars B. less than two million dollars C. about seven million dollars D. between two million and six million dollars （ ）2. “Performers aren’t worth so much money” in the second paragraph means _________. A. They shouldn’t make so little money B. They should get even more money C. They shouldn’t get so much money D. No one of them should get so little money （ ）3. The admirers pay 150 million dollars __________. A. to sing together with the stars B. to make records of the pop songs C. to see the stars in person D. to buy records and tickets （ ）4. What does the underlined word “toy” mean in the passa