第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Puerto Rico may be part of the USA but its music and dance is a mixture of both Spanish
and American rhythms. The country, as a result, is a mixture of the new and the old. It
exhibits the open American way of life yet remains the more formal Spanish influences.
This is showed in the buildings, not just the difference between the old and the modern in
urban areas but also in the countryside, where older buildings sit side by side with schools
and houses. It is found in the cooking, too many fast food restaurants together with local
cooking which has its roots in the mixture of culture of all the Caribbean and in the music
---rock music is played in beach holiday centers but in the hilly center, Puerto Rican music
can be heard. Old volcanic mountains, long motionless, take up a large part of the center,
with the highest peak, Cerro de Punta, at 1,338 metre in the Cordillera Central. The
mountains are surrounded by a coastal plain with the Atlantic shore beaches cooled all the
year round by trade winds.