It is a typical way to relax for Japanese businessmen.They use it to take away their stress after work.However, there is an obstacle to this: since most Japanese houses are still made of wood,

　　it would be very annoying to the neighbors to sing into a microphone at night.Seizing upon the opportunity, businessmen created the karaoke box, a roadside facility containing karaoke equipment.Karaoke boxes are soundproofed rooms, closed with a door, placed on roadsides where people can sing.The first “Karaoke box” was placed in a rice camp in the countryside in 1984.It was built from a converted freight car (改装的货运车).Now, the karaoke boom has even spread abroad and it has also been attracting the attention of the countries trying to improve their literacy rate (识字率) as a good educational tool.

　　1.According to the text, we can learn that karaoke ________.

　　A.originated from the biggest city of Japan

　　B.originated in the form of singing to tapes

　　C.can help you achieve the level of professional singers

　　D.first appeared in the army to relieve stress for soldiers

　　2.The underlined word “soundproofed” in Paragraph 4 most probably means “________”.

　　A.recording sounds repeatedly

　　B.receiving sound signals

　　C.making sound more clear

　　D.stopping sound from being heard outside

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