【2014年四川省内江市中考】
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
By the time Rihanna was seventeen ,she had released (发行) her first album and had an international hit with her first single (单曲) Pon de Replay.
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael , Barbados in 1988 . She grew up there with her two younger brothers . As a child , she loved singing . She formed her first group with friends from secondary school when she was just fifteen . In 2004 friends introduced the group to American record producer Evan Rogers ,who was on holiday in Barbados . Rogers thought Rihanna could be a star in America,so she moved there aged sixteen to take up music after she finished school. Rihhanna  lived with Rogers and his wife . Then she worked for Def Jam Recordings and started working on her first album , Music of the Sun .It came out at in 2005 and got into the top ten . Over 69,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week alone . It went on to sell over two million copies worldwide and Rihanna quickly became a big star . Her second album , A Girl Like Me ,came out a year later and included the song SOS , which was her first number one hit in America. In 2007 Rihanna brought out her third album , Good Girl Gone Bad ,which had more dance music than the first two albums.
Rihanna sold more than fifteen million album and forty - five million singles worldwide between 2005 and 2010 ,the most of any artist at the same time . However ,she manages to find time for her charity work ,too . She has performed in several concerts to raise money for charity and in 2006 she created her Believe Foundation to help sick children . She also took part in Gucci’s activities to raise money for children in Africa.
What had Rihanna released before she was seventeen ?

A．An album but no singles.

B．A single but not an album.

C．An album and at least one single.

D．Two album and a single Pon de Replay.

Why did Rihanna move to America ?

A．To try to become a famous singer.

B．To form her first music group.

C．To meet the record producer Evan Rogers.

D．To record her album ,A Girl Like Me ,with the help of Rogers.

Which is true about Rihanna’s first album ?

A．It included her first number one hit in the US.

B．It sold69,000 copies in total.

C．It made Rihanna a star.

D．It came out before she finished school.

It can be learnt from the text that Rihanna ______.

A．Wants to start a charity to help sick children

B．Has helped to raise money for African children

C．Has organized some concerts to raise money for charity

D．Is producing another album for her Believe Foundation

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