Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42. Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, and “America’s great contribution to music”. It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in the “jazz age” of the 1920s, in the “swing era” of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modem jazz in the late...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, and “America’s great contribution to music”. It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in the “jazz age” of the 1920s, in the “swing era” of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modem jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and finally to Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds go back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and comet player, is generally considered to have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891.
What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of improvisation. Jazz displayed a break from traditional music where a composer wrote an entire piece of music on paper, leaving the musicians to break their backs playing exactly what was written on the score. In a Jazz piece, however, the song is simply a starting point, or sort of skeletal guide for the Jazz musicians to improvise around. Actually, many of the early Jazz musicians were bad sight readers and some couldn’t even read music at all. Generally speaking, these early musicians couldn’t make very much money and were stuck working menial jobs to make a living. The second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians included such memorable players as Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton. These men formed small bands and took the music of earlier musicians, improved its complexity, and gained greater success. This music is known as "hot Jazz” due to the enormously fast speeds and rhythmic drive.
A young comet player by the name of Louis Armstrong was discovered by Joe Oliver inNew Orleans. He soon grew up to become one of the greatest and most successful musicians of all time, and later one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other talented early Jazz musicians changed the way we look at music.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. many early Jazz musicians had poor sight
B. there is no slow music in Jazz
C. many early Jazz musicians had little formal musical training
D. the comet is the most common musical instrument used in Jazz
Louis Armstrong, who (1) ……was………. born in 1890 and(2) ……died……….. in 1971, was a very famous jazz musician. He used to be known as “Satchmo” and this nickname stayed with him all his (3)………life……. As a child in New Orleans, he learnt to (4) ……play……… the trumpet while he was living in a special home for children who(5) ………had…… got into trouble with the police. When he had finished his stay in the home, he (6) ……joined……… various bands and then he formed his own. Between 1925 (7) ……and……… 1928 he made about 60 records. These records made him one (8) ……of……… the first solo stars in the history of pop (9) ……music………. When he died, he had (10) ……been……… making records and he had been touring all over the (11) ……world……… for more than forty years, and he (12) ……was……… just as popular (13) ………as…… he had been before. He even (14) ………was…….. a number one pop record – What A Wonder World – (15) ……in……….. the 1960s.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, who (1) was born in 1890 and(2) died in 1971, was a very famous jazz musician. He used to be known as “Satchmo” and this nickname stayed with him all his (3) life.As a child in New Orleans, he learnt to (4) play the trumpet while he was living in a special home for children who(5) had got into trouble with the police. When he had finished his stay in the home, he (6) joined various bands and then he formed his own. Between 1925 (7) and 1928 he made about 60 records. These records made him one (8) of the first solo stars in the history of pop (9) music .When he died, he had (10) been making records and he had been touring all over the (11) world for more than forty years, and he (12) was just as popular (13) as he had been before. He even (14) had a number one pop record – What A Wonder World – (15) in the 1960s.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong sinh năm 1890 và mất năm 1971, là một nhạc sĩ nhạc jazz rất nổi tiếng. Ông thường được gọi là "Satchmo" và biệt danh này ở cùng với ông suốt cuộc đời của mình. Như một đứa trẻ ở New Orleans, ông đã học chơi kèn trong khi ông đang sống trong một ngôi nhà đặc biệt cho trẻ em đã gặp rắc rối với cảnh sát. Khi ông kết thúc thời gian ở nhà, ông đã tham gia nhiều ban nhạc khác nhau và sau đó anh thành lập nhóm riêng. Giữa năm 1925 và 1928, ông tạo ra khoảng 60 bản ghi. Những kỷ lục này đã biến ông thành một ngôi sao solo đầu tiên trong lịch sử nhạc pop. Khi ông qua đời, ông đã lập kỉ lục và anh đã lưu diễn khắp thế giới suốt hơn bốn mươi năm, và ông cũng nổi tiếng như ông đã từng làm trước đây. Thậm chí ông đã có một kỷ lục số một - Thế giới kỳ diệu - trong thập niên 1960.