It was such a solemn occasion that not even a child()a sound.
A.delivered
B.uttered
C.voiced
D.spoke
A.delivered
B.uttered
C.voiced
D.spoke
第3题
Each leader had a solemn look as he signed the peace treaty.
A.sincere
B.grave
C.honest
D.suspicious
第4题
第5题
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.online voting has simplified the whole process of voting, making it much cheaper and more efficient
B.online voting questions can be diverse, ranging from the plainest to the toughest
C.democracy is counted as something solemn and serious, a matter not done so informally online
D.lowering the voting age can encourage young people to join politics
第6题
The【30】of this music are as interesting as the music【31】, American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today were the Jazz【32】. They were brought to the Southern states【33】slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long【34】. When a Negro died, his friends and relatives【35】a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the【36】. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion, 【37】on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their【38】, but the living were glad to be alive. The band played【39】mu-sic, improvising (即兴表演) on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes【40】at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form. of Jazz.
(21)
A.Before
B.At
C.In
D.On
第7题
An Early Form. of Jazz Music
Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style. of their own. At the turn of the last century,(51)jazz was born, America had no prominent.(52)of its own. No one knows exactly when it was invented or by whom. But it began to be(53)in the early 1890s. Jazz is America's contribution to(54)music. In contrast to classical music, which(55)formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free in form. It bubbles with energy,(56)the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz(57)like America. And so it does today. The(58)of the music are as interesting as the music itself. American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz pioneers. They were brought to the Southern states(59)slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long hours. When a Negro died his friends and relatives(60)a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the(61). On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion.(62)on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their number, but the living were glad to be(63). The band played(64)music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes(65)at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form. of jazz.
A.while
B.when
C.since
D.as
第8题
【C1】
A.Inferior to
B.In contrast to
C.Similar to
D.Superior to
第9题
The funeral was over, -the tread of many feet, bearing the heavy burden of two broken lives, had been to the lonely graveyard, and had come again, -each footstep lighter and more unconstrained as each one went his way from the great old tragedy of Death to the common cheerful life.
The solemn black clock stood swaying with its eternal "tick-tock, tick-cock," in the kitchen of the brown house on Orr's Island. There was there that sense of a stillness that can be left, -such as settles down on a dwelling when any of its inmates have passed though its doors for the last time, to go whence they shall not return. The best room was shut up and darkened, with only so much light as could fall through a little heart-shaped hole in the window-shutter, -for except on solemn visits, or prayer-meeting or weddings, or funerals, that room formed no part of the daily family scenery.
The kitchen was clean and ample, with a great open fireplace and wide stone hearth, and oven on one side, and rows of old-fashioned splint-bottomed chairs against the wall. A table scoured no snowy whiteness, and a little work-stand whereon lay the Bible, the Missionary Herald, and the Weekly Christian Mirror, before named, formed the principal furniture. One feature, however, must not be forgotten, -a great sea-chest, which had been the companion of Zephaniah through all the countries of the earth. Old, and battered, and unsightly it looked, yet report said that there was good store within of that which men for the most part respect more than anything else; and, indeed, it proved often when a deed of grace was to be done -when a woman was suddenly made a widow in a coast gale, or a fishing -smack was run down in the fogs off the banks, leaving in some neighboring cottage a family of orphans, -in all such cases, the opening of this sea-chest was an event of good omen to the bereaved; for Zephaniah had a large heart and a large hand, and was apt to take it out full of silver dollars when once it went in. So the ark of the covenant could not have been looked on with more reverence than the neighbors usually showed to Captain Pennel's sea-chest.