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A．it expresses the African roots of American culture.
B．in jazz all characteristics of the essence of America come together.
C．individual brilliance outshines the group efforts of the rhythm section.
D．it shows the African culture dominated much of what is American.
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第1题
M: I like classical music, but not as much as jazz.
Q: What did the man say about classical music？
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A．He does not like it at all.
B．He prefers classical music to jazz.
C．He likes jazz more than classical music.
D．He likes jazz as much as classical music.
第2题
听力原文：M: How did you get started in jazz singing？
W: It was a zigzag route. I went from country music to singing madrigals, to singing folk, to opera, and then to jazz. People kept offering me different projects, saying ' Well, I know that you have never done this before, so maybe you might not want to？' and I would say, ' Oh, sure. I' 11 try it. ' So I went from form. to form, to form. and that is how.
M: Are you going to keep moving around or are you stuck on jazz singing now？
W: I think jazz is where I' m going to stay. I feel the most comfortable here, I have the most freedom here.
M: When were the sessions for this album originally done？
W: The session was done in Sept. of 1998 we mixed it down the second week of October, and nothing was done with it. I was busy for five and half years in a life of death battle with a portion of the government' a legal battle' that I had. So I had to drop everything to deal with it.
M: Does anyone in your family have a musical background？
W: I was brought up in a family that had an awful lot of musicians, and none of them took anything I was doing very seriously at all. I was actually the family joke. I just did this music to get it out of my system. I did not expect anyone to pay much attention to it. I just knew that I had to say it.
M: Thanks for talking with us, best wishes for your career.
W: Thank you!
What hasn't Devorah Day involved in？
A．Madrigals.
B．Folk.
C．Rock.
D．Opera.
第3题
听力原文： Many expressions in English use colors. These expressions show how people feel about the colors. Different colors can describe different feelings of people. For example, people associate red with a strong feeling like anger. When someone is very angry, people say that he or she sees red. Red is an active color. A red-letter day is a lucky day. When criminals are caught in the middle of a crime, people say that they were caught red-handed. Green is the color of grass and leaves. When someone grows plants well, people say he has a green thumb. Blue is a sad, thoughtful color. When someone is very sad, she says she is blue. The blues is a kind of jazz that is usually very sad and slow.
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A．Blue.
B．Black.
C．Green.
D．Red.
第4题
Since then white singers like Bob Dylan have rediscovered【C8】______own folk tradition, instead of【C9】______from black roots. But the main【C10】______since 1960 have been social and technical. One is that young people have more【C11】______to spend on records at an earlier age than they used to, so Tin Pan Alley, the 'pop' music industry, aims at the teenage audience.【C12】______is that electronic equipment has developed to such an【C13】______that technicians are now capable of mixing sound to【C14】______recordings that are quite different from a live【C15】______.
But the real【C16】______with 'pop' musis is that Tin Pan Alley has always worked against its being a【C17】______music of the people. It takes everything original and natural out of it and【C18】______it with cheap commercial imitations.【C19】______the American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, said: "They've always【C20】______the second-rate songs. They've never wanted to play the good ones."
【C1】
A．definition
B．classification
C．imitation
D．discussion
第5题
Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi) , you may be misled into assuming that it is an aristocratic cultural form. Nothing could be further from the truth. It originated among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time when they occupied the very bottom of the American social heap.
So how has something that was created by a once downtrodden and despised minority acquired a central place in today's American culture？ Mr. Darrell A. Jenks, director of the American Center for Educational Exchange, and also a drummer in the jazz band Window, analyses the phenomenon for us here.
Perhaps the essence of America is that you could never get two Americans to agree on just what that might be. After thinking about it for a while, we might chuckle and say, "Hmm, seems like being American is a bit more complicated than we thought. " Certainly things like individualism, success (the "American Dream"), innovation and tolerance stand out. But these things come together because of our ability to work with one another and find common purpose no matter how diverse we might be.
Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, believe that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason, for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together. The solos are a celebration of individual brilliance that can't take place without the group efforts of the rhythm section. Beyond that, though, jazz has a connection to the essence of America in a much more fundamental way. It is an expression of the African roots of American culture, a musical medium that exemplifies the culture of the Africans whose culture came to dominate much of what is American.
That's right, in many respects America's roots are in Africa. Read Ralph Ellison's perceptive description of the transformation of separate African and European cultures at the hands of the slaves:
"…the dancing of those slaves who, looking through the windows of a plantation manor house from the yard, imitated the steps so gravely performed by the masters within and then added to them their own special flair, burlesquing the white folks and then going on to force the steps into a choreography uniquely their own. The whites, looking out at the activity in the yard, thought that they were being flattered by imitation and were amused by the incongruity of tattered blacks dancing courtly steps, while missing completely the fact that before their eyes a European cultural form. was becoming Americanized, undergoing a metamorphosis through the mocking activity of a people partially sprung from Africa. " (Ralph Ellison, Living with Music, pp 83-84).
Jazz brought together elements from Africa and Europe, fusing them into a new culture, an expression unique to the Americans.
Out of this fusion came an idea that we Americans believe central to our identity: tolerance. Both cultures represented in Ellison's passage eventually came to realize each other's value. Americans acknowledge that in diversity is our strength. We learn every day that other cultures and peoples may make valuable contributions to our way of life. Jazz music is the embodiment of this ideal, combining elements from African and European cultures into a distinctly American music.
Jazz reflects two contradictory facets of American life. On the one hand it is a team effort, where every musician is completely immersed in what the group does together, listening to each of the other players and building on their contributions to create a musical whole. On the other hand, the band features a soloist who is an individual at the extreme, a genius like Charlie Parker who explores musical territory where no one has ever gone before. In the same sense, American life is also a combination of teamwork and individualism, a combination of individual brilliance with the ability to work with others.
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A．aristocratic
B．bottom
C．misled
D．heap
第6题
A.exists
B.starts
C.correlates
第7题
听力原文： Researchers do not know why people think some colours are warm and other colours are cool. However, almost everyone agrees that red, orange, and yellow are warm and that green, blue, and violet are cool. Perhaps warm colours remind people of warm days and cool colours remind them of cool days. Because in the north the sun is low during the winter, the sunlight appears quite blue. Because the sun is higher during the summer, the hot summer sunlight appears yellow.
People associate colours with different holidays. For example, red is associated with Valentine's Day. On February 14th, Americans send red hearts to people they love. People associate orange with Halloween in October and Thanksgiving Day in November. On October 31 st, many Americans put large orange pumpkins in their windows for Halloween. Many people wear green on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. Violet is a dignified colour which is associated with Easter. On Easter Sunday, people decorate baskets with purple ribbons.
Many expressions in English use colours. These expressions show how people feel about the colours. For example, people associate red with a strong feeling like anger. When someone is very angry, people say that he or she sees red. Red is an active colour. A red-letter day is a lucky day. When criminals are caught in the middle of a crime, people say that they are caught red-handed. Green is the colour of grass and leaves. When someone grows plants well, people say he or she has green fingers. Blue is a sad, thoughtful colour. When someone is very sad, people say he or she is feeling blue. Blues is a kind of jazz that is usually very sad and slow.
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A．A warm colour is a colour that is often used in restaurants.
B．A warm colour is a colour that gives off heat.
C．A warm colour is a colour near the red end of the light spectrum.
D．A warm colour is a colour that makes people feel upset.
第8题
听力原文：W: First of all, I would like you to tell me a bit about what you've been doing.
M: Well, I left school after I'd done my A-levels. I really wanted to study art. But a friend of my father's offered me a job, to be an accountant in the city.
W: I see. In your application, you say that you only spent half a year with this accounting firm. Why was that？
M: To be honest, I didn't like it. So I entered the Art College a year ago.
W: What do you do in your spare time？
M: I like jazz and folk music. I go to the theater occasionally and act a bit myself. I also like reading and I've done a bit of photography. What's more, I've traveled a lot, especially in Europe.
W: Very interesting. I think that's all I want to ask about your background. I will inform. you as soon as we make the decision.
M: OK, thank you very much.
What are the two speakers doing？
A．They are having a chat.
B．One is interviewing the other.
C．They are talking about the weather.
第9题
The man learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.
A．over the radio
B．from one of his workmates
C．from the newspaper
D．from his friends
第10题
听力原文：M: First of all, I'd like you to tell me a bit about what you've been doing.
W: Well, I left school after I'd done my A-levels.
M: What subjects did you take？
W: French, German and art.
M: Art？
W: Well, I really wanted to study art. But a friend of my father's offered me a job—he's an accountant in the city
M: I see. In your application, you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants. Why was that？
W: Well, to be quite honest, I didn't like it — so I got a place at the Art College a years ago.
M: Did your father mind？
W: Well, he was rather disappointed at first. He's an accountant too, you know.
M: Have you any brothers or sisters？
W: Two brothers, both at school. One's eleven, and the other's fifteen.
M: Right. What do you in your spare time？
W: I like jazz and folk music; I go to the theater occasionally and act a bit myself. I read quite a lot, and I've done a bit of photography. Also, rye traveled a lot.
M: Very interesting. Miss Smith. I think that's all I wanted to ask about your background.
What are the two speakers doing？
A．They are having a friendly chat.
B．One is interviewing the other.
C．They are talking about each other's family.
D．One is asking about the other's family background.
