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ogether at piics or drinking places. Travelling black musicians with guitars entertained them. The musicians sang songs about the difficult life of the workers. These songs were called the blues. If you have the blues, it means you feel very sad. But blues songs were not always sad. Some of them were happy and many of them were funny. Early blues singers often had very interesting names like Blind Lemon, Jefferson and Howlin Wolf. Sometimes, the blues singers had song contests. Each singer sang new words or a new style of the blues song. They made up the music as they played. In this way they created new music. That is called improvisation (即興表演 ). Later,improvisation became a very important part of jazz music. Blues began in the country in the South. As black people moved into the big cities to work, the blues went with them. There, they sang about life in the cities. W. C. Handy, a black band leader from Memphis made the blues popular all over America. In 1914 he wrote the most famous blues song of all— The St. Louis Blues. 5. This passage is mainly concerned with ________. A. the birth of American country music B. the birth of jazz music C. the birth of American popular music D. the birth of the blues 答案與解析: D 主旨大意題。s hometown 答案與解析: C 推理判斷題。根據(jù)該段中 “... where thousands of African -Americans had moved to work in the car industry.” 可知 B項(xiàng)正確。根據(jù)第二段中 “In the end an artist from a record pany may e to a show. If he or she likes you, there may be a deal.” 可知 C項(xiàng)正確。依據(jù)第一、二段中 “First ...” “ The next step ...”可看出組成一個(gè)樂隊(duì)非常簡(jiǎn)單。t e together on their own. They are created by managers and record panies. Their image is strictly controlled. Professional song writers usually write their music. This is a convenient arrangement and the public seems to love the result. Though boy and girl bands have bee very popular recently, there is a