首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Jazz is the art of surprise, producing always the sudden and unexpected. But the blues is something else. Jazz has been develope
Jazz is the art of surprise, producing always the sudden and unexpected. But the blues is something else. Jazz has been develope
admin
2011-01-05
29
问题
Jazz is the art of surprise, producing always the sudden and unexpected. But the blues is something else. Jazz has been developed into one of those intellectual art forms that scares people away. The blues can be faked. It is faked more today than ever before. But it is an emotional song and even the finest of blues singers cannot always possess true emotions, the real grief which is at the heart, in the soul.
Of course, I had heard the blues all my life. I had heard it all as a teenage jazz fan in America, traveling long distances to sit, perfectly still, listening with religious reverence to the great progressive jazzmen of the day. But I was never moved by the blues until I was a young soldier, marching along one long, desperately hot afternoon under a south Texas sun. We were marching four abreast, rifles slung, singing as we swung along.
An officer marched at the head of us. He did not sing. God knows how we hated them, the officers. We all hated them. The officer was only there for show. Like a fancy motor car radiator cap. Suddenly on our left there appeared this ghostly vision. All in white. Pure white. It was men. A prison work-gang. All black men dressed in white. They sang as they worked. They were not in chains, but men on horseback watched over them.
The prison gang were singing some work-song. We all, all of us felt it; knew the feeling of the song for we were prisoners too and knew something at least of the longing that went into that song.
Without ever stopping their work the black convict gang saw us. The scene, the beauty of their singing, of these black men who were the grandsons of kidnapped African men and women, the descendants of slaves, burned our eyes. The blues, sung like this, in the condition of penal servitude which was its true roots, and set against this dusty lonesome Southern backdrop, was the real thing. All the concerts, jazz sessions and recordings I had listened to again and again--none of them was like this.
The soldier enjoyed the prisoners’ song because ______.
选项
A、they identify themselves with its singers
B、its words were clearly enunciated
C、it was sung in their native language
D、they recognized its tune
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/VBLMFFFM
本试题收录于:
C类竞赛(非英语专业本科)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
C类竞赛(非英语专业本科)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Youaredoingaminiresearchprojectoninternationalmigration.Thefollowingaresomeusefulmaterials.Writeareportofabo
(1)Theconceptofpeaceisaveryimportantoneinculturesallovertheworld.Thinkabouthowwegreetpeople.Insomelangua
(1)StephenBrownhas"alwaysbeenfascinatedwiththeideaofaworld’sfair."MarySchnackisabusinesswomanhopingtomakec
(1)You’rebusyfillingouttheapplicationformforapositionyoureallyneed;let’sassumeyouonceactuallycompletedacoup
Hello,everybody.Thankyouverymuchforinvitingmehere.It’sverypleasanttohaveachancetotalktoyouaboutsomethingt
Hello,everybody.Thankyouverymuchforinvitingmehere.It’sverypleasanttohaveachancetotalktoyouaboutsomethingt
Her________totheexecutivemanagerisanacknowledgmentofherhardworkandunusualtalent.
(1)Thebenefitsofexercisearewidelyknown:ithelpsyoulivelongerandlowerstheriskofheartdisease,strokeanddiabete
SomeAdvicetoCollegeGraduatesⅠ.AdviceonyourdreamsDon’tworryaboutmakingyourdreams【T1】________1)whatc
WhatMakesSoundBeautiful?(69)Beautyiscertainlymorethanskin-deep.Howeveryoumightdefineit,beautyextendsfarbe
随机试题
应用成本法评估资产必须具备的前提条件不包括【】
下面关于TCP/IP的说法中()是不正确的。
神经病毒侵害1~2个脊髓段,出现腓总神经麻痹后遗症时,临床上可见的畸形是
尸斑出现在死亡后()。
建筑业企业申请资质升级、资质增项。在申请之日起的前一年内出现下列情形,资质许可机关对其申请不予批准的有()。
下列关于住房公积金缴存的说法,正确的是()。
监事会制度是根据权力制衡原则由()选举监事组成公司专门监督机关对公司经营进行监督的制度。
药物过敏反应属于人体免疫功能的一种特殊表现形式。在多数情况下,免疫功能表现为肌体有利的防御功能,称为常态免疫反应。但在少数情况下,也可表现为对肌体有害的变态反应,即过敏反应。正常情况下,人体的细胞卫士能够辨认入侵病菌而将其杀死,保障肌体健康。但有时人体的防
有一数列Xk=4×k-3,k分别为7,8,9,4,5,6,10,11,12,问这些数的median等于多少?
A、Becausetheyareeasytofeedandtrain.B、Becausetheyareverybigandpowerful.C、Becausetheycanprotectfamilyfrombein
最新回复
(
0
)