A.alliteration
B.personification
C.metonymy
D.antithesis
A.Tin Pan Alley is the biggest source of popular music in America.
B.Tin Pan Alley’s dominance gradually faded away during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
C.Tin Pan Alley originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in New York City.
D.Remnants of Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s until earlier popular music genres were overtaken by rock and roll.
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
A.exists
B.starts
C.correlates
Directions :
Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B,
C, or D on, ANSWER SHEET 1.
It has always been a problem to decide whether "popular music" is music which represents the people or is simply music that the people like. The same problem of (26) exists with jazz. So many different (27) 0f music have been called jazz at one time or another that it is hard to say
what (28) it is. Jazz has always been considered to be black music (29) when I first (30)an interest in it twenty years ago, I used to hear white (31) playing music that was like Louis
Armstrong's in the 1920s. I found out afterwards that they learnt to do this by playing Armstrong's records over and over again until their style. was close enough to his (32) for them to
imitate him.
Since then white singers like Bob Dylan have rediscovered (33) 0wn folk tradition, instead of (34) from black roots. But the main (35) since 1960 have been social and technical. One is that young people have more (36) 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. (37) is that electronic equipment has developed to such an (38) that technicians are now capable of mixing sound to (39) recordings that are quite different from alive (40) .
But the real (41) with 'pop' music is that Tin Pan Alley has always worked against its be-ing a (42) music of the people. It takes everything original and natural out of it and (43) it with cheap commercial imitations. (44) the American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, said:"They've always (45) the second-rate songs. They've never wanted to play the good ones. "
26.
[ A] definition
[ B] classification
[ C] imitation
[ D] discussion
我们将不带边的烤盘,用英文表示为()。
A、baking pan
B、baking sheet
C、pan
D、tin
根据下列材料请回答 56~60 题:
A
There are many shops in Singapore where customers still bargain, although prices are clearly shown on the goods. There is nothing out of the ordinary in haggling; some shopkeepers expect you to and will be surprised if you accepted their prices immediately. We know that the prices in some stores are a bit higher than those in Change Alley, but we also realize that to keep a store like Robinson’s is by no means cheap. Besides, in such places we shop in air-conditioned(空调)comfort. For all these, we pay a little extra.
It is not always true to say that things in Change Alley cost less. I once bought a Czechoslovakian glass butter-dish from Robinson’s for a little under two dollars. I then went on to Change Alley and just by chance saw an article of the same shape, design and size, in one of the shops. I then asked about its price, and was surprised when the man demanded more than four dollars for it. “How much can you offer?” he shouted at me. I offered him exactly the same price I paid for the article and his reply was shockingly rude(粗鲁). I opened my bag, showed him my receipt, stared at him and walked out of his shop.
A buyer in England expects to find the price of goods clearly shown, or, to be told exactly what the price is. He knows this is the lowest price that will be accepted. If he thinks the price is beyond what he can afford, he shrugs(耸耸)his shoulders and walks away. He does not attempt to bargain with the shopkeeper. Even if he showed annoyance or surprise, he would expect to be told that if the price was unacceptable, he should try elsewhere.
第 56 题 The underlined word“hagglin9”(1ine 2,para.1)in the text most probably means___.
A.accepting the prices immediately
B.fixing the right cost for some goods
C.arguing about the price of something
D.paying extra for comfortable shopping
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