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Generally, the blues are often associated with unhappy things. For example, if you lose your iob, you might want to listen to the blues. Although the blues often deal with unhappy personal things, the music itself goes far beyond selfpity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of sadness, making you relaxed, and simply having tun.
The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly AfricanAmerican history. The blues began in Southern plantations (大农场) in the 19th century. Its inventors were slaves, exslaves and the children of slaves — AfricanAmerican sharecroppers (佃农) who sang as they worked in the cotton and vegetable fields.
The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still influence each other in many ways today. Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out quickly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and 1940s. When the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music developed into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazzblues hybrids. About ten years later, the blues gave birth to rhythms (节奏) ‘n’blues and rock ‘n’roll. No single person invented the blues, but many people said they had discovered different styles of the blues. For example, a bandleader, W．C.Handy insisted that the blues was first shown to him in 1903 by a street guitarist at a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
During the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of important bluesmen who helped to shape the music. Unfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their graves. But the music of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in the recordings of 1920s and 1930s from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states.
【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了布鲁斯音乐的起源和发展历史。
27．What can we know about the blues?
A．It can be very loud music.
B．It often tells sad personal stories.
C．It can bring sad feelings to people.
D．It is mainly about overcoming hard luck.
答案与解析：B 细节理解题。根据第一段的“Although the blues often deal with unhappy personal things...”可知，布鲁斯音乐常常讲述伤感的个人经历。
28．What's the relationship between the blues and jazz?
A．The blues gave birth to jazz.
B．They have influenced each other.
C．They usually have the same rhythm.
D．Jazz made the blues popular in the Mississippi Delta.
答案与解析：B 细节理解题。根据第三段的第二句可知，布鲁斯音乐和爵士乐互相影响。
29．What happened to the Delta blues after entering urban areas?
A．It became less popular then.
B．It developed into different styles.
C．It created many different rhythms.
D．It was replaced by other regional musical styles.
答案与解析：B 细节理解题。根据第三段的倒数第二句可知，当布鲁斯音乐传到城市之后，发展了很多不同的风格。
30．What is the passage mainly about?
A．The history of the blues.
B．The changes of the blues.
C．The pioneers of the blues.
D．The invention of the blues.
答案与解析：A 主旨大意题。根据文章内容可知，本文主要是关于布鲁斯音乐的起源和发展历史。
