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人教版(2019)高二英语上学期期末考点大串讲
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专题07 七选五15篇
(2022·重庆长寿·高二期末)No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom. ____1____ Jazz was a new kind of music, for America and the world, and New Orleans was its birthplace.
Who were the jazz pioneers? Most were blacks. This music was not written down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musicians to learn the new style. But soon they, too.
The popularity (流行) of this music spread (传播). From New Orleans, it traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. By the 1920s, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white. Many of them were famous. ____2____ His name was Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong was a born (天生的) musician. He was not only talented (有才能的) but also hard-working. ____3____ These personal qualities were valuable (有价值的) in his rise (上升) to fame (名声). After he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play. But life was not alw