AFTER SEEING THE MOVIE “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, .A. MANY PEOPLE WANT...

35. After seeing the movie “Pride and Prejudice”, .

A. many people wanted to read the book

B. the reading of the book interested many people

C. the book was read by many people

D. the book made many people want to read it

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer to each of the questions that follow.

Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, and

“America’s great contribution to music”. It has functioned as popular art and

enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in the “jazz age” of the

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1920s, in the “swing era” of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of

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modern jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it

originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up

the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and finally to Chicago. It

welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and the

Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back

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to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden,

a New Orleans barber and cornet player, is generally considered to have been

the first real Jazz musician, around 1891.

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What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of

music was the use of improvisation. Jazz displayed a break from traditional

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music where composers wrote an entire piece of music on paper, leaving the

musicians to break their backs playing exactly what was written on the

score. In a Jazz piece, however, the song is simply a starting point, or sort of

skeletal guide for the Jazz musicians to improvise around. Actually, many of

the early Jazz musicians were bad sight readers and some couldn’t even read

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music at all. Generally speaking, these early musicians couldn’t make very

much money and were stuck working menial jobs to make a living. The

second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians included such memorable

players as Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton. These men formed

small bands and took the music of earlier musicians, improved its

complexity, and gained greater success. This music is known as “hot Jazz”

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due to the enormously fast speeds and rhythmic drive.

A young cornet player by the name of Louis Armstrong was

discovered by Joe Oliver in New Orleans. He soon grew up to become one of

the greatest and most successful musicians of all time, and later one of the

biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other talented early

Jazz musicians changed the way we look at music.