Câu hỏi: 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.
American jazz is a mixture of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as American and African folk music, European classical music, and Christian gospel songs. One of the recognizable characteristics of jazz is its use of improvisation: certain parts of the music are written out and played the same way by various performers, and other improvised parts are created spontaneously during a performance and vary widely from performer to performer.
The earliest form of jazz was ragtime, lively songs or rags performed on the piano, and the best-known of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin. Bom in 1868 to former slaves, Scott Joplin earned his living from a very early age playing the piano in bars along the Mississippi. One of his regular jobs was in the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri. It was there that he began writing the more than 500 compositions that he was to produce, the most famous of which was "The Maple Leaf Rag."
According to the passage, ragtime was _______.
A. performed only at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia
B. generally performed on a variety of instruments
C. the first type of jazz
D. extremely soothing and sedate
American jazz is a mixture of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as American and African folk music, European classical music, and Christian gospel songs. One of the recognizable characteristics of jazz is its use of improvisation: certain parts of the music are written out and played the same way by various performers, and other improvised parts are created spontaneously during a performance and vary widely from performer to performer.
The earliest form of jazz was ragtime, lively songs or rags performed on the piano, and the best-known of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin. Bom in 1868 to former slaves, Scott Joplin earned his living from a very early age playing the piano in bars along the Mississippi. One of his regular jobs was in the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri. It was there that he began writing the more than 500 compositions that he was to produce, the most famous of which was "The Maple Leaf Rag."
According to the passage, ragtime was _______.
A. performed only at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia
B. generally performed on a variety of instruments
C. the first type of jazz
D. extremely soothing and sedate
Theo đoạn văn, ragtime______.
A. chỉ được biểu diễn ở Câu lạc bộ Maple Leaf ở Sedalia
B. thường được biểu diễn trên nhiều loại nhạc cụ
C. loại nhạc jazz đầu tiên
D. rất nhẹ nhưng và bình thản
The earliest form of jazz was ragtime, lively songs or rags performed on the piano, and the best-known of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin.
(Hình thức đầu tiên của nhạc jazz là ragtime, những bài hát sỏi động hoặc những bản rag được biểu diễn trên piano, và nghệ sĩ biểu diễn và nhà soạn nhạc ragtime nổi tiếng nhất là Scott Joplin.)
A. chỉ được biểu diễn ở Câu lạc bộ Maple Leaf ở Sedalia
B. thường được biểu diễn trên nhiều loại nhạc cụ
C. loại nhạc jazz đầu tiên
D. rất nhẹ nhưng và bình thản
The earliest form of jazz was ragtime, lively songs or rags performed on the piano, and the best-known of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin.
(Hình thức đầu tiên của nhạc jazz là ragtime, những bài hát sỏi động hoặc những bản rag được biểu diễn trên piano, và nghệ sĩ biểu diễn và nhà soạn nhạc ragtime nổi tiếng nhất là Scott Joplin.)
Đáp án C.