单选题

56、Passage Three
The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was still not easy. They had to find new work. In the South, work camps were formed. Black people from these camps worked on farms and on building up the Mississippi River banks. During the week the people worked long and hard. They often lived alone, without their families, far from home. On the weekends, the workers got together at picnics or drinking places. Travelling black musicians with guitars entertained them. The musicians sang songs about the difficult life of the workers. These songs were called the blues.
If you have the blues it means you feel very sad. You can have the blues because you have no money, no job, no lover, or no home. But blue songs were not always sad. Some of them were happy and many of them were funny.
Sometimes the blues singers had song contests. Each singer sang new words or a new style of the blues song. They made up the music as they played. In this way they created new music. This is called improvisation. Later, improvisation became a very important part of jazz music.
Blues began in the country in the South. As blacks moved into the big cities to work, the blues went with them. There, they sang about life in the cities. W. C. Handy, a black band leader from Memphis made the blues popular all over America. In 1914 he wrote the most famous blues song of all, “The St. Louis Blues”.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A
The blues were born in the country in the South.
B
The blues soon disappeared in big cities.
C
W. C. Handy is the first blues singer in US.
D
The most well-known blues song is “The St. Louis Blues”.
参考答案  
B
题目详解：
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c选项的说法很奇怪
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如果你有忧郁症，那意味着你感到非常悲伤。你可能会有忧郁，因为你没有钱，没有工作，没有爱人，或者没有家。但是忧郁的歌并不总是悲伤的。他们中的一些人很开心，许多人很有趣。 有时蓝调歌手举行歌曲比赛。每个歌手都唱了新的歌词或一种新风格的蓝调歌曲。他们边演奏边编音乐。就这样他们创造了新的音乐。这就是所谓的即兴创作。后来，即兴演奏成了爵士乐中非常重要的一部分。 蓝调音乐始于南方的乡村。随着黑人进入大城市工作，蓝调也随之而来。在那里，他们唱着关于城市生活的歌。W.孟斐斯的黑人乐队领袖汉迪使蓝调风靡全美。1914年，他创作了最著名的蓝调歌曲《圣路易斯蓝调》。
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蓝调音乐诞生于20世纪初的密西西比河Delta。南北战争后，奴隶们获得了自由，但生活仍然不容易。他们必须找到新的工作。在南方，形成了工作营。来自这些营地的黑人在农场工作，并在密西西比河的河岸上建造。在这一周里，人们长时间地辛勤工作。他们经常独自生活，没有家人，远离家乡。周末，工人们聚在野餐或喝酒的地方。拿着吉他旅行的黑人音乐家为他们提供了娱乐。音乐家们唱着关于工人艰难生活的歌曲。这些歌曲被称为蓝调。