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Unit 6. Newspapers and Television: The World of Mass Media. Get Ready For Your State Final Assessment. Unit Two. Education: The World of Learning - номер 3, страница 269.

Условие.

3 Read the text and decide if the facts after it are true (T), false (F) or not stated (NS).

Music from America

All over the world people listen to American songs of black American slaves. Black slaves in the South sang work songs and religious songs. They were like a conversation in music — one person sang, and then another answered. When the slaves got their freedom after the Civil War they began to tell their own stories in music called the “blues”. The singer sang and the guitar answered. The word “blue” can mean sad, and the songs told sad stories of hard work and danger.

At the beginning of the twentieth century black people moved from the South to the North to find work. They took their music with them to cities like Chicago and Detroit and there black musicians were the first to use electric guitars. Records of the blues became very popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1950s Elvis Presley was the first white singer to sing music that came from the blues.

Jazz was born in the city of New Orleans, on the Mississippi River in the far south of the USA. It also probably began with the songs and dancing of black slaves in the 1830s. The musician Jelly Roll Morton said he was the first to play “jazz” in 1897, but nobody really knows when it began. Black musicians like Louis Armstrong became famous in the 1920s in Chicago, and jazz music became popular across the world.

Now names of great jazz musicians are known all over the world, and people write, sing, and play jazz in many countries. But New Orleans, where it all began, is not the exciting place that it once used to be. The city was like a wonderful party in the streets, with colorful clothes, music, and dancing. But in 2005 Hurricane Katrina covered its streets and houses with water. Several thousand people died, and the city was badly damaged. Will New Orleans live again one day as the home of music? The musicians hope so.

Another popular kind of American music is “country”, which has its home in Nashville, Tennessee. It started from the music of the Scottish, Irish, and English people who came to live in the Appalachian Mountains. Country music began to be really popular in the 1920s. Music is still recorded in Nashville.

In the 1990s a new kind of music called “rap” became popular in New York. It came from black and Puerto Rican people and told of a dangerous life on the streets, where there was fighting and killing. Rappers don’t sing but they talk very fast over music. Some famous rappers are Eminem, Jay-Z and Missy Elliott.

1. These days American music is well-known.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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2. American music began during the Civil War.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

3. At the end of the twentieth century only black people sang the music called ‘blues’.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

4. Jazz appeared in the 19th century.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

5. The birthplace city of jazz has changed recently.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

6. Blues and jazz are not the only popular kinds of American music.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

7. Country music is rooted in Great Britain.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

8. Puerto Rican people are the most famous rappers in the world.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

Answer:

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте текст и решите, являются ли приведенные после него факты правдой (T), ложью (F) или об этом не сказано (NS).

Ответ:

1. True (Правда)

2. False (Ложь)

3. False (Ложь)

4. True (Правда)

5. False (Ложь)

6. True (Правда)

7. True (Правда)

8. Not stated (Не сказано)