题型：单词拼写（语篇） 题类： 难易度：困难
浙江省杭州市拱墅区2023-2024学年九年级上学期1月期末英语试题
No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom. But it is (据说) that it began in the early 1900s.
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 (写) down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musicians to learn the new style. But soon they, too, were (弹奏) jazz.
The popularity of this music (传播). From New Orleans, it traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. (在……以前) the time of the rise of America, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white. Many of them were famous. One man was (好) than the rest. His name was Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong was a born musician. He was not only talented but also hard- working. He also had a good sense of (幽默) and a big, good- nature d smile. These personal qualities were (有价值的) in his rise to fame. After he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play.
But life was not always easy, especially at the beginning. Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 in New Orleans. His father (从不) went to school and his mother could hardly read. When Louis was still a kid, his parents separated, and Louis lived with his mother. How hard their life was can be imagined. And yet Louis smiled through everything. He later wrote, " My whole life has been happiness. Life was there for me and I accepted it. (无论什么) happened has been beautiful to me. I love everybody. "
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