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[单项选择]Blues
Starting my own section of blues recommendations fills me with a creeping sense of guilt and complicity. Why Because I’m a white guy writing about an almost completely black genre-black, at least in its origins and in the artists that brought the blues to its zenith in the 50’s and 60’s Unlike, say jazz or soul , white performers played little or no positive role in the development of the blues. What positive effect whites had been far outweighed by the commercial exploitation and social exclusion blues pioneers met at every crossroads.
Further, there have been absolutely no significant white blues performers. A few are only imitators. Most can’t even properly be called blues musician: they played rock , folk , or pop music influenced by the blues , and much of it was unabashedly horrible , Mostly, though , writing about the blues makes me feel complicit in the unseemly, modern "blues revival" , a movement almost completely white and unoriginal , a popular uprising of m
A. the whites
B. the blacks
C. the Europeans
D. the African people
[单项选择]"My own feelings went from disbelief to excitement to downright fear," says Carl Hergenrother, 23, an Arizona undergraduate who verified a large asteroid barreling toward Earth with a 230em telescope atop nearby Kitt Peak. "It was scary, because there was the possibility that we were confirming the demise of some city somewhere, or some state or small country."
Well, not quite. Early last week, his celestial interloper whizzed by Earth, missing the planet by 450620 km--a hairbreadth in astronomical terms. Perhaps half a kilometer across, it was the largest object ever observed to pass that close to Earth.
Duncan Steel, an Australian astronomer, has calculated that if the asteroid had struck Earth, it would have hit at some 93450 km/h. The resulting explosion, scientists estimate, would have been in the 3000-to-12000-megaton range. That, says astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer asteroid and comet hunter, "is like taking all of the U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons, put
A. appreciation.
B. disbelief.
C. excitement.
D. ridicule.
