[填空题]A The blues is an emotional song
B The officer was good for nothing
C "the prisoners’ songs differed from those on tapes, sung at concerts and jazz sessions"
D They identified themselves with its singers
E Could come close to the poor and the weak
F It was sung in their native language
The writer compares an officer to a car radiator cap to show that ______.

[填空题]A The blues is an emotional song
B The officer was good for nothing
C "the prisoners’ songs differed from those on tapes, sung at concerts and jazz sessions"
D They identified themselves with its singers
E Could come close to the poor and the weak
F It was sung in their native language
Being an infantry soldier, the writer ______.

[填空题]A The blues is an emotional song
B The officer was good for nothing
C "the prisoners’ songs differed from those on tapes, sung at concerts and jazz sessions"
D They identified themselves with its singers
E Could come close to the poor and the weak
F It was sung in their native language

The writer compares an officer to a car radiator cap to show that ______.

[填空题]
1 Jazz is the art of surprise, producing always the sudden and unexpected. But the blues is something else. Jazz has been developed into one of those intellectual art forms that scares people away. The blues can be faked. It is faked more today than even before. But it is an emotional song and even the finest of blues singers cannot always possess true emotions, the real grief which is at the heart, in the soul.
2 Of course, I had heard the blues all my life. I had heard it all as a teenage jazz fan in America, travelling long distances to sit, perfectly still, listening with religious reverence to the great progressive jazzmen of the day. But I was never moved by the blues until I was a young soldier, marching along one long, desperately hot afternoon under a south Texas sun. We were marching four abreast, rifles slung, singing as we swung along.
3 An officer marched at the head o

[填空题]
1 Jazz is the art of surprise, producing always the sudden and unexpected. But the blues is something else. Jazz has been developed into one of those intellectual art forms that scares people away. The blues can be faked. It is faked more today than even before. But it is an emotional song and even the finest of blues singers cannot always possess true emotions, the real grief which is at the heart, in the soul.
2 Of course, I had heard the blues all my life. I had heard it all as a teenage jazz fan in America, travelling long distances to sit, perfectly still, listening with religious reverence to the great progressive jazzmen of the day. But I was never moved by the blues until I was a young soldier, marching along one long, desperately hot afternoon under a south Texas sun. We were marching four abreast, rifles slung, singing as we swung along.
3 An officer marched at the head of us.

[单项选择]A. Not many people know the song.
B. He doesn’t know the song well enough to play it.
C. He hasn’t been playing the piano long.
D. People often ask him to play the song.

[单项选择]
In the college admissions wars. we parents are the true gladiators. We’re pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT prep courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. We say our motives are selfless and sensible. A degree from Stanford or Princeton is the ticket for life. If Aaron and Nicole don’t get in, they’re forever doomed. Gosh, we’re delusional.
I’ve twice been to the wars. and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It’s oneupmanship among parents. We see our kids’ college pedigrees as trophies attesting to how well--or how poorly--we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge mat our obsession is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
Admissions anxiety afflicts only a minority of par
A. Selective schools offer better instructional approaches to their students.
B. There are more essay exams in selective schools than other schools.
C. Their new teaching methods secure their graduates’ high salaries.
D. They don’t outperform other schools in terms of professors’ feedback.