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一. Grammar and Vocabulary2019-2020年高三上学期周测（十）英语试题-语法填空 含答案Music es in many forms, most countries have a style of their own. At the turn of the century(25)_jazz was born, America had no distinguished style of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom . But it began to be heard in the early 1900s. Jazz is Amercas contribution to popular music. In contrast (26)_classical music, which follows formal European traditions, jazz is instinctive and free-form. It (27)_(bubble) with energy, expressing the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz sounded like America, as it does today. The origins of this music are as interesting as the music itself. America negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz pioneers. They were brought to southern states as slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long hours. When a Negro died, his friends and relatives formed a procession (28)_(carry) the dead body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often acpanied the march. On the way to cemetery the band played slow music suited to the occasion. But on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death _(29)(remove) one of their rpelations, but the living were glad to be alive. They band played happy music, improvising(即兴发挥) on both the harmony and melody of the tunes(30)_(present) at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz. Music has always been important in the lives of the black. ing mainly from West Africa, the black men who wer brought to America already possessed a ricj musical tradition. This music centred on religious ceremonies(31)_dancing, singing, clapping and stamping to the beat of a drum were important forms of musical expression. As these people settled in to their fields, they mand up work songs. Singing made the hard workk go faster. Another musical form that helped to develop jazz was the blues. Bules songs always describes something sad-(32)_unhappylove affair, a money problem, bad luck. To this day, the exression”feeling blue”means being sad.答案 when / with/bubbles/ to carry/ had removed/presented/where/ anBMy life in MaybMayb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when i first knew it.people moved slowly then. They wanderd across the square, walked leisurely in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty four hours long but seemed(33)_(long). There was no hurry, (34)_there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Mayb country. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people mayb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. We lived on the main residential street in town-Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and i found our father satisfactory he played with us, read to us, and treated us with friendly distance.Calpurnia was somthing else again. She was all angles and bones she was nearsighted her hands were wide as a thin narrow flat piece of wood and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me (35) i couldnt behave as well jem when she knew he was older, and (36)_(call) me home when i wasnt ready to e. Our battles were heroic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side. She (37)_(be) with us ever since Jem was born, and i had felt her tyrannical(暴君般的)presence as long as I could remember. Our mother died when i was two, so i never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state law-making body. He was middle-aged then, and she was fifteen years(38)_junior. Jem was the product of their first year of marriage, four years later i was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack. They said it ran in her family. I did not miss her, (39)_i think Jem did. He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by him self behind the car-house. When he was like that, i knew better than (40)_(bother) him.答案 longer/because/why/calling/ had been/ his /but / bothering
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