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  3. The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was sti

The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was sti

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问题     The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was still not easy. They had to find new work. In the South, work camps were formed. Black people from these camps worked on farms and on building up the Mississippi River banks. During the week the people worked long and hard. They often lived alone, without their families, far from home. On the weekends, the workers got together at picnics or drinking places. Traveling black musicians with guitars entertained them. The musicians sang songs about the difficult life of the workers. These songs were called the blues.
    If you have the blues it means you feel very sad. You can have the blues because you have no money, no job, no lover, or no home. But blue songs were not always sad. Some of them were happy and many of them were funny.
    Sometimes the blues singers had song contests. Each singer sang new words or a new style of the blues song. They made up the music as they played. In this way they created new music. This is called improvisation. Later, improvisation became a very important part of jazz music.
    Blues began in the country in the South. As blacks moved into the big cities to work, the blues went with them. There, they sang about life in the cities. W. C. Handy, a black band leader from Memphis made the blues popular all over America. In 1914 he wrote the most famous blues song of all, "The St. Louis Blues".  
At the very beginning, the blues were______.
选项 A、not performed on formal occasions
B、traditional songs of the Black people
C、about the life of traveling musicians
D、very popular throughout the nation
答案A
解析 逻辑推断题。布鲁斯是流动的黑人歌手为犒劳苦累的黑人兄弟自导自演的节目，多出现在聚会或工余之时，而不是在正规场合，所以A正确；布鲁斯是为了反映黑人当时的生存处境应运而生的，因此谈不上传统节目(也就是说不是黑人祖先从非洲大陆带过来的)，B错误；布鲁斯也不是反映歌唱者自己生活的，文中第一段倒数第二句说，音乐家演唱的是有关工人的困苦生活，因此C错误；布鲁斯一开始也仅是在南方，之后随着黑人劳动地点的扩张而在大范围扩散开来，所以D错误。
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