SECTION A In this section you will hear a
mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY While listening, take notes on
the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to
complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the
blank sheet for note-taking. Now listen to the
mini-lecture. American Jazz Musician Louis
Armstrong Armstrong was born in New Orleans. He was so
poor during his childhood that sometimes (1) garbage cans for
supper. Ⅰ. The spirit of Armstrong’s world not
(2) by: 1) the (3)
of poverty and 2) the dangers of wild
living. Ⅱ. Armstrong’s life before
1920s: 1) Armstrong’s dancing for pennies and
(4) for his supper with a strolling quartet of other
kids. 2) Having his dreams like other American boys, regardless
of his point of social (5) . 3) The places he
played and the people he knew were sweet and (6) at one end
of the spectrum and rough at the other. 4) Experiences, pomp,
humor, erotic charisma, grief, majesty, the profoundly gruesome and monumentally
spiritual came into his (7) . Ⅲ.
Armstrong’s life from 1920 on: 1) Armstrong would be angry
if somebody intended to challenge him. 2) Musicians were used to
have "cutting sessions": battles of (8) and
stamina. 3) The melodic and rhythmic vistas Armstrong
(9) solved the mind-body problem. Louise
Armstrong was so great that the big bands sounded like him, their featured
improvisers took direction from him, and every school of jazz since has had to
address how he (10) the basics of the idiom-swing, blues,
ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms.