History, as we know, is filled with facts, with places, names, dates, and events.
History is also filled with feelings, with pain, joy, excitement, and fear.
Facts are set down in books, but what happens to feelings? How can you take the pain, for example, and write it into a history book? You can’t. But you can put it to music. Take the blues for example.
The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue. The early blues was the beginning of other musical styles, from jazz to rock and roll.
Music, you might say, is a record of feelings.
Of course, facts are important: the civil rights movement, the race for space, the Vietnam War. But the feelings behind these events – the pride of being black, the excitement of a rocket blast (點(diǎn)火起飛), the pain of a war – are also an important part of history.
小題1:In the passage, the word “blue” and the word “blues” are related to __________.
A．a(chǎn) feeling and a kind of musicB．a(chǎn) color
C．a(chǎn) kind of music and a personD．people and their feelings
小題2:According to the writer’s idea, what can make people feel blue?
A．A history bookB．Music.
C．History.D．Hard times.
小題3:Besides the above, the writer also explains ___________.
A．what caused the Vietnam War
B．the feelings behind some important events
C．the relation between history and music
D．why he wrote the article

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析：這篇短文主要向我們講述了什么是歷史，及人民在一些歷史事件后的感受。
小題1:根據(jù)The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue.描述，可知blue與人的感情有關(guān)，blues與音樂有關(guān)，故選A。
小題2:根據(jù)The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue.描述，可知艱難的時(shí)刻，使人們悶悶不樂。故選D。
小題3:通過短文最后一段可知，作者也解釋了一些重大事件后的感受。故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文中長句較多，一時(shí)很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強(qiáng)求非得理解一詞一句的含義，能把握文章大意就行。然后帶著問題閱讀短文，一般就能順利找出答題依據(jù)。對(duì)于不能直接找到根據(jù)的問題注意聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)短文中心總結(jié)出正確答案。
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