C．Rock and roll D．Pop music.

　　2．Who recorded the song"Shake，Rattle and Roll"？

　　A．Louis Armstrong. B．Big Joe Turner.

　　C．Sam Philips. D．The Beatles.

　　3．Which is the right order of the music mentioned in the text?

　　A．jazz→rock and roll→the blues→pop music

　　B．jazz→the blues→rock and roll→pop music

　　C．jazz→pop music→the blues→rock and roll

　　D．the blues→jazz→rock and roll→pop music

　　4．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A．After Big Joe Turner released the first rock and roll song，he became very famous in America.

　　B．Elvis Presley had sixteen number one songs.

　　C．The Beatles existed for more than 20 years.

　　D．Sam Philips made Elvis Presley famous in order to make money.

　　【答案】　1.B　2.B　3.D　4.D

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　　Today I will take a brief look 1. how Western pop music progressed from the blues.During the late part of the 19th century，black 2. (musician) used the folk songs of black Americans 3. (create) a kind of music called the blues.Later on，there sprung up a faster，livelier kind of music 4. was called jazz.

　　From the early 1930s to the early 1950s，5. (tradition) jazz went into a gradual decline，and was replaced by a new musical trend 6. (know) as rhythm and blues，or R&B.During 7. early 1950s，one particular style of R&B became popular－rock and roll.The British pop group known as the Beatles 8.

(be) the supreme rock and roll band of the 1960s.The Beatles brought Western pop music to audiences around the world.Even 9. the Beatles broke up in 1970，no group since has ever come close to being as popular or 10.