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.