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The Guitar

The Museum of Fine Arts in the eastern city of Boston recently began showing a collection of guitars. The exhibit is called Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar. It shows how the instrument developed during the past four centuries.
Probably no other musical instrument is as popular around the world as the guitar. Musicians use the guitar for almost every kind of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.
Music experts do not agree about where the guitar first was played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than a thousand years ago.
Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modem guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the seventeen-hundred it became similar to the instrument we know today.
Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violinist Niccolo Paganinni played and wrote music for the guitar in the early eighteen hundred. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works.
One guitar in the Boston Fine Arts display was played by Les Paul. It is a very old electric guitar. Mister Parl began experimenting with ways to make an electric guitar in the nineteen-thirties. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Parl Guitar in 1952.
The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. The guitar has always been important to blues music. The electric guitar Mister Paul helped develop made modem blues music possible. There have been many great blues guitarists. Yet, music experts say all blues guitar players are measured against one man and his famous guitar.
That man is B-B King. Every blues fan knows that years ago B-B King named his guitar Lucille. Lucille is so important to American music that the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D-C has asked for it. They want to display the large, beautiful black guitar in one of the museums because it is a part of American culture.

单选题 The guitar exhibit is called Dangerous Curve, because it displays all kinds of damages guitar has done to people.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由第1段可知,它是吉他艺术,它展示出此种乐器在过去一个世纪的发展过程。因此选B。
单选题 Guitar is more popular than any other musical instrument in the world.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题说的是吉他比世上任何乐器都更加受欢迎。第2段第1句和第2句说的正是这个意思。
单选题 Music experts all agree that guitar was first played in Egypt more than a thousand years ago.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 音乐专家普遍认为吉他最早是在一千多年前在埃及开始演奏的。第3段句首提到音乐专家对于吉他最早在哪里演奏的意见不一致。
单选题 According to some experts, Spain is one of the oldest countries where guitar was first played.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据一些专家的意见,西班牙是吉他最早的演奏国家之一。由第4段可以找到答案。
单选题 The electric guitar is quite different from the traditional guitar in every aspect.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题说的是电吉他和传统吉他在各个方面都不同。由第7段可知这种电吉他有同样的外形,6根弦。
单选题 It was the electric guitar that made modem blues music possible to exist.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题说的是,电吉他使现代布鲁斯音乐成为可能。由第7段可知电吉他对布鲁斯音乐很重要,现代布鲁斯音乐成为可能要得益于电吉他先生Paul的帮助。
单选题 John Denvor is one of the specialists in playing the guitar.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题说的是约翰丹佛,吉他演奏专家之一。文章提到了B-B King,但没有提及约翰丹佛,尽管我们知道他确实是吉他演奏专家。