Conversation One
M: Excuse me. Where’s your rock music section?
W: Rock music? I’m sorry, we’re a, jazz store. We don’t have any rock and roll.
M: Oh, you only have jazz music? Nothing else?
W: That’s right. [1] We’re the only record store in London dedicated exclusively to jazz. Actually, we’re more than just a record store. We have a cafe and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall, where you can buy tickets to all the major jazz concerts in the city. Also, we have our own studio next door, where we produce albums for up-and-coming artists. We’re committed to fostering new music talent.
M: Wow! That’s so cool! [2] I guess there’s not much of a jazz scene anymore. Not like they used to be, but here you’re trying to promote this great music genre.
W: Yes, indeed, nowadays most people like to listen to pop and rock music. Hip hop music from America is also getting more and more popular. So as a result, there’re fewer listeners of jazz, which is a great shame, because it’s an incredibly rich genre. But that’s not to say there isn’t any good new jazz music being made out there anymore. Far from it. It’s just a much smaller market today.
M: So how would you define jazz?
W: Well, interestingly enough, [3] there’s no agreed-upon definition of jazz. Indeed, there are many different styles of jazz. Some have singing, but most don’t. Some are electric and some aren’t. Some contain live experimentation, but not always. While there’s no simple definition for it, and while there’re many different styles of jazz, you simply know it when you hear it. [4] Honestly, the only way to know what jazz is, is listen to it yourself. As a great trumpet player, Louis Armstrong said, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.
1. What do we learn about the woman’s store?
【试题答案】D
【试题解析】题目问关于女士商店的信息。对话开头，女士提到他们是伦敦唯一专门经营爵士乐的唱片店，因此D选项“它只专注于爵士乐”正确。A选项“展出新音乐人才的专辑”最具有干扰性，主要是利用录音中的new music talent设干扰，女士只是说他们致力于培养新的音乐人才，在录音室为他们制作专辑，并没有提到她的店展出新音乐人才的专辑，因此A选项错误；B选项“它在伦敦有几家分店”以及C选项“它赞助大型爵士音乐会”在录音中均没有信息提及。
2. What does the man say about jazz music?
【试题答案】A
【试题解析】题目问关于爵士乐，男士说了什么？男士说现在已经没有多少爵士乐的音乐圈子了，意在表达爵士乐不那么流行了。因此A选项“它的市场现在已经萎缩”符合男士的说法。B选项“它起源于牛仔”在录音中没有提及；C选项“它仍然像嘻哈音乐一样广泛传播”，录音说现在大多数年轻人喜欢听流行音乐和摇滚音乐，美国的嘻哈音乐也越来越受欢迎，爵士乐的听众越来越少，因此C选项不正确；D选项“它的听众大多是年轻人”，录音中只是提及年轻人喜欢听流行音乐和摇滚音乐，并没有说爵士乐的听众也是年轻人，因此D选项不正确。
3. What does the woman say about jazz?
【试题答案】D
【试题解析】题目问关于爵士乐，女士说了什么？女士在回答什么是爵士乐时提到，人们对爵士乐并没有一致的定义，也就是说“爵士乐的定义是多样的，复杂的”，D选项是录音原文的同义转述，因此正确。A选项“它的风格基本上没有变化”，录音提到爵士乐有 很多不同的风格，但并未提及风格没有变化，因此A选项不正确；B选项“它仍在进行实验”，利用录音中的experimentation设干扰，录音只是说爵士乐的风格中有些包含现场实验音乐，并不是说音乐在进行实验，因此B选项错误；C选项“它经常伴有歌声”与录音中说的“有些有演唱，但大多数没有”不符，因此错误。
4. What should you do to appreciate different styles of jazz according to the woman?
【试题答案】B
【试题解析】题目问女士认为应该怎么做才能欣赏不同风格的爵士乐？录音最后，女士提到，要知道爵士乐是什么，唯一的方法就是自己去听，因此B选项“自己听”正确。A选项“学会演奏”；C选项“上音乐课”以及D选项“咨询爵士音乐家”均未在录音中提及，因此不正确。
