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Jazz at Preservation Hall






Preservation Hall, in New Orleans, is an old building that can hold only 125 people. But tourists, many of them serious music lovers, go there from all over the world and pay one dollar to sit on plain wooden chairs or benches or on the floor, crowded together.

At the front of the hall is a group of four, five or six musicians in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties, with their instruments. They play for more than four hours each night. Their music is a kind now rarely heard anywhere else - until recently the style had been all but forgotten and so had the musicians. Almost all of them had given up their music and 'were working at various different kinds of work or just wandering around with little purpose. Jazz music had gone on from New Orleans to spread around the world, but the early jazz style was no longer popular and had been forgotten.

One person who remembered and loved old New Orleans jazz was music historian William Russel. He found the legendary trumpet player working in a rice field, old and sick. It was Bunk Johnson. Though Johnson never got back his greatness, he awoke a new interest in his kind of music. Later, more of the old musicians were found, old groups were put together again, and with the opening of Preservation Hall, the real old jazz music and those who loved it began to go back to New Orleans.

The musicians seem to play as well as they ever did. They play the songs they want to play. Some of the groups even travel around the country, taking their music to the people.

Those people who hear this jazz know that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will never be heard again, played by those who created it-who themselves will soon be gone.

(From " Encounters". A Basic Reader)

II. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. How old are the musicians? 2. Where was Bunk Johnson found? 3. How many hours do they play? 4. Is that music popular? 5. What do the musicians play? 6. Why does the author say that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will be never heard, again?

III. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.

IV. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:

empty, bravery, beauty, burn, dial, brainless, notable, vibrate

V. Выпишите из текста и переведите предложения: а) с модальным глаголом can, б) с глаголом в прошедшем неопределенном времени в страдательном залоге.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:

a) The Olympic Games are held every four years in a different country. b) Do you play games?

a) Hehas no chance to win the game with his little brother. b) She stands a good chance of becoming a good actress. c) He chanced to be there at that time.

VII. Закончите предложения:

a) Are you going...? b) I haven't.... c) They have been.... d) They aren't asked.... e) Do they study...?


Вариант 5

I. Прочтите и переведите текст:


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