Louis Armstrong had two famous nicknames. Some people called him Bagamo. They said his mouth looked like a large bag. Musicians often called him Pops, as a sign of respect for his influence on the world of music.
Born in 1901 in New Orleans, he grew up poor, but lived among great musicians. Jazz had been invented in the city a few years before his birth. Armstrong often said, "Jazz and I grew up together. "
Armstrong showed a great talent for music when he was taught to play the comet at a boy’s home. In his late teens, Armstrong began to live the life of a musician, lie played in parades, clubs, and on the steamboats that traveled on the Mississippi River. At that time, New Orleans was famous for the new music of jazz and was home to many great musicians. Armstrong learned from the older musicians and soon became respected as their equal.
In 1922 he went to Chicago. There, the tale of Louis Armstrong began. From then until the end of his l
A. looked like a musician
B. was a musician of much influence
C. showed an interest in music
D. traveled to play modem music
At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online course in 2004, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering "face-to-face" courses also offer online ones. But what were once two distinct types of classes are looking more and more alike--and often dipping into the same pool of students.
At some schools, online courses--originally intended for nontraditional students living far from campus--have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study by South Dakota’s Board of Regents found 42 percent of the students enrolled in its distance-education courses weren’t so distant: they were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online course.
Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and "face-to-face" credits. Motives range from lifestyle to acc
A. online courses are becoming more important than traditional courses
B. online courses were different from traditional courses
C. online courses are becoming more popular in college education
D. online courses are actually not different from traditional courses
| Some 23 million additional U.S. residents are
expected to become more regular users of the U.S. health care system in the next
several years, thanks to the passage of health care reform.Digitizing medical
data has been promoted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the
surge in patients. But putting people’s health information in databases and
online is going to do more than simply reduce redundancies. It is already
shifting the very way we seek and receive health care. "The social dynamics of care are changing," says John Gomez, vice president of Eclipsys, a medical information technology company. Most patients might not yet be willing to share their latest CT scan images over Facebook, he notes, but many parents post their babies’ ultrasound images, and countless patients nowadays use social networking sites t A. enables more Americans to join the health care system B. contributes to the passage of health care reform C. increases the burden of the U.S. health care system D. changes how people seek and receive health care 我来回答: 提交
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