History, as we know, is filled with facts, with places, names, dates, and events.
History is also filled with feelings, with pain, joy, excitement, and fear.
Facts are set down in books, but what happens to feelings? How can you take the pain, for example, and write it into a history book? You can’t. But you can put it to music. Take the blues for example.
The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue. The early blues was the beginning of other musical styles, from jazz to rock and roll.
Music, you might say, is a record of feelings.
Of course, facts are important: the civil rights movement, the race for space, the Vietnam War. But the feelings behind these events – the pride of being black, the excitement of a rocket blast (点火起飞), the pain of a war – are also an important part of history.
小题1:In the passage, the word “blue” and the word “blues” are related to __________.
A．a feeling and a kind of music
B．a color
C．a kind of music and a person
D．people and their feelings小题2:According to the writer’s idea, what can make people feel blue?
A．A history book
B．Music.
C．History.
D．Hard times.小题3:Besides the above, the writer also explains ___________.
A．what caused the Vietnam War
B．the feelings behind some important events
C．the relation between history and music
D．why he wrote the article
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
题目分析：这篇短文主要向我们讲述了什么是历史，及人民在一些历史事件后的感受。
小题1:根据The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue.描述，可知blue与人的感情有关，blues与音乐有关，故选A。
小题2:根据The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue.描述，可知艰难的时刻，使人们闷闷不乐。故选D。
小题3:通过短文最后一段可知，作者也解释了一些重大事件后的感受。故选B。
点评：本文中长句较多，一时很难读懂句子含义，注意多读几遍，不要强求非得理解一词一句的含义，能把握文章大意就行。然后带着问题阅读短文，一般就能顺利找出答题依据。对于不能直接找到根据的问题注意联系上下文，根据短文中心总结出正确答案。
