阅读疑问（95-2000第5、6套）

saltsberryUID: 156561

第五套 section 1
24题
according to the passage, john coltrane did all of the following during his career except
正确答案为e
eliminate the influence of bebop on his own music
原文
第一段倒数第三行
coltran largely abadoned playing bebop..........
第二段倒数第三行
（coltrane）.......was never able to jettison completely the influence of bebop.........
这两句话说明john coltrane 有意识的放弃bebop,与答案矛盾，不解。。。。

saltsberryUID: 156561

觉得应该有g友做了这两套题的吧，那位做过发表一下意见？？？

kevinsuperUID: 147483

我当时选的时候也觉得e对!
但是abcd都有说到,估计用排除法吧~~~
做gre阅读不能太叫真儿了!有时候就是无耻的凭感觉,甚至一个词就把选项选出来了~~毕竟时间是非常紧的,没有时间多想!
我看,至于选了这个,为什么对,我们根本不用研究,那是教gre老师的事情~~~我们只要研究其他的为什么不对,或者怎么一眼就把这个选项看出来,又快又准,就得了!

大狒狒_小狒狒UID: 3327460

九年过去了，无耻的留个名，同问！
总感觉D是对的

还是把文章贴出来吧：

Proponents of different jazz styles have always argued that their predecessors’ musical style did not include essential characteristics that define jazz as jazz. Thus, 1940’s swing was belittled by beboppers of the 1950’s, who were themselves attacked by free jazzers of the 1960’s. The neoboppers of the 1980’s and 1990’s attacked almost everybody else. The titanic figure of Black saxophonist John Coltrane has complicated the arguments made by proponents of styles from bebop through neobop because in his own musical journey he drew from all those styles. His influence on all types of jazz was immeasurable. At the height of his popularity, Coltrane largely abandoned playing bebop, the style that had brought him fame, to explore the outer reaches of jazz.
此人功名成就，又敢于摒弃传统，探索新世界，正评！
Coltrane himself probably believed that the only essential characteristic of jazz was improvisation, the one constant in his journey from bebop to open-ended improvisations on modal, Indian, and African melodies. On the other hand, this dogged student and prodigious technician—who insisted on spending hours each day practicing scales from theory books—was never able to jettison completely the influence of bebop, with its fast and elaborate chains of notes and ornaments on melody.
Two stylistic characteristics shaped the way Coltrane played the tenor saxophone, 【开说此人用乐器的特点了！】he favored playing fast runs of notes built on a melody and depended on heavy, regularly accented beats. The first led Coltrane to “sheets of sound,” where he raced faster and faster, pile-driving notes into each other to suggest stacked harmonies. The second meant that his sense of rhythm was almost as close to rock as to bebop.
Three recordings illustrate Coltrane’s energizing explorations. Recording Kind of Blue with Miles Davis, Coltrane found himself outside bop, exploring modal melodies. Here he played surging, lengthy solos built largely around repeated motifs—an organizing principle unlike that of free jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman, who modulated or altered melodies in his solos. On Giant Steps, Coltrane debuted as leader, introducing his own compositions. Here the sheets of sound, downbeat accents, repetitions, and great speed are part of each solo, and the variety of the shapes of his phrases is unique. Coltrane’s searching explorations produced solid achievement. My Favorite Things was another kind of watershed. Here Coltrane played the soprano saxophone, an instrument seldom used by jazz musicians. Musically, the results were astounding. With the soprano’s piping sound, ideas that had sounded dark and brooding acquired a feeling of giddy fantasy.
When Coltrane began recording for the Impulse! label, he was still searching. His music became raucous, physical. His influence on rockers was enormous, including Jimi Hendrix, the rock guitarist, who, following Coltrane, raised the extended guitar solo using repeated motifs to a kind of rock art form.

24.        According to the passage, John Coltrane did all of the following during his career EXCEPT:
(A) improvise on melodies from a number of different cultures
(B) perform as leader as well as soloist
(C) spend time improving his technical skills
(D) experiment with the sounds of various instruments
(E) eliminate the influence of bebop on his own music