题目内容：

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner, Lester Young, Holiday had a great influence on jazz and pop singing. Her voiced style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of controlling tempo (节奏). Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and direct approach to singing.

She co-wrote a few songs, and several of them have become jazz standards, notably God Bless the Child, Don’t Explain, and Lady Sings the Blues. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including Easy Living and Strange Fruit.

Her early career is hard to track down with accuracy. But she later gained work singing in local jazz clubs before being spotted by a talent scout (星探), John Hammond in 1933.

Her voice and recordings were loved for the depth of emotion and intensity she could bring to classic standards. Her range of voice was not the greatest, but her extraordinary low rough voice was soon to become very famous and influential.

She was an important icon (偶像) of the jazz era and influential in the development of jazz singing. In the late 1930s, she began singing a civil rights song called Strange Fruit, a song which told the tale of a lynching (用私刑处死) of a black man in the Deep South. It was very controversial for that period and it was not played on radios. It was recorded for Commodore Records and she performed it many times over the next 20 years.

Billie Holiday had a difficult upbringing which influenced her attitude toward life. She experienced many violent relationships. She also became increasingly dependent on various drugs which contributed to her early death in 1959, aged just 44.

1.What made Holiday develop a new way of controlling tempo?

A. Her musical partner.    B. Her voiced style.

C. Jazz instrumentalists.    D. Her direct approach to singing.

2.Why was the song Strange Fruit banned on radios?

A. It was about a cruel story.    B. It was recorded very badly.

C. It concerned civil rights.    D. It was performed many times.

3.It can be learned from the text that Holiday _____.

A. had the greatest range of voice

B. was gifted and had a happy childhood

C. wrote a few songs including Easy Living

D. was famous for her voice and way of singing

4.Which of the following had a great effect on Holiday?

a. John Hammond                   

b. Her independence

c. Jazz instrumentalists               

d. Her hard experiences of growing

A. a, b, c    B. a, b, d

C. a, c, d    D. b, c, d