11. Who was the first to discover Ella Fitzgeralds talent?
12. According to the passage, what was Bessie Smith?
13.What does the passage imply about Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong?
Passage Two
How men first learned to invent words is unknown
in other words,the origin of language is a mystery
All we really know is that men
unlike animals,somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feeling
actions and things so that they could communicate with each other
and that later they agreed upon certain sign called letters,
which could be combined to represent those sounds
and which could be written down
Those sounds,whether spoken or written in letters,we call words.
The power of words, then, lies in their associations--
the things they bring up before our minds.
Words become filled with meaning for us by experience
and the longer we live
the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past
and the more we read and learn
the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts
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