普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修8 Unit 1 Reading Task

　　Over the next few years, Louis improved as a musician and in 1922 he began travelling to other cities in the United States where he introduced his particular style of jazz to enthusiastic audiences. In 1924, he began recording his music and from that time on musicians from everywhere would listen to him. Before long, he had become a very big jazz star, as popular as major rock stars are today. Louis loved entertaining people and toured all over the United States before travelling to Europe in 1932.

　　As well as playing with his band and recording his music for almost 50 years, Louis Armstrong acted in over 50 movies and wrote two autobiographies. He was able to communicate with people from many different backgrounds - rich and poor, famous and ordinary, educated and uneducated, musicians and non-musicians. For this reason the government encouraged him to travel to foreign countries, especially Europe and Africa, as an unofficial goodwill ambassador (非官方亲善大使) for the United States. He spoke publicly about the rights of black people in America, using his fame to help in the fight for equal rights for all American citizens.

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