1、Unit 5 Nelson Mandela-a modern hero using language 课时作业第一节 阅读理解（共 20 小题：每小题 2 分，满分 40 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，迭出最佳选项。AIn Shanghais Grand Theater, a fashionable, mainly young audience applauds enthusiastically as Guo Yong takes center stage. He holds a large bushy tree branch with leaves. Blowin
2、g on one of the leaves, he produces a sound like the singing of birds as he plays a traditional Buyi folk song. Some other musicians are also playing the traditional instruments from various ethnic groups in China.Its the first time such music has ever been performed in the Grand Theater. But all th
3、is is the efforts of Zhu Zheqin, a Cantonese-born singer; who has made it her mission to help preserve Chinas traditional ethnic music.Several years ago, after being appointed a United Nations Development Program ambassador, Zhu traveled through some of Chinas remotest regions in an attempt to docum
4、ent the traditional music of various minority groups. In the course other four- month trip, she recorded more than a thousand songs. But she noticed that many of the best musicians were old, and some of the music was at risk of dying out.“I was shocked the beauty of what I heard-it was so good,” she
5、 says. “But it needed support. I hope to let people see the beauty of these things in the contemporary times.”So Zhu decided to introduce some of the musicians to a wider audience. By doing this, she hopes to rekindle (再次点燃) the interest of the younger generation. “Young people dont like this music
6、much; they prefer pop music and love songs. They think these songs are something their grandma sings. This kind of repackaging gives young people a new door into their heritage.”Zhu believes China needs to look again at its own roots. “China today is basically all Western art; in our conservatories
7、(音乐学院) Western classical music is the top,” she says. “For China to really contribute to the world, we need to go on our own path. So what can represent China today?” The answer, she suggests, is to move from “made in China” to “created in China”.1. From the first paragraph, we learn that .A. the au
8、dience are all young peopleB. Guo Yong is playing the Buyi folk musicC. Guo Yong is the only minority performer on the stageD. tree branches make good musical instruments2. Which of the following is TRUE of Zhu Zheqin?A. She teaches music in a conservatories.B. She is helping preserve Chinese ethnic
9、 music.C. She works as an official in the United Nations.D. Shes created all the music for the Grand Theater.3. Zhu Zheqin traveled to some of Chinas remotest regions to .A. record the traditional ethnic musicB. help the local musicians play the musicC. show the UN Chinese musical traditionsD. enjoy
10、 the music of various ethnic groups4. What is Zhu Zheqins idea about Chinese traditional music?A. It is completely out of date.B. Only old musicians play it well.C. It needs changes to attract young people.D. It is quickly dying out5. What does Zhu Zheqin mean in the last paragraph?A. The traditiona
11、l music should be repackaged.B. Chinese conservatories shouldnt teach Western music.C. China has contributed a lot to the Western art.D. Only the things ere ate din China can be symbols of China.【答案】BBACD【解析】试题分析：这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了歌手朱哲琴将中国少数民族传统音乐整理再包装后向年轻人推广的故事，呼吁读者重视传统，保护中国传统民族音乐。1. 细节理解题。由第一段的“Blowing
12、 on one of the leaves，he produces a sound like the singing of birds as he plays a traditional Buyi folk song”可知，Guo Yong 演奏的是布依族的民族音乐。故选 B。2. 细节理解题。由第二段的“But all this is the efforts of Zhu Zheqin，a Cantonese-born singer，who has made it her mission to help preserve Chinas traditional ethnic music.”可知
13、，朱哲琴致力于保护中国的传统音乐。故选 B。3. 细节理解题。由第三段的“Zhu traveled through some of Chinas remotest regions in an attempt to document the traditional music of various minority groups”可知，朱哲琴去中国偏僻地区旅行是为了尝试记录各个少数民族的传统音乐。故选 A。4. 推理判断题。由第四段朱哲琴的话以及第五段最后一句“This kind of repackaging gives young people a new door into their he
14、ritage”可知，为获得年轻人的兴趣，这些歌曲被重装包装了。因此推断朱哲琴认为传统音乐需要改变以便吸引年轻人的注意。故选 C。5. 推理判断题。由最后一段的“So what can represent China today? The answer, she suggests, is to move from made in China” to “created in China.”可知，最后一段谈到“什么能够代表中国“ ，然后又提出答案是由“ 中国制造 “转变为“中国创造“，故 D 项：只有在中国创造的东西才是中国的象征，为正确选项。故选 D。【点睛】人物故事类阅读理解是高考英语常考材料之
15、一。这类文章一般可分为人物传记和短篇故事两类。一般来说文章较长，词数多，命题也较多，特别是推理判断题和事实细节题多。在做此类阅读理解题时往往是材料看得懂，题目不好做的感觉。因此，在阅读材料时要重点放在事情发展的过程和结果上，注意把握事件的发展进程及人物之间的关系，细节与主题的关系，用以说明人物性格特点的事实、作者的态度等，这些内容往往是推理判断题的命题点至于事实细节题的解答，同学们切忌想当然或者凭印象，一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确选择。例如：小题 4，题干：What is Zhu Zheqins idea about Chinese traditional music?，
16、通读全文可知，第四段阐述了朱哲琴的想法，从她说的话可以推断她的想法，震惊于传统音乐的美，希望让更多人欣赏这种美，第五段也是她说的话，从最后一句 This kind of repackaging gives young people a new door into their heritage.可推断，她认为重新包装过的传统音乐为年轻人打开了一扇门。这是朱哲琴关于传统音乐的想法：传统音乐需要改变以便吸引年轻人的主意。故选 C。BTeens dont understand the big fuss (小题大做). As the first generation to grow up in a wi
17、red world they hardly know a time when computers werent around, and they eagerly catch the chance to spend hours online, chatting with friends, so what?But researchers nationwide are increasingly worried that teens are becoming isolated, less skillful at person-to-per son relationships, and perhaps
18、numb to the cheatings that are so much a part of the e-mail world. “And a teens sense of self and values may be changed in a world where personal connections can be limitless,” said Shetty Turkle.Another researcher, Robert Kraut, said hes worried about the “opportunity costs” of so much online time
19、for youths. He found that teens who used computers, even just a few hours a week, showed increased signs of loneliness and social isolation. “Chatting online may be better than watching television, but its worse than hanging out with real friends,” he said.Todays teens, however, dont see anything st
20、range in the fact that the computer takes up a central place in their social lives. “School is busy and full of pressure. Theres almost no time to just hang out,” said Parker Rice, 17 “Talking online is just to catch time.”Teens say they feel good about what they say online or taking the lime to thi
21、nk about a reply. Some teens admit that asking someone for a date, or breaking up, can be easier in message form, though they dont want to do so. But they insist theres no harm.6. The researchers argue that .A. teens develop a different sense of valuesB. nothing i s wrong with teens chatting onlineC
22、. teens can manage their social connectionsD. spending hours online does much goo d to teens7. Teens think that talking online can help them .A. use computers properlyB. improve their school workC. develop an interest in social skillsD. reduce their mental pressures8. The text mainly deals with .A.
23、teens pleasant online experienceB. teens computer skills and school workC. the effects of the computer world on teensD. different opinions on teens chatting online9. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Teens are more skillful at person-to-person relationships.B. Teens showed decreasing signs of loneli
24、ness and social isolation.C. Chatting online is worse than hanging out with real friends.D. Asking someone for a date, or breaking can be more difficult in message form.10. The purpose of the text is to .A. de scribe computer re se arch re suitsB. draw attention to teens computer habitsC. suggest wa
25、ys to deal with problem teensD. discuss problems teens have at school【答案】6. A 7. D 8. D 9. C 10. B【解析】试题分析:这是一篇社会现象类文章。主要讲述网络对青少年造成的不良影响,希望引起社会关注。 6. 细节理解题。由第二段中的“And a teens sense of self and values may be changed in a world where personal connections can be limitless”可知，全国各地的研究人员认为青少年可能会形成不同的价值观。故
26、选 A。7. 细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的“School is busy and full of pressures.Theres almost no time to just hang out.” said Parker Rice,17.“Talking online is just catch time.” 可知，青少年认为上网聊天可以帮助他们减少精神压力。故选 D。8. 主旨大意题。文章第一段提出主题，青少年花费很长时间在网上聊天；第二到四段讲述几种对青少年上网聊天的不同观点；最后一段讲述青少年的个人对上网聊天的看法，综上所述可知，文章主要讲述了有关青少年上网聊天的几种不同观点。故选 D
27、。9. 细节理解题。由第三段提到的“Chatting online may be better than watching television, but its worse than hanging out with real friends”可知，网上聊天可能比看电视好但是比起与真正的朋友闲逛更糟糕。故选 C。10. 写作目的题。纵观全文可知，作者通过客观描述人们青少年上网的几种不同的观点，作者客观地表达了青少年上网的坏处，也就不难推断文章的写作目的是为了引起人们对青少年上网习惯的注意。故选 B。【点睛】不同的文章可能有不同的写作目的, 通常作者的写作目的有以下三种：1) to enter
28、tain readers（娱乐读者，让人发笑） ，常见于故事类的文章。2) to persuade readers（说服读者接受某种观点）常见于广告类的文章。3) to inform readers （告知读者某些信息）多见于科普类新闻报道类文化类或社会类的文章。这种文章通常以议论文为主，文章的主题句、核心句往往会直接或间接地表明作者的态度立场；体裁包括说明文和描述文。前者因为其体裁的客观性，所以作者的态度也往往采取中立。而后者因为其文章观点往往不直接提出，但是作者写作时常带有某种倾向性，所以，阅读时要善于根据文章的文体来学会推断作者的情感态度和目的。例如小题 5，本题考查文章的写作目的。本文
29、是一篇科普类说明文，作者通过客观描述人们青少年上网的几种不同的观点，作者客观地表达了青少年上网的坏处，也就不难推断文章的写作目的是为了引起人们对青少年上网习惯的注意。故选 B。CAs kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friends house and found him not at home, his mother might s
30、ay, “Oh, hes out in the woods,” with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. Its similar to the tone people sometimes use now a days to tell me that someone Im looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk”. For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to
31、do whatever we feel like for awhile.We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though seemed to have less system than the historic ki
32、nd something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound.Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someo
33、ne does that successfully, be skeptical; the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly-tall beeches easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.It was in a tree,
34、 too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, a
35、nd all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.11. The author and his friends were often out in the woods to .A. spend their free timeB. play g
36、olf and other sportsC. avoid doing their schoolworkD. keep away from their parents12. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?A. The activities in the woods were well planned.B. Human history is not the result of exploration.C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.D. The author explored in the woo
37、ds aimlessly13. The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to .A. calm B. doubtfulC. serious D. optimistic14. The reason why we visited the four or five trees regularly is the following except that .A. they were tall beechesB. they were easy to climbC. they were not hi to c
38、limbD. they were comfortable to sit in15. How does the author feel about his childhood?A. Happy but short B. Lonely but memorable.C. Boring and meaningless. D. Long and unforgettable.【答案】ADBCA【解析】试题分析：这是一篇记叙文。主要描述了小时侯玩耍的“树林”对与作者和朋友们的意义。讲述了我们在“树林”中所从事的活动探索，以及随着年龄的增长，不再去那里的经历。11. 细节理解题。由第一段的“For us te
39、n-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.”可知，作者和朋友们经常“去树林中”是为了度过他们的休闲时光。故选 A。12. 推理判断题。由第二段的“Our explorations, though seemed to have less system than the historic kind something usually came up along the way. ”可知，但是我们的探索与历史上的相比不够系统，有些东西通常都是在沿途中
40、偶然出现的，因此推断作者探索是无目的的。故选 D。13. 词义猜测题。由画线词的后一句“the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees.”可知，最高的树枝通常太细以至于不能承重，所以我们从来不能爬到可以看到除了树以外的其它事物。因此推断爬到树上找出路是“不可信；怀疑的”的，与 B 项意义相近。故选 B。14. 细节理解题。由第三段“There were four or five t
41、rees that we visited regularly-tall beeches easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.”可知，有四五棵树是我们经常去参观的它们由高大的树枝，容易爬上去，坐在上面也很舒服。故选 C。 15. 推理判断题，由第一段最后一句“ For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.”可知，作者和小伙伴们在“树林”里很快乐；由最后一段“We climbed a tr
42、ee, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.”可推断在不知不觉间作者和小伙伴们都已经长大了，时光过的很快。所以作者对童年的感觉应该是快乐的，短暂的，但又是难忘的。故选 A。DMany animals recognize the
43、ir food because they see it. So do humans. When you see an apple or apiece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. You can also use other senses when you choose your food. You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good. You may dislike some types of food because th
44、ey do not look, smell or taste very nice. Different animals use different senses to find and choose their food. A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more than one sense.Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one
45、 type. The giant panda eats only one particular type of bamboo. Other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice. A land of white butterfly will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden. However, most animals have a more varied
46、 diet. The bear eats fruits and fish. The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits. The diet of these animals will be different depending on the season.Humans have a very varied diet. We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for us. In countries such as France and Britain, peo
47、ple eat foods with too much sugar. This makes them overweight, which is bad for their health Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter, can also be bad for the health Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life.16. We can infer from the text that
48、 humans and animals .A. depend on one sense in choosing foodB. are not satisfied with their foodC. choose food in similar waysD. eat entirely different food17. Which of the following eats only one type of food?A. The white butterfly B. The small bird. C. The bear. D. The fox.18. Certain animals chan
49、ge their choice of food when .A. the season changesB. the food color changesC. they move to different placesD. they are attracted by different smells19. We can learn from the last paragraph that .A. food is chosen for a good reasonB. French and British food is goodC. some people have few choices of foodD. some people care little about healthy diet20. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Animals often use senses to eat their foodB. Most animals have a more varied diet.C. All animals spend their lives ea
