1、山东德州2013届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精练精析30Good morning. The program today is about music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but it uses sounds. Todays program brings together music from differen
2、t corners of the world. Who invented music? Who sang the first song? No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyones life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to
3、 sing the songs they have heard. When children go to school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades students take music lessons. When they reach high school, they become more and more interested in listening to pop music. The records we have chosen for you today are from American country m
4、usic, Indian music, pop music and so on. Music has different meanings for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad. Music is now heard everywhere, in shops and buses and at home. In this program we shall study the language of music. We shall be trying to find out more about how mus
5、ic works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another is bad. Now, here comes the music today, I shall explain why they are all good music. . . 1. What is the first paragraph mainly about? A.
6、 Some knowledge about music. B. The origin of music. C. Something about the announcer. D. Some questions about music. 2. Which of the following is not the purpose of this music program? A. To study the language of music. B. To learn more about music. C. To find out how music expresses peoples feelin
7、gs. D. To tell us we should listen to music every day. 3. What does the announcer think about the function of music in our life? A. It is important to almost everyone. B. It is necessary for the young. C. It plays a great role when we are children. D. It decides our future. 4. The text will continue
8、 to talk about some _ . A. old and unpopular musicB. nice and popular musicC. songs sung by the young todayD. reasons why some composers play such music（B）We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class. “You could win prizes, ” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information o
9、n the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. ”We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors ag
10、ainst the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. Im going to spend mine on candies, one
11、 hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich. Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins(餐巾纸), while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our
12、 art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewers attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of the sort they seemed especially fond of
13、, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners. I believe I drew a sailboat, but I cant say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen, and then I turned it in. Minutes p
14、assed. No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again. I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, What poster? when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone in the class app
15、lauded for me. 1. What was the teachers requirement for the poster? A. It must appear in time. B. It must be done in class. C. It must be done on a construction sheet. D. It must include the words on the blackboard. 2. The underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means _ . A. formed an idea fo
16、rB. made an outline forC. made some space forD. chose some colors for3. After seeing the good students designs, some students _ . A. loved their own designs moreB. thought they had a fair chanceC. put their own designs in a cornerD. thought they would not win the prize4. We can infer from the passag
17、e that the author _ . A. enjoyed grown-up tricks very muchB. loved poster competitions very muchC. felt surprised to win the competitionD. became wise and rich after the competition答案解析1.【解析】选A。主旨大意题。第一段主要讨论了这个节目主要涉及世界各地的音乐，然后对音乐进行了阐述。故选A。2.【解析】选D。细节理解题。A、B、C三项在第二段中都提到了，文章未提及D项。故选D。3.【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据
18、第一段的But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyones life. 以及下文的内容可知。4.【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据最后一段可知，下面要提到的是一些美好的和受欢迎的音乐，并解释它们为什么很好。故选B。5.【解析】选 D。细节理解题。由第二段末句，老师说的话You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. 可知老师的要求是黑板上的内容须在海报中出现。6. 【解析】选A。词
19、义猜测题。上下句是Some. . . Others. . . 句式，while we conjured up our designs的对应部分是while deep in thought，可见conjured up的意思是“思考，想像”，故选A。7.【解析】选D。细节理解题。由第四段倒数第二句Some of us would wander past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. 可知有些学生看到优秀学生的作品后, 对自己的参赛作品没有了信心。8.【解析】选C。推理判断题。由. . . alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners, 和. . . I cant say that with any certainty和I probably never. . . 等可推断出，作者对得奖还是很惊讶的。
