1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家Unit 5 课时跟踪检测(六) Warm-up & Lesson 1 Pre-reading阅读理解AThe arts, especially music, should be part of every schools lessons at every grade level.Students would be much smarter if they had some musical experience.They could improve their classroom skills, like paying attention and followi
2、ng directions.People develop all these skills when they learn music.Making music also lets children use their imagination.It provides students with a chance to try out their own ideas.Music not only makes children better students, but also gives them something positive to do.In a music program, chil
3、dren can be part of a band instead of joining a gang (团伙)Parents can enjoy listening to their childrens music instead of seeing them glued_to_a computer or TV screen.In a school band, students get to be part of a team.They can get along well with old friends and make new friends through music.Music
4、builds selfconfidence, too.It gives children a sense of achievement and success.Making music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practice performing in front of the audience.Music gives children an opportunity for selfexpression, and that helps develop their selfconfidence.Once ag
5、ain, music is important because it can make children better students, give them something positive to do, and build their character.That is why music should be offered in every single grade in every school.语篇解读：音乐在学生的成长过程中其作用不容忽视，是学校必须设置的一门课程。1According to the passage, music could make students smar
6、ter by _.Aimproving their classroom skills and paying attentionBimproving their classroom skills and imaginationCimproving their attention, direction and imaginationDlearning music, making music and trying out their own ideas解析：选B细节理解题。根据第一段第二句“Students would be much smarter if they had some musical
7、 experience.”和第三句“They could improve their classroom skills .”和第五句“Making music also lets children use their imagination.”可知B项正确。2What does the underlined phrase “glued to” in the second paragraph mean?AUnwilling to turn on.BAlways looking.CUnwilling to leave. DAlways playing.解析：选C词义猜测题。父母能够享受听他们的孩子
8、玩音乐的乐趣而不是看见他们不乐意离开(unwilling to leave)电脑或电视屏幕。根据语境可推断C项正确。3The third paragraph mainly tells us that music could _.Agive children selfexpression and selfconfidenceBbring to children achievement and successCgive children something to be proud ofDdevelop childrens selfconfidence解析：选D段落大意题。根据第三段首句“Music
9、 builds selfconfidence, too.”可知D项正确。4Whats the best title for this passage?AMusic is a must as a course at schoolBMusic builds childrens selfconfidenceCMusic makes students much smarterDLearning music and making music解析：选A标题归纳题。第一段第一句“The arts, especially music, should be part of every schools lesso
10、ns at every grade level.”即本篇文章的主题句。故A项为最佳答案。B“If music is the medicine of the soul, let it play on，” said a famous person. I think he said so probably because he had got some help from music. Music has some strange functions. Medical scientists have found that a person who feels stressed can actuall
11、y listen to a certain kind of music and become relaxed.Researchers said that since stress comes as a result of some events in life such as starting a new family, starting a new business and starting a new job, one can actually listen to good music and feel good because good music touches humans in a
12、 positive way. Music helps you forget these events that make you worried and remember the important events that once happened in your life.Depression (抑郁症) is a disease caused by stress, smoking, social problems, etc. Depression is also caused by difficulties such as failure in business. Depression
13、may bring us weakness, headaches and loss of concentration. Good music makes one remember happy moments or days. If you play music about love, it makes you feel like falling in love again though you may have had several upset experiences. And such good feelings make you healthy.Anxiety is another he
14、alth problem that can be controlled by music. Anxiety is side effects of some major health problems such as liver cancer and breast cancer. Good music makes you feel relaxed and relieves the pain caused by these diseases and you will feel better. Good music also makes you sleep better, and you need
15、to know that sleep puts your body in a healthy condition. Good sleep takes away the effects of stress, depression and anxiety from a person.语篇解读：在本文中作者指出了音乐在缓解抑郁、焦虑和压力等方面的积极作用。5According to the famous person in Paragraph 1, music can _.Atreat many kinds of diseasesBhelp you keep mentally healthyCtak
16、e the place of medicine in treating illnessDmake you remember things that happened in the past解析：选B推理判断题。第一段中提到一位名人说音乐是治疗人的心灵的良药。由此可知，音乐有利于人的心理健康。故选B。6Good music helps people remove stress mainly by _.Aletting people have a good sleepBmaking people think positivelyCshowing something new to peopleDma
17、king people focus only on important things解析：选B细节理解题。根据第二段中的“because good music touches humans in a positive way”可知，好的音乐通过使人们积极正面地思考来消除压力。故选B。7According to the passage, what will one who has cancer most probably experience?AStress.BDepression.CAnxiety. DUpset.解析：选C细节理解题。根据第四段中的第二句“Anxiety is side ef
18、fects of some major health problems such as liver cancer and breast cancer”可知，患癌症的人最有可能会感到焦虑。故选C项。8Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?AThe benefits of listening to music to healthBStress can bring us many kinds of diseasesCSome diseases have something to do with musicDTip
19、s for us to live a healthy and comfortable life解析：选A标题归纳题。本文主要讲了听音乐对健康的好处。故A项最适合当标题。CMost people want to know how things are made.They honestly admit, however, that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made.Where a composer begins, how he manages to keep go
20、ing in fact, how and where he leans his trade all are covered_in_complete_darkness.The composer, in short, is a man of mystery (神秘)One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration(灵感) which plays in a composers works.He finds it difficult to believe that composers a
21、re not much interested in that question.Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all.Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.The composer, therefore, does not say to himself: “Do I feel inspired？” He says to himself: “Do I feel like working to
22、day？” And if he feels like working, he does.It is more or less like saying to himself: “Do I feel sleepy？” if you feel sleepy, you go to sleep.If you dont feel sleepy, you stay up.If the composer doesnt feel like working, he doesnt work.Its as simple as that.语篇解读：本篇文章指出作曲家作曲应该是在有灵感时才可以创作，这就像吃饭、睡觉一样，
23、是一个自然的过程。9What would be the best title for the text?AComposer: a man of mysteryBPractice makes good musicCRelation between sleeping and musicDMusic: product of nature解析：选A标题归纳题。文章主要讲了作曲家神秘的作曲过程。10The underlined words “covered in complete darkness” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean “_”Adifficult to b
24、e madeBwithout any light Cblack in color Dnot known解析：选D词义猜测题。“how he manages to keep going in fact, how and where he leans his trade all are covered in complete darkness”该句解释对于作曲家作曲的过程是不被了解的，用完全的黑暗指事情不为人所知。11Most people seem to think that a composer _.Afinds it difficult to write musicBconsiders it
25、 important to have a good restCshould like to talk about inspiration Dnever asks himself very simple questions解析：选C推理判断题。由倒数第二段可以看出，人们认为作曲家作曲应该是在有灵感时才可以创作。12The author will most probably agree that composers _.Aare born with a gift for music Bare people full of mysteryCwork late at night for their musicDknow a lot about eating and sleeping解析：选A观点态度题。由最后一段可知作者可能同意作曲家具有与生俱来的音乐天赋，就像吃饭、睡觉一样的道理。- 5 - 版权所有高考资源网