1、阅读理解专项训练社会生活类31Most 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（作曲家）begins, how he manages to keep going in fact, how and when he learns his trade all are covered in
2、 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）plays in a composers work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural f
3、or 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 today?” And if he feels like working, he does. It is more or less like
4、 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.57.What would be the best title for the text?A. Composer: a man of mysteryB. Practice makes good musicC.
5、Relation between sleeping and musicD. Music: product of nature58.The words “covered in complete darkness” underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably mean _.A. difficult to be made B. without any light C. black in colorD. not known59.Most people seem to think that a composer _.A. finds it difficult to w
6、rite musicB. considers it important to have a good restC. should like to talk about inspirationD. never asks himself very simple questions60.The author will most probably agree that composers _.A. are born with a gift for musicB. are people full of mysteryC. work late at night for their musicD. know
7、 a lot about eating and sleeping2Professor Barry Wellman of the University of Toronto in Canada has invented a term to describe the way many North Americans interact (互动) these days. The term is “networked individualism”. This concept is not easy to understand because the words seem to have opposite
8、 meanings. How can we be individuals (个体) and be networked at the same time? You need other people for networks.Here is what Professor Wellman means. Before the invention of the Internet and e-mail, our social networks included live interactions with relatives, neighbors, and friends. Some of the in
9、teraction was by phone, but it was still voice to voice, person to person, in real time.A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that for a lot of people, electronic interaction through the computer has replaced this person-to- person interaction. However, a lot o
10、f people interviewed for the Pew study say thats a good thing. Why?In the past, many people were worried that the Internet isolated (孤立) us and caused us to spend too much time in the imaginary world of the computer. But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is true. The Internet connects us wi
11、th more real people than expected helpful people who can give advice on careers, medical problems, raising children, and choosing a school or college. About 60 million Americans told Pew that the Internet plays an important role in helping them make major life decisions.Thanks to the computer, we ar
12、e able to be alone and together with other people at the same time!60. The underlined phrase “networked individualism” probably means that by using computers people _. A. stick to their own ways no matter what other people say B. have the rights and freedom to do things of their own interest C. do t
13、hings in their own ways and express opinions different from other people D. are able to keep to themselves but at the same time reach out to other people61. According to the Pew study, what do many people rely on to make major life decisions? A. Networks.B. Friends.C. Phones.D. Parents.62. It can be
14、 inferred from the Pew study that _. A. people have been separated from each other by using computers B. the Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely C. the Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication D. a lot of people regard the person-to-person communic
15、ation as a good thing63. Which would be the best title for this passage? A. Were Alone on the Internet. B. Were Communicating on the Internet. C. Were Alone Together on the Internet. D. Were in the Imaginary World of the Internet.3Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has rema
16、ined constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before. Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-
17、century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.
18、Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest devel
19、opments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom. Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reali
20、ty in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the
21、 function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings. 72. Leslies paintings are extraordinary beca
22、use . A. they are close in style to works in ancient times B. they look like works by 19th-century painters C. they draw attention to common things in life D. they depend heavily on color photography 73. What is the authors opinion of artistic reality? A. It will not be found in future works of art.
23、 B. It does not have a long-lasting standard. C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form. D. It is lacking in modern works of art. 74. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph? A. They express peoples curiosity about the past. B. They make people interested in everyday expe
24、rience. C. They are considered important for variety in form. D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation. 75. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? A. History of the arts. B. Basic questions of the arts. C. New developments in the arts. D. Use of modern technology in
25、the arts. 4It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious(明显的)to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not k
26、now what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you Lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, dont worry about them. Just continue as i
27、f nothing happened.Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don t really matter. If you have ever listen to Martin Luther King s famous speech“I Have a dream ”, you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) his words twice during the speech, Most likely. however. you dont remember. Why? Be
28、cause you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about makings mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-ska
29、ting competition. But, infect the listeners are not looking for a period performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speakers ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or he can actually increase a speakers attractiveness by making him more human.As you work
30、on your speech, dont worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.72. The underlined part and the first paragraph means that no one will _ A. be smarter than you B. notice your mistakesC. do better than you D. know what you are t
31、alking about73. You dont remember obvious mistakes in a speech because_A. your attention is on the content B. you dont fully understand the speechC. you dont know what the speaker plans to sayD. you find the way of speech-making more important74. It can be inferred from the passage that_A. giving a
32、speech is like giving a performanceB. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be badC. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is madeD. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be75. What would be the best title for the passage?A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker B.
33、 How to Make a Perfect SpeechC. Don I Expect a Perfect Speech D. Dont Expect Mistakes in a Speech5Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open peoples mind to another culture or race.People in many places are dig
34、ging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand th
35、emselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.“ Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “ Cinderella(灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture
36、of the world.”Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they dont like
37、 the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “ there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-wor
38、ker relationship, she says.Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says, “ What I
39、do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybodys story.”52. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2? A. They share the same way of storytelling. B.
40、 They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures. C. They learn their stories from the American natives. D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.53. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _. A. start a new life B. settle down in another place C. d
41、irect films D. become good actors54. Pugh has practised storytelling with _ groups of people. A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 555. What is the main idea of the text? A. Storytelling can influence the way people think. B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business. C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.阅读理解文化类31答案 57.A 58.D 59.C 60.A2答案 60.D 61.A 62.C 63.C3答案 72.C 73.B 74.D 75.B4答案 72.B 73.A 74.B 75.C5. 答案 52.D 53.A 54.B 55.D
