高中英语阅读专题能力训练含答案2
专题能力训练十一阅读理解(二)
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A
(2017·天津红桥区二模,B)
Long ago,poems were recited out loud instead of being written down.Back when the Greeks first started the Olympics,they held poetry contests as well as athletic competitions.
Now,poetry competitions have been revived.This year 120,000 high school students competed in the first Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest,performing poems from memory for $100,000 in prizes.
The first competitions were held in classrooms.The winners went on to schoolwide contests,and then they competed in city and state competitions,and then the 50 state cham
pions,along with the District of Columbia champion,came to Washington,D.C.,last week for the last showdown(对决).After the 51 champions competed against one another,12 went on to the finals.Then the field was narrowed to five.The final five had one last chance to “perform” a poem.The overall champ,Jackson Hille,a high school senior from Ohio,won a $20,000 scholarship.
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from reading it on the page.
It’s not just a matter of saying the words in the right order.It’s the tone of voice,the pauses,the gestures,and the attitude of the person performing that bring the words to life.“Each time we hear somebody recite a poem,we understand again what we found fresh and interesting about it,”says National Public Radio broadcaster Scott Simon,master of ceremonies for the finals.Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener.
Not only do the people hearing poems have a new experience,memorizing and presentin
g poems helps the participants understand those poems in a new way.Another benefit of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn public-speaking skills that can help them for life.
【语篇导读】这是一篇记叙文。文章介绍了很久以前诗歌是大声背诵出来的,而不是写下来的,而现在诗歌比赛已经复活,重新受到青睐。
1.From the first paragraph,we can know .
A.the Greeks were the first to write poems
B.the Olympics used to start with poem reciting
C.poems were spread orally in the past
D.athletes were asked to recite poems before competing
答案:C
解析:推理判断题。由第一段内容可知,在很久以前诗歌是大声背诵出来的,而不是写下来的。故选C 项。
2.How many rounds of competitions did the champions take before they went to Washington,D.C.?
A.Three.
B.Four.
C.Five.
D.Six.
答案:B
解析:数字细节题。由第三段内容可知,在前往华盛顿参加决赛前,选手要进行competitions held in classrooms,schoolwide contests,city competitions,state competitions这四轮比赛,才最终可以参加在华盛顿举行的决赛。故选B项。
3.According to the passage,hearing a poem recited in a new voice can .
pushedA.bring a new life to listeners
B.help listeners find their interest
C.make listeners learn the words
D.offer something new to listeners
答案:D
解析:细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段,尤其是最后一句“Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener.”可知,听到一首诗歌用一种新的声音背诵出来会给听众带来新的感受。
4.One benefit the participants get from a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that they can .
A.become confident while speaking in public
B.write good poems themselves
C.change their attitudes towards life
D.make friends with many great poets
答案:A
解析:细节理解题。根据文章最后一段最后一句“Another benefit of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn public-speaking skills that can help them for life.”可知,A项正确。
5.What’s the best title for the passage?
A.Reciting poems improves your memory
B.R emembering a lot of poems is fun
C.Poets have a great time
D.Poetry rocks the microphone
答案:D
解析:主旨大意题。该文重点说明了背诵出来的诗歌及其益处,D项突出了主题,故选D项。
B
There is a very special wolf that lives in Africa.They are actually called,the African wild dogs,or painted dogs.
These animals live in open woodlands,or in the plains of Africa.Today,however,most of the animals can be found in eastern or southern Africa.These animals are beautiful.They have rounded ears instead of pointed like most dogs,and they have four toes on each of their four feet,also a unique characteristic because other dogs have five.Their fur is always different from each other.The fur is usually a combination of black,brown,red and white,and sometimes even yellow.No wonder they’re called the painted dogs.
The African wild dog is a very social animal.They live in groups and have numbers from five to about twenty.The members of a group are always very close to one another.They communicate in their own language or body language.When someone is very old or sick,the others will help,and they are willing to share the food with the elders and with those who are weak,which is what we should learn from.

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