（课程标准卷地区专用）2013高英语二轮复习 专题限时训练(三十二) 文化教育型阅读理解配套作业(二)（解析版）

专题限时训练专题限时训练 三十二三十二 文化教育型阅读理解文化教育型阅读理解 二二 限时 25 分钟 一 Confidence is probably one of the most noticeable traits 品质 in the Americans They show confidence in the way they talk the way they smile the way they dress and the way they walk Living and competing with all these confident American students I find it extremely important to be confident as an international student and instructor As a student being confident means you should never hesitate to raise your hand whenever a question or a point comes to your mind Don t mind if it sounds simple or silly Otherwise you will never get a chance to speak in class at all What s worse the professors may think you are not prepared for the discussion or you do not have your own opinion on the issue this is the last comment any graduate would like to receive Being confident for me as a foreign instructor means calmly asking the student to repeat what he or she has said if I did not get it Pretending to understand what you actually did not may just bring yourself embarrassment or even disgrace But the time I most need to be confident is when my students come to my office and bargain about the grades I have given for their Speeches The course I m teaching here is public speaking Modesty is a trait highly valued in China but it won t be of much help here if you want to survive and succeed in a good American graduate program 1 To compete with American students it s very important to A be quite confident B be polite and friendly C have more discussions with them D understand what they think about 2 A professor will have the worst opinion of a student who A gives a silly or simple answer B tries to seize any chance to speak in class C shows no interest in the course D is considered to have no opinion of his own 3 The author is most likely to feel embarrassed if A he asks a student to repeat what he has said B the students bargain with him C he pretends to know what he doesn t D he has to give a speech 4 We learn from the second paragraph that A we should also remain modest in America B modesty doesn t help in America C the Americans also like modest people D modesty can help you through an American graduate program 5 The passage is mainly developed by A providing examples B making comparisons C giving different figures D telling personal experiences 二 Disease poverty hate love Charles Dickens stories opened his readers eyes to the most important themes of his age Two hundred years on his stories still speak volumes across the world proving that Dickens legacy 遗产 was far greater than just great literature February 7 marks the 200th anniversary of the writer s birthday To mark this date BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world Let s take a look at two of them A A WhiteWhite ChristmasChristmas Dickens is described as the man who invented Christmas not the religious festival but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive season today In the early 19th century Christmas was barely worth mentioning according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Day unthinkable in the West nowadays when everyone but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off Many people believe that Dickens popular descriptions of the festive period became a blueprint for generations to come In his classic novel A Christmas Carol he not only put forward the idea of snow at Christmas but also painted a picture of glowing warmth home enjoyments affections and hopes In his biography of Dickens Peter Ackroyd wrote Dickens can be said to have almost single handedly created the modern idea of Christmas Dickensian Dickensian povertypoverty Dickens was one of the first to take an honest look at the underclass and the poor of Victorian London He helped popularize the term red tape to describe situations where people in power use needless amounts of bureaucracy 官僚作风 in a way that particularly hurts the weaker and poorer members of society Dickensian has now become a powerful word for describing an unacceptable level of poverty In 2009 when the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK wanted to talk about poverty in some areas of Britain she did not use words like terrible or horrific but rather described it as life mirroring the times of Dickens 1 The article is mainly about A a brief introduction to Charles Dickens B Charles Dickens impact on the world C the characters in Charles Dickens stories D Charles Dickens achievements in literature 2 Why is Dickens called the man who invented Christmas A Because he created both religious and cultural festival B Because his novels have something to do with Christmas C Because one of his novels helped to shape Christmas celebrations D Because he was the first man to have proposed celebrating Christmas 3 We can learn from the passage that A Charles Dickens novels reflect the true life at his age B Dickensian is widely used to describe the Christmas C every person can take three days off for Christmas D the theme of Charles Dickens stories is about poverty 4 According to the passage the phrase red tape refers to A rules or regulations that are required to finish a task B a situation where poor members of society are hurt C conflict between people in power and weaker people D pointlessly time consuming official procedures 三 Does knowledge of a writer s private life help to explain his works It s an age old question but it s also one in which interest is aroused 激起 again by Antonia Fraser s book about her life with Harold Pinter Must You Go The book is obviously a personal account rather than a study of the plays All the same I d argue it sends a good deal of light on Pinter the dramatist 剧作家 I start from the belief that all information about a writer is helpful In fact one of the pleasures of writing Pinter s biography was discovering that nearly all his plays were started by some strong personal memory This got me into trouble with some critics I remember Martin Esslin a great Pinter scholar arguing that I had reduced the value of Pinter s Betrayal by linking it to the dramatist s seven year long love affair with Joan Bakewell But as I saw it that was simply the play s origin All I had done I hoped was to remind people that Pinter was a writer who would make use of his own life experience That point can also be seen from Antonia s book There s an interesting account of a dinner with Tom Stoppard where Pinter says that he doesn t plan his characters lives and then asks his fellow dramatist Don t you find they take you over sometimes to which Stoppard firmly replies No That says a lot One reason why The Homecoming is a great play is that Pinter allows his characters almost unconsciously to take over Despite Stoppard s many strengths he tends to keep his characters under a much tighter control Again there s an eye opening passage in Antonia s book where she recalls a moment in 1983 when Pinter refers back to his relationship with his former wife Vivien While she was alive if you think about it so much of my work was about unhappy frozen married relationships In short as Stoppard once wrote information in itself about anything is light And modern biography particularly in the hands of masters has been helpful to literature by opening writers lives to public eyes For that reason among many others I welcome Antonia Fraser s book 1 What is TRUE about Antonia Fraser s book A It is well received by the public B It carries Antonia s views about biography C It is helpful to the study of Pinter s works D It includes serious studies of Pinter s works 2 What do the author of this article and Martin Esslin disagree on A The literary value of Pinter s Betrayal B The literary value of the accounts of Pinter s life C The truthfulness of the contents of Antonia s book D The truthfulness of Pinter s love affair with Joan Bakewell 3 What can we infer about Pinter and Stoppard A They treat their characters in different ways B Stoppard has more strengths than Pinter C They often have dinners together D They often argue with each other 4 This article is probably A a feature story B a book review C a news report D a biography 专题限时训练 三十二 一 解题导语 文章向我们讲述了在和自信心很强的美国学生一块学习中自信心以及发表 主见的重要性 1 A 细节理解题 由第一段的 Living and competing with all these confident American students I find it extremely important to be confident 可以看出 为 了和这些信心很足的美国学生竞争 信心是很重要的 2 D 细节理解题 由第一段的 What s worse the professors may think you are not prepared for the discussion or you do not have your own opinion on the issue 可以看出 教授们对没有自己观点的学生评价最差 3 C 细节理解题 题干关键词 feel embarrassed 对应原文的 bring yourself embarrassment 由最后一段的 Pretending to understand what you actually did not may just bring yourself embarrassment 可知答案 4 B 细节理解题 由该段的 Modesty is a trait highly valued in China but it won t be of much help here 可以看出 谦逊在美国根本就没有多大的帮助 5 D 结构推断题