第一节话题阅读人物传记介绍

1、第一节 话题阅读人物传记(介绍)5 年拓展训练【原题体验】 (2009阅读理解 B)Computrogrammer David Joarns 35,000 a year designing new computer games，yet he cannot find a bready to let him have a credit card()Instead，he has been told towait another two years，until he is 18.The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Livool，wherethe prob

2、lem of most young people of his age is finding a job.Davids firm releases(推出) twgames for the fast growing computer market eaonth.But Davids biggest headache is what to do with his money.Even though he earns a lot，hecannot drive a car，take out a mortgage(抵押)，et credit cards.David got his job with th

3、eLivool-based company four months ago，a year after leaving school with six O-levels andworking for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew Ihad already written some programs，”he said.David spends some of his money on records andclothes，and gives his mother 5

4、0 pounds ak.But most of his spare time is spent working.“Unfortunay，computing was not part of our studies at school，”he said.“But I had beenstudying it in books and magazines for four yearsy spare time.I knew what I wanted to do andnever considered staying on at school.Most peoplehis business are fa

5、irly young ，anyway.”David added：“I would like to earn a million and I sup sibility.You never know when the market might disappear.” 60In what way is David different from people of his age?He often goes out with friends.He lives with his mother.e early retirement(退休) is aCHe has a handsomee.DHe gradu

6、ated with six O-levels.C细节理解题。由第一、二段可知，他这个的孩子连找工作都很而他却是为没法处理这些钱而发愁，可知他的收入很丰厚。61What is one of the problemst David is facing now?He is too young to get a credit card.He has no time to learn driving.He has very little spare time.He will soon lose his job.A细节理解题。由第一段第一句和第二段第二句可知。62Why was David able to

7、 get the jobhe company?AHe had dell in all his exams.BHe had written some computrograms.CHe was good at playing computer games.DHe had learnt to use computers at school.B细节理解题。根据第二段倒数第三句可知 B 项正确。由最后一段第一句可知 D 项错误；由第二段第三句的“.leaving school with six O-levels.”可知 A 项错误；C 项文中没提及。63Why did David decide to

8、leave school and start working? AHe received lots of job offers.BHe was eager to help his mother.CHe losterest in school studies.DHe wanted to earn his own living.C细节理解题。由最后一段及第二段第三句可知，他不想再待在学校里，他知道应该做什么，故 C 项与此意吻合。【原题拓展训练】.完成这篇文章的文脉构架图.信息句与长难句分析1(61 题信息句)Computrogrammer David Joarns35,000 a year de

9、signing newcomputer games，yet he cannot find a bready to let him have a credit card.分析：句中 designing new computer games 是现在分词短语作方式状语，let sb.do sth.让某人做某事。翻译：电脑程序员通过设计新的电脑一年赚取 35_000 英镑，但他无法找到一家愿意给他办理一张。2(62 题信息句)“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some progra

10、ms，” he said.分析：句中 because 引导原因状语从句；had already written 是过去完成时态。翻译：“我得到这份工作，是因为公司管理者知道我已经编写过一些程序，”他说。3The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Livpeople of his age is finding a job.ool，where the problem of most young分析：本句where 引导非限定性定语从句，并在句中充当地点状语。翻译：16 岁的他为利物浦一家小公司工作，那里大多数他这个年纪的年轻人的难题就是找到一份工作。【精选

11、对应训练】(2013江苏阅读理解D)Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deservesadditional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literatureheyears before the Civil War.H.B

12、.Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is only the most famousexample.These early stories deaattacks on slavery and prejudiceirectly with slavery.With minor exceptions，Twain planted hiso talest were on the surface about something else entirely.Hedrew his readerso the argument by drawing themo the story.Again and

13、again，hetwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge ofrace.Consider the most controversial ，east today， of Twains novels， Adventures ofHuckerry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as HuckerryFinn，Twains most widely read tale.Once upon a time，people hated the

14、 book because it struckthem as rude.Twain himself wrotet those who banned the book considered the novel “trash andsuitable only for the slums(贫民窟)” More recently the book has been attacked because of thecharacter Jim，the escd slave，and many occurenof the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which th

15、e novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it.)But the attacks were and are sillyand miss the po.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jims search through the slave ses for the family from whom he has been forciblyparted is heroic.As JChadwick has poed out，the character of Jim was ain Americ

16、anfictiona recognitiont the slave had twoalities，“the voice of survival within a whiteslave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim，the father and the man.”There is muore.Twains mystery novel Puddnhead Wilson stood as a challenge to theral befs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written aim

17、e when the accepted wisdomheld Negroes to be inferior(的)to whites，espelly inelligence，Twains tale centered inpart around two babies switched at birslave gave birth to her masters baby and，for feartthe child should be sold South，switched him for the masters baby by his wife.The slaves light-skinned c

18、hild was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class.The masters wifes baby was taken for black and grew up with theattitudes and onations of the slave.The powas difficult to mifeatures of the black manurture(养育)，not nature，was the key to sol su

19、s.Thet provided the stuff of prejudicemanner of speech ， forexamplewere，to Twain，indicative of nothing otherits victims.n the conditioningt slavery forced onTwains ral tas not perfect.One is left uneasy，for exampy the lengthy passagein his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called “n

20、igger shows” in hisyouthmostly with white men performing in black-faceand his delight in getting his mother tolaugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.Hisfrequentacks on slavery and prejudiuggest his keen awarenesst they did not.Was Twain a racist？Ask

21、ing the questionhe 21st century is as wise as asking the same ofLincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing but error.Lincoln，who beved the black manthe inferior of the white，fought and won a war to

22、 free him.And Twain，raised in a slave se，briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to anger the nation over ral injusticeand awaken its collective consciencen any other novelisthe past century.65How do Twains novels on slavery differ from Stowes? ATwain was more willing to deal with r

23、acism.Twains attack on racism was much less open.Twains themes seemed to agree with plots.Twain was openly concerned with racism.B推理判断题。由第二段中的“With minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks ono talest were on the surface about something else entirely.”可知。slavery and prejudice66Recent criticism of A

24、dventures of Huckerry Finn arose partly from its.Areaders at the bottomBanti-slavery attitudeCrather impolianguageDfrequent use of “nigger”D细节理解题。由第三段“More recently the book has been attacked because of thecharacter Jim，the escd slave，and many occurenof the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which

25、 the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it.)”可知。67What best proves Twains anti-slavery stand according to the author?AJims search for his family was described in detail.BThe slaves voice washeard in American novels.CJim grew upo a man and a fatherhe white culture.DTwainCedt the slaves were lesselligent.细节理解题。由第四段末句“.the character of Jim was ain.the father and theman.”可知。68The story of two babies switched mainly indicatest.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their mastersslaves babies could pick up slave-holders way of speakingCblacks solition was shd by