（湖北專用）2015屆高考英語(yǔ)二輪復(fù)習(xí) 專題限時(shí)檢測(cè)（十四）閱讀理解之文化類

專題限時(shí)檢測(cè)(十四)　閱讀理解之文化類(共3篇，限時(shí)24分鐘)A(2014·華師一附中適應(yīng)性測(cè)試)English songs have been very popular for people around the world for many decades.Singers, from Elvis Presley to Ricky Martin, from the Beatles to Eminen and from Natalie Cole to Britney Spears, have all been sitting in everyone’s heart, even for people who don’t speak English. But will you have better English skills if you listen to English songs for a long time?From my experiences, some people listen to English songs for 20－30 years but still haven’t accomplished any good English skills. Some people choose English songs to be the “main learning approach”， but most of them have failed.Listening to English songs does not help you to speak English fluently. It does help you gain some vocabularies. Most of them are unusual ones that you don’t use in your everyday life. You won’t learn the sentence “It is a complicate project. We really need to meet the deadline.” in any English songs.People like using English songs to practice English skills because it’s easy and enjoyable.They think that sitting in the car listening to English songs day by day can improve their English skills. It is not that actually.You will not improve your listening skills because normal people don’t speak with melody (樂調(diào)). People don’t talk like Eminen’s songs (well, actually, some teenagers do). You can’t get yourself familiar with English pronunciation or accent just from listening to English songs. The words that they pronounce in the songs are not the words that you will hear in your everyday life.It often even confuses you more how English is pronounced.I would fully encourage you to watch English movies, listen to radio news or other normal talks, but not music. Of course, you can consume it for fun but not the aim to improve your English skills.1．What’s the text mainly about?A．How English songs help people practice English skills.B．Who has made English songs popular all over the world.C．Why people won’t improve their English by listening to English songs.D．Where people can find good English songs to practise their English skills.2．English songs are helpful for English learners if they want to ________.A．speak English fluentlyB．enlarge their vocabulariesC．improve their listening skillsD．learn to express themselves in daily life3．Which of the following won’t probably appear in English songs?A．Country road, take me home.B．Every night I see you, I feel you.C．It’s not a big big thing if you leave me.D．We need to meet the deadline though it’s tough.4．We can learn from the text that ________.A．world-famous singers have done a lot to help people learn EnglishB．watching English movies or listening to radio news can be a great helpC．English songs get people familiar with English pronunciation or accentD．most people who enjoy English songs in their car speak English very wellB(2014·湖北八校聯(lián)考)Many people take it for granted that black is a color of bad things while white should always mean something good. This may be because, in their opinion, black is related to darkness and white to purity. However, that is not always the case. Did you know that the same one color may mean differently in different places of the world?In the English-speaking world, black is the color of mourning. People wear black clothes at the funeral. Red is concerned with danger or bloodshed (流血)．Yellow is the word for fear. If you are afraid, you are yellow. Yet none of these sayings is true outside the English-speaking world. In China and Korea white is the color of mourning. In Russia, China and some other countries, red stands for beauty, life and excellence. In Italy and Germany, you are yellow with anger, not with fear.Even within the English-speaking area it is not difficult to find color contradictions (矛盾). A red cap in the United States is a porter in a railway station. In Britain, however, a red cap is a military policeman. Both names are logical because both men wear red caps. Similarly, the British term for an American white collar worker is sometimes called a black-coated worker. One does not have to cross an area to find color differences. Would you rather be red-blooded or a blue-blooded? If we go back to the origin, we find that both terms are logical as both names suggest. The expression “blue blood” comes from Spain, where some noble families proudly said that they had “blue blood”. Actually they meant that they had no Moorish or Jewish blood. But then why “blue” blood? Because they were fair-skinned, and it is only natural that their blood vessels (血管) stood out appearing blue.5．Yellow is concerned with anger in ________.A．Russia　　　　　　　　　 　B．BritainC．Germany D．China6．The two meanings of the term “red cap” form a difference in ________.A．pronunciation B．climateC．logical relationship D．custom7．Both Britain and America would probably agree that ________.A．black is the color of mourningB．a(chǎn) black-coated worker is employed in an officeC．red stands for beauty and excellenceD．a(chǎn) red cap is a porter in a station8．The best title for this passage is “________”．A．The Origin of Blue BloodB．The Development of the Symbolic Use of ColorsC．Colors That Carry Bad MeaningsD．The Meaning Concerned with Certain ColorsC(2014·黃石調(diào)研)An Australian film company has halted the preproduction of its upcoming film Deep Water because of eerie similarities the plot has to the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.MH370 disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8.No confirmed sighting of the plane has been made since.The action horror film, from Arclight Films, tells the story of a flight bound for China that mysteriously crashes in a remote stretch of ocean.The survivors then have to fight against hungry sharks as the plane is starting to sink.“Out of sensitivity to the Malaysia flight situation，we’ve decided to put it on pause for now，”Arclight Films managing director Gary Hamilton told the Hollywood reporter Monday.The news comes as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stated at a press conference that new analysis suggested the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean，and that all those on board are now dead.The eerily similar film plot had been promoted with the tagline (宣傳詞)：“Survivors of a plane crash face terror beyond imagination as the plane is starting to sink and soon discover they are surrounded by the deadliest natural born killers on earth.”It’s not the first time Alister Grierson, the film’s director, has had a preference for film subjects of real-life disasters.Two weeks before the 2011 release of his best known film Sanctum, about an underwater cave diving expedition, Australia was hit by disastrous floods.Grierson began preproduction on Deep Water at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland weeks before the real-life incident of MH370.The Queensland-based filmmaker said he couldn’t deny the strange timing between his project and MH370.Despite saying it was “mysterious” , he insists that his film is vastly different.“In simple terms, Deep Water is about an accident that happens on an airplane which goes down in the ocean, and the survivors trying to stay alive afterwards.”“It’s more complicated as there are villains (反面角色) and sharks, but it’s a fun adventure with thrills and scares. ”It is unclear when the preproduction will restart, but it will be at least two years before the film makes it to cinemas.9．Why has the preproduction of Deep Water been stopped?A．Because MH370 mysteriously disappeared after take-off on March 8.B．Because the plot of the film is similar to the real-life incident of MH370.C．Because Malaysian Prime Minister was very sensitive at a press conference.D．Because the film won’t make it to cinemas until two years later.10．Which of the following statements about Alister Grierson is TRUE?A．He is a film director on the missing flight MH370.B．He is interested in film subjects of real-life disasters.C．He is well-known for his best film Deep Water.D．He worked with Arclight Films to make Sanctum.11．The underlined word “eerie” in the first paragraph means “________”．A．strange B．funnyC．deadly D．sensitive12．Where will you most probably read this article?A．In a popular science magazine.B．In Queensland Financial Daily.C．In an entertainment special column.D．In a disaster report of MH370.答 案語(yǔ)篇解讀：本文是一篇議論文。

作者認(rèn)為“通過聽英語(yǔ)歌曲來提高英語(yǔ)技能”這一做法是不可行的文中闡述了具體原因，并給出了建議——看電影或聽新聞廣播會(huì)幫助提高英語(yǔ)技能1．選C　主旨大意題通過對(duì)全文的理解可知，作者認(rèn)為“通過聽英語(yǔ)歌曲來提高英語(yǔ)技能”的做法是不可行的，文中具體論述了這個(gè)做法不可行的原因2．選B　細(xì)節(jié)理解題根據(jù)第三段第一、二句可知，聽英語(yǔ)歌曲不會(huì)幫助你流利地說英語(yǔ)，但是它確實(shí)可以幫助你增加詞匯量3．選D　細(xì)節(jié)理解題根據(jù)第三段最后一句可知，你不會(huì)在任何英語(yǔ)歌曲中學(xué)習(xí)到類似“這是一個(gè)復(fù)雜的項(xiàng)目我們真的需要在最后期限之前完成”這樣的句子4．選B　推理判斷題根據(jù)最后一段第一句可知，作者十分鼓勵(lì)人們通過看英語(yǔ)電影、聽廣播新聞或其他正常的對(duì)話來練習(xí)英語(yǔ)口語(yǔ)而不是聽音樂5．選C　細(xì)節(jié)理解題根據(jù)第二段最后一句“In Italy and Germany，you are yellow with anger，not with fear.”可知，答案選C6．選D　推理判斷題根據(jù)第二段可知，在美國(guó)“red cap”是火車站搬運(yùn)工的標(biāo)志，而在英國(guó)則是憲兵的標(biāo)志，這屬于兩國(guó)文化習(xí)慣的不同由此可知，答案選D7．選A　細(xì)節(jié)理解題根據(jù)文章第二段第一句“In the English-speaking world，black is the color of mourning.”可知，在說英語(yǔ)的國(guó)家中，黑色被認(rèn)為是代表哀悼的顏色。

故A項(xiàng)正確8．選D　標(biāo)題概括題文章主要介紹了不同國(guó)家、不同文化中顏色所代表的意義也不同語(yǔ)篇解讀：澳大利亞一家電影公司已經(jīng)緊急叫停了一部名為《深水》(Deep Water)的驚悚動(dòng)作電影的拍攝，因?yàn)橛捌锍霈F(xiàn)了與馬航MH370事件相似的劇情9．選B　細(xì)節(jié)理解題根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容可知，電影公司已經(jīng)緊急叫停電影的拍攝，因?yàn)橛捌锍霈F(xiàn)了與馬航MH370事件離奇相似的劇情故B項(xiàng)正確10．選B　正誤判斷題根據(jù)第七段第一句“It’s not the first time Alister Grierson, the film’s director, has had a preference for film subjects of real-life disasters.”可推知，導(dǎo)演對(duì)于災(zāi)難片很感興趣故B項(xiàng)正確A、D兩項(xiàng)文章均未提及C項(xiàng)與第七段中的“his best known film Sanctum”不一致，可排除11．選A　詞義猜測(cè)題已開拍的電影情節(jié)和現(xiàn)實(shí)驚人相似，這件事本身就很離奇(strange) funny意為“有趣的”；deadly意為“致命的”；sensitive意為“敏感的”故A項(xiàng)正確。

12．選C　推理判斷題A項(xiàng)意為“大眾科學(xué)雜志”；B項(xiàng)意為《昆士蘭金融日?qǐng)?bào)》；C項(xiàng)意為“娛樂特別板塊”；D項(xiàng)意為“馬航MH370的災(zāi)難報(bào)告”文章主要談?wù)摫唤型５碾娪?，和娛樂有關(guān)故C項(xiàng)正確。