1、 阅读下列四篇短文,从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。 For five days,Edmonton's Downtown Park is transformed into one huge stage where artists are able to share their talents,and where people are able to celebrate and enjoy themselves.Since its beginning in 1980,the Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been commemora
2、ting (纪念) the true feeling of what folk music is all about and that's the traditional togetherness(友爱)that is felt when people gather to share stories and feelings through song. This year will be the sixth year when volunteer Riedel will be offering up her time to the festival.“People coming off a
3、busy spring and summer have a moment of relaxation.”Riedel said.“It's really easy to relax,and it's great seeing family and friends have fun together.”These families and friends come from all different kinds of musical tastes.People who take pleasure in Blues are there,so are people who love Bluegra
4、ss.This festival does its best to develop everyone's musical interests. With so many years of experience,the festival has become a welloiled machine,and does whatever it can to make attendees feel as comfortable as possible.There are free water stations throughout the venue (举办地) for people to fil
5、l up their travel cups.When people buy food,reusable dishes are given a $2 plate fee,but that is returned when the plate is brought back. The festival has completely sold out of tickets, and in record time.But with big names such as Van Morrison and Jakob Dylan, it's easy to see how that was going
6、to happen.There is no parking area during the festival, so using the Park & Ride system or Edmonton Transit is highly recommended.A bike lockup area is provided and will be available Thursday until Sunday one hour before the gates open until 45 minutes after the gates close. The Edmonton Folk Musi
7、c Festival begins on Wednesday, Aug.4 with Van Morrison playing the special donation fund (基金)concert, and will finish up on Sunday, Aug.8. 本文主要叙述为了让人们了解民间音乐的真正意义而举办的一个节日——the Edmonton Folk Music Festival。 1.The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is held mainly to______. A.gather people with different
8、musical tastes B.remind people of the real sense of folk music C.exhibit the good voices of great talents in folk music D.collect old stories of folk music 答案:B。细节理解题。由本文的第一段信息“...the Edmonton Music Festival has been commemorating the true feeling of what folk music is all about...”可知B项正确。 2.Wh
9、ich of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A.Riedel has volunteered for the festival for at least 5 years. B.It's hard for people to appreciate Blues. C.It costs people a little to fill up their cups from water stations. D.People have to pay ﹩2 for a plate of food. 答案:A。推理推断题。由其次段第一
10、句话“This year will be the sixth year when volunteer Riedel will be offering up her time to the festival”.可推知Riedel至少做志愿者五年了,故A项正确。 3.We can learn from the passage that______. A.people can get tickets easily for the festival B.the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is well organized C.driving one's own
11、car to the festival is highly recommended D.bikes are available at the festival from Wednesday to Sunday 答案:B。推理推断题。由第三段“With so many years of experience,the festival has become a welloiled machine...”可知该节日组织得井井有条,故B项正确。 4.What would be the best title for this passage? A.Folk Music of Blues B.O
12、ne Festival for All C.Festival for Family Gathering D.Edmonton's Downtown Park 答案:B。主旨大意题。通读全文可知。文章主要叙述the Edmonton Folk Music Festival这一个节日,故B项最佳。 科普学问型阅读理解 We have met the enemy, and he is ours.We bought him at a pet shop.When monkeypox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest,
13、 suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it’s hard not to wonder if the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings.“Most of the infections (感染) we think of as human infections started in other animals,” says Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public He
14、alth Preparedness at Columbia University. It’s not just that we’re going to where the animals are; we’re also bringing them closer to us.Popular foreign pets have brought a whole new disease to this country.A strange illness killed Isaksen’s pets, and she now thinks that keeping foreign pets is a
15、 bad idea.“I don’t think it’s fair to have them as pets when we have such a limited knowledge of them,” says Isaksen. “Laws allowing these animals to be brought in from deep forest areas without strict control need changing,” says Peter Schantz.Monkeypox may be the_wakeup_call.Researchers believe
16、 infected animals may infect their owners.We know very little about these new diseases.A new bug (病毒) may be kind at first.But it may develop into something harmful.Monkeypox doesn’t look a major infectious disease.But it is not impossible to pass the disease from person to person. ( )1.We lea
17、rn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold at the shop may ________. A.come from Columbia B.prevent us from being infected C.enjoy being with children D.suffer from monkeypox ( )2.Why did Isaksen advise people not to have foreign pets? A.They attack human beings. B.We need to study native a
18、nimals. C.They can’t live out of the rain forest. D.We do not know much about them yet. ( )3.What does the phrase “the wakeup call” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A.a new disease B.a clear warning C.a dangerous animal D.a morning call ( )4.The text suggests that in the future we __
19、 A.may have to fight against more new diseases B.may easily get infected by diseases from dogs C.should not be allowed to have pets D.should stop buying pets from Africa ( )5.The last paragraph means ________. A.we should have laws to stop having pets at home B.wild animals shouldn’
20、t be adopted as pets C.laws should be passed to avoid pets’ diseases spreading D.people with pets should be stayed at home 【解析】饲养宠物可能被传播疾病。猴痘本是非洲雨林中的一种疾病,现在突然毁灭在美国西部的孩子们身上。大多数人们认为只有人类才会感染的疾病其实就是来自动物。国家要制定严格的法律,以防止动物把疾病传播给人类。 1.D 依据We have met the enemy, and he is ours. We bought him at a pet
21、 shop. When monkeypox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest, suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it’s hard not to wonder if the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings.可推断,从宠物商店购买的动物身上携带疾病。 2.D 依据A strange illness killed Isaksen’s pet
22、s, and she now thinks that keeping foreign pets is a bad idea.“I don’t think it’s fair to have them as pets when we have such a limited knowledge of them,”可推断。 3.B 依据上文,猴痘是一种从非洲的动物身上传播到人类身上的疾病,紧接着作者说这种没有经过严格把握的法律需要转变。最终又以猴痘为例,由此可推断“the wakeup call”表示“一种警示”。 4.A 依据We know very little about the
23、se new diseases. A new bug (病毒) may be kind at first. But it may develop into something harmful.可知新的病毒会转化成有害的东西,最终导致人与人的传播,因此我们必需与新的疾病作斗争。 5.C 最终一段大意:我们必需转变不检疫而引进野生动物的规定,这样才能避开疾病的传播。 阅读理解。 Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additional praise
24、the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism. I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.H.B.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example.These early stories dealt directly with slavery.With
25、 minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story. Again and again,in the postwar years,Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.C
26、onsider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain's novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn,Twain's most widely read tale.Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote t
27、hat those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim,the escaped slave,and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim,for which the novel is often severely criticized,never a
28、ppears in it.) But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J.Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognit
29、ion that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual:Jim, the father and the man.” There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.W
30、ritten at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites,especially in intelligence,Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and,for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master's bab
31、y by his wife.The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class.The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave. The point was difficult to miss:nurture(培育),
32、not nature,was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech,for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims. Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy,for ex
33、ample,by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.
34、His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not. Was Twain a racist?Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of th
35、e present,we will find nothing but error.Lincoln,who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him.And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier,and inventor of Jim,may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective con
36、science than any other novelist in the past century. 65.How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's? A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism. B.Twain's attack on racism was much less open. C.Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots. D.Twain was openly concerned with racism. 66.R
37、ecent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ________. A.target readers at the bottom B.anti-slavery attitude C.rather impolite language D.frequent use of “nigger” 67.What best proves Twain's anti-slavery stand according to the author? A.Jim's search for his family
38、was described in detail. B.The slave's voice was first heard in American novels. C.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture. D.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. 68.The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that ________. A.slaves were forced to giv
39、e up their babies to their masters B.slaves' babies could pick up slave-holders' way of speaking C.blacks' social position was shaped by how they were brought up D.blacks were born with certain features of prejudice 69.What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to? A.The attacks.
40、 B.Slavery and prejudice. C.White men. D.The shows. 70.What does the author mainly argue for? A.Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. B.Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. C.Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. D.Twain'
41、s works should be read from a historical point of view. 【要点综述】 本篇为说明文,谈到马克·吐温的小说是否对奴隶制和偏见进行了抵制,以及它受到不同人士的批判状况。 65.B 推理推断题。由其次段的“Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.”可知,马克·吐温把对奴隶制和偏见的攻击融在故事中,隐晦地表达。而早期小说是直接攻击方式(dealt di
42、rectly with slavery),因此B项说他的小说对种族主义制度的攻击格外不明显是恰当的。A项文章没有提及;C项与题干无关,答非所问;D项文章没有提及。 66.D 推理推断题。依据关键词Adventures of Huckleberry Finn定位到第三段。由“More recently the book has been attacked because of …many occurences of the word nigger.”可知答案。A项中的target readers错误,文章没有说到;B项不符合文意;C项中的impolite language范围过广,文章只是说到
43、批判者对nigger一词的毁灭感到不满。 67.C 细节理解题。由第四段的末句“…the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities…”可知答案。A项中的in detail文章没有提及;B项中的The slave's voice与文章的the character of Jim不全都;D项文章没有提及。 68.C 推理推断题。由第六段可知,举这个例子是为了说明奴隶的社会地位是由生活环境打算的,而不是人的自然本性。 69.D 词义猜想题。
44、由画线词所在句的前面一句可知:没有理由认为马克·吐温把这些表演当作表现现实,后句紧接着解释:马克·吐温对奴隶制和偏见的不断攻击说明白他敏锐的意识,而这些是shows所没有表达出来的,可见they应当就是指代shows。 70.A 作者意图题。末段首先提出一个疑问,然后通过论据否定了这个观点,最终总结了一下自己的观点:And Twain…may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice …than any other novelist in the past century,可见作者要反对的是末段首句所表达的疑问,只有A项符合,其他各项只是对具体例子的说明。






