人教新目标高中英语选修六课后阅读训练 四 Unit 1 Period 4 Word版含答案Word格式.docx

1、文章对现代社会的工匠的手艺有没有消亡这一问题进行了讨论。最后, 作者认为工匠的手艺不但没消亡, 反而增强了。1. What does the underlined word “they” （Paragraph 2）refer to? A. Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways. B. Carpenters who have college degrees. C. People who think highly of carpenters of old days. D. People who think that modern material is

2、of low quality. 【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第二段最后一句“毫无疑问, 这些家被建得很好, 但是这些人所做的是把用在房屋上的材料的质量与他们精湛的手艺结合起来了。”这说明有此观点的人是赞扬古代工匠的人。2. Compared with the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are_. A. more successful B. more learnedC. more imaginative D. more hardworking【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句及第四段可知, 现代的工匠比古代的工匠更有学问。3.

3、 What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?A. People in the past preferred to use oak to build stairways. B. It is now expensive to employ a carpenter. C. Modern houses last as long as the old one. D. Good carpenters still exist in modern times. 【解析】选D。段落大意题。根据第三段第一句可知, 如果人们愿意付钱, 现代的工匠也能建造出和那些老房子

4、持续得一样长久的房子。4. What would be the best title for the text?A. Is Craft Dead?B. Craft, Back to Life?C. History of CraftsmanshipD. Carpenters Today and Yesterday【解析】选A。标题归纳题。根据第一段可知, 现代多数人认为随着科技的发展, 工匠的手艺不复存在了。下文就此问题展开讨论。经过分析, 作者认为现代工匠的手艺没有消亡, 而是更先进了。故用A作标题更能吸引读者。其余三项偏离了中心或是平淡无奇。BA few years ago, a compa

5、ny called Space Marketing came up with a plan to send a mile-long advertisement into space. To advertising agencies（机构）, it would have been “a dream come true”. However, advertising standards agencies finally decided not to allow Space Marketing to go ahead with their plans and they were forced to g

6、ive them up. Space may indeed be the final place for advertisers, because on Earth we are already surrounded by advertising wherever we are and whatever we are doing. Apart from the obvious adverts that we see every day on TV, and in newspapers and magazines, there is a whole “other world” of advert

7、ising messages for our attention. There are ads that we see on the side of the bus we catch to work, for example. And what about the logos（商标）we see on the clothing of the people we walk past in the streets?Most of the time, we are probably not even aware of（意识到的）these less obvious advertising metho

8、ds, but that doesnt mean that they dont work. Take “product placement” for example. You are in a cinema, watching the latest Hollywood movie. Look carefully at the make of the car your favorite actor is driving. And what about his watch? Can you see what brand it is? Chances are, you can, and the co

9、mpany that owns the brand is likely to have paid thousands for it to appear in the film. So, whether Space Marketing finally succeeds in sending ads into space or not is perhaps less important than it might seem. This would not change a thing. Our everyday lives are already strongly influenced by ad

10、vertising whether we realize it or not. 【语篇概述】我们的生活中出现了大量的广告, 本文介绍了一家叫Space Marketing的公司提出把一个一英里长的广告送到太空的想法。5. What happened to the plan of sending an ad into space?A. It came to nothing. B. It was a dream come true. C. It had to wait a few years before it was carried out. D. It was supported by the

11、 advertising standards agencies. 根据第一段最后一句中they were forced to give them up. （他们被迫放弃。）可知这个计划没有被实施。6. How does the author explain the “other world” of advertising messages?A. By showing research findings. B. By explaining research findings. C. By giving instructions. D. By using examples. 根据下文中There

12、are ads that we see on the side of the bus we catch to work, for example. And what about the logos we see on the clothing of the people we walk past in the streets? 可看出作者是通过举例子来解释“other world”。7. As a form of advertising, product placement_. A. costs a littleB. doesnt workC. is less obvious than TV

13、adsD. mainly appears in Hollywood movies推理判断题。根据文章第三段中Most of the time, we are probably not even aware of these less obvious advertising methods, but that doesnt mean that they dont work. Take “product placement” for example. 可知“product placement”是不太明显的广告。8. What does the author suggest at the end o

14、f the text?A. We live in a world of advertising. B. Weve changed a lot because of advertising. C. Space Marketing leads in the advertising industry. D. Space ads will mark the beginning of a new world. 根据文章最后一句Our everyday lives are already strongly influenced by advertising whether we realize it or

15、 not. 无论我们意识到与否, 我们的日常生活已经被广告深深地影响到了。故作者认为我们生活在一个充满广告的世界。. 完形填空The name of the1artist Picasso is very famous in the West. Today Picasso2“art”. Picasso started off with various styles of painting until he invented “Cubism（立体派）”. Picassos father was also a painter, a Professor of Art at the local scho

16、ol of fine arts（美术）. He taught his son how to draw figures and how to paint3oils and took him to some of the schools of art that he himself4at. Although he was Spanish, Picasso spent much of his life in Paris and never took part in5the Spanish Civil War, World Waror World War. Picassos6life was very

17、 unconventional（非传统的）. He had four children7three different women. In 1961, however, he married and stayed with Jacqueline Roque8the end of his life in 1973. Picasso produced paintings of acrobats（杂技演员）at the beginning of his9and moved into a different style when he started painting pictures of arti

18、sts. 10he developed his works into the famous style which is known as“Cubism”. He also created11and wrote poetry. Picasso produced12paintings than anyone else ever has: 13, 500 paintings, 100, 000 prints and 34, 000 book illustrations. He worked in many different mediums（手段）: oils, watercolors, char

19、coal and pencil. His paintings in the Cubist style started a new movement in art in the1320th century. Picasso14this style of painting with a colleague, Georges Braque in 1909. They painted objects by15them into small pieces and then viewed and painted them from several angles at once. 16used brown

20、colors for the paintings. The Cubism Movement started with Picasso and Braque in Montmartre, Paris, and17rapidly among the artists. It began to develop into a second phase（阶段）, in which artists added18objects to the painting in various materials, such as cloth or newspapers. In the 1950s Picassos wo

21、rks went through more changes when he started to look at the grand masters of art, like Velasquez. In his 80s and 90s he began to paint a mixture of many styles19he kept changing. Only after his death did people fully20his great achievements and in 1999 one of his paintings sold for $51 million. 【语篇

22、概述】本文主要介绍了伟大艺术家毕加索的生活及其作品风格等。1. A. FrenchB. EnglishC. SpanishD. German词汇复现题。从第二段的Although he was Spanish, 可看出毕加索是西班牙人。2. A. is B. meansC. learns D. makes逻辑推理题。从“art”的引号可看出此处是比喻意义, “今天, 毕加索意味着艺术”, 说明毕加索成了艺术的化身。3. A. with B. on C. from D. in习语搭配题。根据动词paint和oils看出此处表达的是“怎样用油彩绘画”, oil加s, 表示绘画中使用的油彩。in表示

23、用某种材料绘画、涂抹等。4. A. played B. studiedC. lived D. taught上句说毕加索的父亲是当地一所美术学校的教授, 故常带儿子去他教学的学校学习画画。5. A. among B. eitherC. between D. beyond空白处后有三个事物, 很容易选A项, among后的宾语应该是复数形式; between和and连用; beyond表示“在之外”; 根据or, 此处选B项, 构成“either. . . or. . . ”, 表示“或者或者”。6. A. real B. old C. public D. private从下文的“He had f

24、our children_three different women. ”看出此处是私生活, private“私人的, 私有的”。7. A. by B. in C. on D. about根据different可以看出, 他的四个孩子是由三个不同的女人所生的, 此处by表示由某人所生。8. A. until B. at C. as D. by背景常识题。毕加索和Jacqueline Roque待在一起直到毕加索生命的结束。until表示某个动作持续到某个时间。9. A. life B. careerC. paintings D. school从“moved into a different s

25、tyle”看出此处指他绘画生涯的开始。10. A. Accidentally B. FranklyC. Eventually D. Fortunately词语辨析题。在这一段讲述了三个时间段, 一是at the beginning; 二是when he started; 三是此空白处。从“he developed his works into the famous style which is known asCubism”看出这是顶峰时期, 应该填入“最后”之意。A项“偶然地”; B项“坦率地”; D项“幸运地”。11. A. sculptures B. telephonesC. pictures D. poems【