学年高中英语Unit2Poems单元检测新人教版选修6.docx

1、学年高中英语Unit2Poems单元检测新人教版选修6第二单元检测(时间:90分钟满分:120分)第一部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共12小题;每小题分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。AToday well talk about we read a text,our eyes move across a page in short,quick recognize words usually when our eyes still fixate (注视).Each time they fixate,we see a group of i

2、s known as the recognition span (跨度) or the visual (视觉) length of time for which the eyes stop varies from person to also varies within any person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the addition,it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.Unfortunately,in t

3、he past,many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading,many exercises have been designed to train the eyes to see more words at one example,in some exercises,words are flashed on

4、to a screen for a tenth of a of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point,taking in the words on either word patterns are often formed in the shape of pyramids,so the reader takes in more and more words at each continuous these exercises are very clever,but its one

5、thing to improve a persons ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text requires the ability to understand the relationship between ,for these reasons,many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training,especially since any approach which trai

6、ns a person to read isolated (孤立的) words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.1The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following factors EXCEPT . and tiredness length of a group of wordss purpose in readings familiarity with the text答案:B解析:细节理解题。第一

7、段最后两句说明:每个人识别单词的跨度根据其阅读的目的、对材料的熟悉度而不同,另外还会受到照明、疲劳度等因素的影响,因此可排除A、C、D三项,而选B项。2The author may believe that reading . a reader to take in more words at each fixation a reader to see words more quickly a deeply-participating mind more eyes than mind答案:C解析:推理判断题。根据第二段倒数第二句可知,阅读需要理解单词间关系的能力,所以推知作者认为阅读需要大脑去

8、理解,故选C项。3What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in the second paragraph? ability to see words is not needed for efficient reading. reading exercises mentioned are useless for reading. reading exercises mentioned cant help improve efficient reading. reading exercises mentioned have done

9、 a great job so far.答案:C解析:推理判断题。画线部分意为:但是提高一个人看单词的能力是一回事,提高他有效阅读材料的能力是另一回事。由此判断,作者认为这样的训练无助于有效阅读能力的提高,故选C项。4The tune of the author in writing this text is . 答案:A解析:主旨大意题。A项意为“批评的”;B项意为“中立的”;C项意为“支持的”;D项意为“乐观的”。通读全文可知,作者对现在阅读能力的培训持否定态度。BLucille Clifton was the first African American Poet Laureate of

10、 call her one of the greatest writers of our time.Lucille Clifton was born in Depew,New York in began writing poetry when she was about ten years had developed an interest in poetry because of her mother,Thelma mother was also a poet although her poems were never a child Lucille would sit on her mot

11、hers lap and listen as she read learned to love words and the power of stayed with her as she grew.While her mother taught her to love poetry,her father gave her the gift of would tell Lucille interesting stories about her ancestors,especially the one named Lucille who was his Clifton said she was t

12、he first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Clifton wrote about it in her poem called “Lucy”.Lucille often talked about her love for loved the sound of words and the way the words felt in her loved finding interesting ways to use words to express what was happening in the world.Unlike

13、her mother,Lucille Cliftons poetry is anything but poems do not rhyme or follow a special kind of do not use fancy poetry is known for being simple,truthful and is written the way people speak,in a casual(随意的),relaxed is very little punctuation and even less of the poems are uncomfortably Clifton of

14、ten said that she tried to comfort the afflicted(折磨的) and afflict the the years,she seems to have perfected that art.5What can be learned from the passage?s parents influenced her a lot.s father often read poems to her.s mother published some poems.s parents taught her to love words.答案:A解析:推理判断题。由第二

15、段第二句、第四句、第五句和第三段的第一句可知A项正确。6The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to . gift of storytelling Cliftons experience story of Lucilles ancestorss great grandmothers story答案:D解析:词义猜测题。由第三段的最后两句可知,it指的是倒数第二句中的“shewasthefirstblackwomantobelegallyhangedinthestateofVirginia”。选项D中的greatgrandm

16、other意为“曾祖母”。7What is the last paragraph mainly about?s great works. that Lucille used.s writing style. of Lucilles poems.答案:C解析:主旨大意题。综合最后一段中的“.LucilleCliftonspoetryisanythingbuttraditional.donotrhymeorfollowaspecialkindofpattern.donotusefancywords.”可知,本段是关于其写作风格的。8From the passage,we know that Luc

17、ille is . 答案:B解析:推理判断题。由第一段所提到的露西尔是PoetLaureate(桂冠诗人),第二段讲她10岁开始写诗,第四段“Shelovedfindinginterestingwaystousewordstoexpresswhatwashappeningintheworld.”可知。CFor many people today,reading Shakespeares language can be a problembut it is a problem that can be readers may need to develop the skills of untang

18、ling(理清)unusual sentence structures and of recognizing and understanding poetic compressions(压缩),omissions(省略),and even those skilled in reading unusual sentence structures may have occasional trouble with Shakespeares hundred years of “static” intervene between his speaking and our of his immense v

19、ocabulary is still in use,but a few of his words are not,and,worse,some of his words now have meanings quite different from those they had in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.In the theater,most of these difficulties are solved for us by actors who study the language and are able to express i

20、t clearly for us so that the essential meaning is heardor,when combined with stage action,is at least reading on ones own,one must do what each actor does:go over the lines (often with a dictionary close at hand) until the puzzles are solved and the lines yield up their poetry and the characters spe

21、ak in words and phrases that are,suddenly,rewarding and wonderfully memorable.The language of Shakespeares poems,like that of poetry in general,is both highly compressed and highly most often discussed in terms of its images and its metrical(格律的) and other formal structures,the language of the poems

22、,like that of Shakespeares plays,also repays close attention to such basic linguistic elements as words,word order,and sentence structures.The New Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeares plays and poems offer readers assistance in understanding Shakespeares language with notes and images

23、 placed beside the play also include essays on how Shakespeare uses language in each work.9In the theatre,we can understand Shakespeares plays because . sitting by can help us if necessary can express Shakespeares essential meaning clearly language used in Shakespeares plays is exactly the same as t

24、oday are specially trained to understand Shakespeares plays答案:B解析:细节理解题。由第二段第一句“.actorswhostudythelanguageandareabletoexpressitclearlyforussothattheessentialmeaningisheard.”可知。10When you read Shakespeares plays by yourself,you cant . the lines with the help of a dictionary the lines yield up their p

25、oetry the characters speak in words and phrases that are,suddenly,rewarding and wonderfully memorable the play first and learn from the actors答案:D解析:细节理解题。由第二段最后一句“Whenreadingononesown,onemustdowhateachactordoes:gooverthelines(oftenwithadictionarycloseathand)untilthepuzzlesaresolvedandthelinesyieldu

26、ptheirpoetryandthecharactersspeakinwordsandphrasesthatare,suddenly,rewardingandwonderfullymemorable.”可知。11The underlined word “They” in the last paragraph refers to . and images placed beside the play texts languages in his plays and poems who love the New Folger Shakespeare Library editions New Fol

27、ger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeares works答案:D解析:词义猜测题。此句意为“它们也包括莎士比亚在每部作品中如何运用语言的文章”。they用来指代上文提到的复数内容,根据句意可知,此处指上句的“.editionsofShakespearesplaysandpoems”。12What do you think would be the best title for the passage? Shakespeares Plays Shakespeares Poems Shakespeares Language Editions of

28、 Shakespeares Poems答案:C解析:主旨大意题。由第一段第一句“.readingShakespeareslanguagecanbeaproblem.”可知。第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(导学号)Will the economic climate improve this year?I dont think we will see too much improvement this year,but of course I hope so.How important is an MBA

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