16 八年英语真题分类专项阅读理解考点4 社会生活类附答案.docx

1、16 八年英语真题分类专项阅读理解 考点4 社会生活类附答案第一部分 阅读理解考点4 社会生活类1（2017新课标）Some of the worlds most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz DayUNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day t

2、o raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across culturesDespite the celebrations, though, in the US the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generationsIts Jason Morans job to help chang

3、e that As the Kennedy Centers artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture“Jazz seems like its not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radios reporter Neal Conan “What Im h

4、oping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore Its actually color, and its actually digital”Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost “The music cant be

5、 presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958 It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says MoranLast year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Wallers music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much

6、 as it is concert music,” says Moran“For me, its the recontextualizationIn music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thou

7、ghts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialoguesThose are the things I want to foster”28Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day?ATo remember the birth of jazzBTo protect cultural diversityCTo encourage people to study

8、 musicDTo recognize the value of jazz29What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to?AJazz becoming more accessibleBThe production of jazz growing fasterCJazz being less popular with the youngDThe jazz audience becoming larger 30What can we infer about Morans opinion on jazz?AIt will

9、disappear graduallyBIt remains black and whiteCIt should keep up with the timesDIt changes every 50 years31Which of the following can be the best title for the text?AExploring the Future of JazzBThe Rise and Fall of JazzCThe Story of a Jazz MusicianDCelebrating the Jazz Day2（2017新课标）Minutes after th

10、e last movie ended yesterday at the Plaza Theater, employees were busy sweeping up popcorns and gathering coke cups It was a scene that had been repeated many times in the theaters 75-year history This time, however, the cleanup was a little different As one group of workers carried out the rubbish,

11、 another group began removing seats and other theater equipment in preparation for the buildings end The film classic The Last Picture Show was the last movie shown in the old theaterThough the movie is 30 years old, most of the 250 seats were filled with teary-eyed audience wanting to say good-be t

12、o the old buildingTheater owner Ed Bradford said he chose the movie because it seemed appropriateThe movie is set in a small town where the only movie theater is preparing to close downBradford said that large modern theaters in the city made it impossible for the Plaza to competeHe added that the t

13、heaters location(位置) was also a reason“This used to be the center of town,” he said“Now the area is mostly office buildings and warehouses”Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place However, these plans were

14、abandoned because of financial problems Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is locatedThe theater audience said good-by as Bradford locked the doors for the last timeAfter 75 years the Plaza Theater ha

15、s shown its last movieThe theater will be missed24In what way was yesterdays cleanup at the Plaza special?AIt made room for new equipmentBIt signaled the closedown of the theaterCIt was done with the help of the audienceDIt marked the 75th anniversary of the theater25Why was The Last Picture Show pu

16、t on?AIt was an all-time classic BIt was about the history of the townCThe audience requested it DThe theater owner found it suitable26What will probably happen to the building?AIt will be repaired BIt will be turned into a museumCIt will be knocked down DIt will be sold to the city government27What

17、 can we infer about the audience?AThey are disappointed with BradfordBThey are sad to part with the old theater CThey are supportive of the city officialsDThey are eager to have a shopping center 3（2017北京）Measles(麻疹)，which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more， was nearly wiped o

18、ut in the United States 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine(疫苗) But the disease is making a comeback， caused by a growing anti-vaccine movement and misinformation that is spreading quickly Already this year， 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA， compared with 189 for all

19、of last yearThe numbers might sound small， but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend When vaccination rates are very high， as they still are in the nation as a whole， everyone is protected This is called “herd immunity”， which protects the people who get hurt easily， including those who can

20、t be vaccinated for medical reasons， babies too young to get vaccinated and people on whom the vaccine doesnt workBut herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride， immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger dangerThats exactl

21、y what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from Orange County， California， where 22 measles cases were reported this month， to Brooklyn， NY， where a 17-year-old caused an outbreak last yearThe resistance to vaccine has continued for decades， and it is driven by a real but very sma

22、ll riskThose who refuse to take that risk selfishly make others sufferMaking things worse are state laws that make it too easy to opt out(决定不参加) of what are supposed to be required vaccines for all children entering kindergarten Seventeen states allow parents to get an exemption（豁免)， sometimes just

23、by signing a paper saying they personally object to a vaccineNow，several states are moving to tighten laws by adding new regulations for opting outBut no one does enough to limit exemptionsParents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons But personal opinions? Not go

24、od enough Everyone enjoys the life-saving benefits vaccines provide， but theyll exist only as long as everyone shares in the risks63The first two paragraphs suggest that _Aa small number of measles cases can start a dangerous trendBthe outbreak of measles attracts the public attention Canti-vaccine

25、movement has its medical reasonsDinformation about measles spreads quickly64Herd immunity works well when _Aexemptions are allowedBseveral vaccines are used togetherCthe whole neighborhood is involved in Dnew regulations are added to the state laws65What is the main reason for the comeback of measle

26、s?AThe overuse of vaccineBThe lack of medical careCThe features of measles itselfDThe vaccine opt-outs of some people66What is the purpose of the passage?ATo introduce the idea of exemptionBTo discuss methods to cure measlesCTo stress the importance of vaccinationDTo appeal for equal rights in medic

27、al treatment4（2017江苏）Before birth，babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and voicesThey can even distinguish their mothers voice from that of a female strangerBut when it comes to embryonic learning (胎 教)，birds could rule the roostAs recently reported in The Auk: Ornithological Advances，

28、some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch (孵化)New-born chicks can then imitate their moms call within a few days of entering the world This educational method was first observed in 2012 by Sonia Kleindorfer，a biologist at Flinders University in South Australia， and her c

29、olleaguesFemale Australian superb fairy wrens were found to repeat one sound over and over again while hatching their eggsWhen the eggs were hatched，the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothersa sound that served as their regular “feed me!” callTo find out if the special quality was more w

30、idespread in birds，the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren，another species of Australian songbirdFirst they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in Queensland before and after hatchingThen they identified begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notesA computer analysi

31、s blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks， ranking them by similarityIt turns out that baby red-backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their momsAnd the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs，the more similar were the babies begging callsIn addition，the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their moms voice were rewarded with the most foodThis observation hints that effective embryonic learning could signal neurological (神经系统的) strengths of children to parents An evolutionary inference can then be dra