高三英语二轮复习 专题一 人物传记型阅读理解精品课件 新课标

【解析】本文是一篇人物简介。主要介绍了著名的剧作家 Arthur Miller以及他的著名的作品Death of a Salesman。
专题一 │ 真题典例
( )1.Why did Arthur Miller’ s father move to the USA? A．He suffered from severe hunger in his home country. B．He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”． C．He hoped to make his son a dramatist. D．His family business failed. 【解析】 B 细节理解题。根据第一段Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary，drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”可 知他是受到Great American Dream的吸引才搬往美国的。
专题一 人物传记型阅读理解
专题一
人物传记型阅读理解
专题一 │ 专题导读
专题导读
这类文章一般可分为人物传记和短篇故事两类。人物传记 主要涉及某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、 成长和奋斗历程等，其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主 线，脉络清楚，可读性较强。因此，阅读这类文章应该抓住时 间线索来获取有关信息，即主人公在某个时间做过什么，然后 通过分析推理、综合归纳的方法进行解题。
专题一 │ 真题典例
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go.
专题一 │ 真题典例
( )3.What can we learn about Willy Loman? A．He treats his employer badly. B．He runs the Wagner Company. C．He is a victim of the American system. D．He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
【解析】 C 推理判断题。根据第二段最后 He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end. 可知他最终自杀了，由此可知他是美国制度的牺牲品。
专题一 │ 真题典例
( )4.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman ________. A．achieved huge success B．won the first Tony Award C．was warmly welcomed by salesmen D．was severely attacked by dramatists 【解析】A 细节理解题。根据第三段When it was first staged in 1949, …It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.可知这部作品在第一次演出时获得了巨大的成 功。
专题一 │ 真题典例
( )5.What is the text mainly about? A．Arthur Miller and his family. B．The awards Arthur Miller won. C．The hardship Arthur Miller experienced. D．Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
专题一 │ 真题典例
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10,2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death 大意题。本文主要介绍了剧作家 Arthur Miller以及他的著名的作品Death of a Salesman。 所以答案为D。
专题一 │ 新题预测
新题预测 (一 ) Benjamin Banneker was born a few months before another great American—George Washington. Benjamin was black, but he was not a slave. He and his mother and his grandmother were free. Benjamin’s grandmother came from England. In America she got a job and worked for many years to pay for her boat trip across the ocean. After working many more years, she saved enough money to buy a farm. Benjamin lived with her for a while. She taught him to read and write and do arithmetic.
专题一 │ 真题典例
( )2.The play Death of a Salesman ________. A．exposes the cruelty of the American business world B．discusses the ways to get promoted in a company C．talks about the business career of Arthur Miller D．focuses on the skills in doing business 【解析】 A 细节理解题。根据第二段 Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system， with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth.可知这部 作品暴露了美国商业界的残酷。
专题一 │ 专题导读
这两类阅读材料一般较长，即词数多，而且命题也较多， 特别是推理判断题和事实理解题多。同学们在做此类阅读理解 题时往往是材料看得懂，题目不好做的感觉。因此，同学们在 阅读材料时要重点放在事情发展的过程和结果上，注意把握事 件的发展进程及人物之间的关系，细节与主题的关系，用以说 明人物性格特点的事实、作者的态度等，这些内容往往是推理 判断题的命题点。掌握了这些内容，同学们在做推理判断题时
专题一 │ 真题典例
Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end. When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
专题一 │ 专题导读
就不会以个人思维想象代替根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理 判断，也只有这样才不会以偏概全。至于事实细节题的解答， 同学们切忌想当然或者凭印象，一定要找到文章中的原句，和 题干进行比较，再做出正确选择。
专题一 │ 真题典例
真题典例 [2011· 山东卷] Arthur Miller (1915－2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary， drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”．However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
专题一 │ 新题预测
Benjamin’s neighbors knew that he was clever. They were not surprised when he built a large wooden clock. He made each piece after studying a small pocket watch. The clock made him famous, for it was one of the first clocks built in America. People from other places began to send hard problems of all kinds for Benjamin to settle. Thomas Jefferson learned of Benjamin Banneker’s ability to settle hard problems. He asked Banneker to help build the city that was to be the capital of the United States— Washington, D．C.
专题一 │ 专题导读
短篇故事与人物传记不同的是，这类文章一般描述的是 某一件具体事情的发生、发展或结局，有人物、时间、地点和 事件。命题往往从故事的情节、人物或事件之间的关系、作者 的态度及意图、故事前因和后果的推测等方面着手，考查学生 对细节的辨认能力以及推理判断能力。阅读这类材料时，同学 们一定要根据主要情节掌握文章主旨大意，同时抓住每一个细 节，设身处地根据文章内容揣摩作者的态度和意图，根据情节 展开想象，即使是碰到深层理解题也可迎刃而解。