高中英语(译林牛津版)必修五：Unit 1 Getting along with others Section Ⅰ 知能演练闯关含答案

A卷Ⅰ阅读理解AWhen it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness with me.When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend.We were shy and “too serious”about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors.We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say：“Let’s start with a train whistle today.”We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle.Then we would read them aloud.At the end of that school year, we, too, were changed into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend.He was in despair (失望) and I was in despair.But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time.We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things.We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted.We__gave__London__to__each__other.For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend.We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind.In my most interesting moments, I often think：“Yes, I must tell...”We have never met.It is such comforting companions I wish to keep.One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家)，who will only fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.【解题导语】全文讲述了朋友在成长过程中的重要作用。

1．In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ________．A．become serious about her studyB．go to her friend’s house regularlyC．learn from her classmates at schoolD．share poems and stories with her friendD解析：细节理解题。

由第一段最后三句可知：作者与她的朋友分享诗歌与故事。

2．In Paragraph 2，“We gave London to each other.”probably means ________．A．our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of usB．we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from LondonC．our unpleasant feelings about London disappearedD．we parted with each other in LondonA解析：句意理解题。

由第二段内容可知在我们的沮丧消失后，我们分开了，我们给对方留下了自己开拓的空间。

3．According to Paragraph 3, the author and her friend ________．A．call each other regularlyB．have similar personalitiesC．enjoy writing to each otherD．dream of meeting each otherC解析：推理判断题。

由第三段内容可知作者和朋友写了四年时间的信，由此可以推断她们都喜欢相互写信。

4．In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ________．A．ask for professional helpB．be left aloneC．stay with her best friendD．break the silenceB解析：细节理解题。

由最后一段最后一句可知，作者在最黑暗的时候喜欢一个人待着。

BRagtime is a fast and complex kind of music that was popular around the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott Joplin is now considered to be the most important American ragtime composer(作曲家) and piano player. During his lifetime, Joplin only enjoyed a brief period of professional success in the early 1900s. However, his work had an important, lasting effect on audiences, as well as other composers.When ragtime first appeared in the late nineteenth century, it was considered a low form of cheap entertainment, not a serious musical movement. Then in 1899, Joplin wrote a ragtime songcalled Maple Leaf Rag. The song showed Joplin’s creative blend(融合) of African-American rhythm and more established European-American musical styles. It was a huge success and helped to make ragtime popular with the general public. Maple Leaf Rag was the first instrumental composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. It was also the first music by an African American to find a large audience among European Americans.Although the general ragtime style already existed before Joplin began composing, his work attracted a lot of attention from other ragtime composers of his time. Songs like Maple Leaf Rag influenced these composers mostly because they were very popular with the public. And many of them started to add similar fast and complex rhythm to their music. Later, composers came to appreciate the high quality of Joplin’s music, which has continued to capture(引起) the imagination of many composers and musicians up to the present day. For example, many later jazz musicians were influenced by Joplin’s complex African­style rhythm. Jazz, in turn, went on to influence many more popular music styles. These include the blues, rock and roll, soul, and even hip­hop. As a result, many music historians now list Joplin’s work as an early basis of all modern popular music.【解题导语】本文是一篇说明文。