外研版高中英语选修6专项提升：M4阅读训练

专项提升：M4阅读训练
阅读理解
A
Americans have contributed to many art forms，but jazz，a type of music，is one that was not started in the United States. Blacks, who sang and played the music of their homeland, created jazz.
Jazz is a mixture of the music of Africa, the work songs the slaves sang and religious music. Improvisation(即席创作) is an important part of jazz. This means that the musicians make the music up as they go along, or create the music on the spot. This is why a jazz song might sound a little different each time it is played.
Jazz bands formed in the late 1800s. They played in bars and clubs in many towns and cities of the south, especially in New Orleans. New Orleans is an international seaport, and people from all over the world came to New Orleans to hear jazz.
Jazz became more and more popular. By the 1920s, jazz was popular all over the United States. By the 1940s，you could hear jazz not only in clubs and bars，but in concert halls as well. Today, people from all over the world play jazz. Jazz musicians from the United States, Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe meet and share their music at festivals on every continent. In this way jazz continues to grow and change.
1．What can be the best title for the passage?
A．American Art Forms.
B．The Development of Jazz.
C．The Music of Black Americans.
D．The Birthplace of Jazz.
2．Which of the following is TRUE?
A．Jazz is now popular all over the world.
B．Jazz is now a kind of religious music.
C．Jazz is now played only in bars and clubs.
D．Jazz is now played in the same way as before.
3．From the text it can be inferred that ______.
A．New Orleans is the place where jazz was first produced
B．the American people are all jazz lovers
C．jazz is merely sung by the black when work
D．jazz may become more popular as time goes on
4．It took about ______ years to make jazz popular in the United States.
A．200 B．120
C．80 D．40
B
Good evening. Tonight's broadcast brings together music from different corners of the world. The records we have chosen for you are from classical(古典的) Western music, Indian music, pop and a Negro spiritual. In this broadcast we shall study the language of music. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. You will hear a Beethoven piece, a composition(乐曲) for the sitar(锡塔琴), and songs sung by a pop group and some black Americans. It will be natural if you like one more than the others. I shall be trying to explain why they are all good music.
The feeling in each of these four musical compositions is sadness. You can find sadness in words, in paintings and in music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The muses were goddesses(女神) of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but uses sounds differently. In the spiritual and the pop song you will hear voices. The words are part of the musical composition. In the other pieces you will hear only the piano or the sitar. I will comment (评论) after each record is played. Music is now heard everywhere, in shops and buses and at home. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another bad.
5．The underlined word “spiritual” in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.
A．song B．poem
C．sentence D．article
6．The first paragraph in this article mainly shows us ______.
A．that music is popular in the world
B．some American songs
C．some Beethoven piano pieces
D．why people like music
7．The feeling of the famous musical compositions of the world given in the text is ______.
A．happiness B．sadness
C．strangeness D．surprise
8．The writer wishes us to spend time and energies in ______.
A．studying and know more about music
B．singing more popular songs in the world
C．hearing more pop musical compositions in the world
D．writing more encouraging compositions
参考答案与解析：
A篇
1．解析：主旨大意题。

纵观全文，本文主要是对爵士乐的产生及其发展作了一个简单的介绍。

答案：B
2．解析：细节理解题。

根据最后一段第四句“Today, people from all over the world play jazz”可知。

答案：A
3．解析：细节推断题。

根据原文最后一段最后一句话可知。

答案：D
4．解析：推理判断题。

由两个关键词“Jazz bands formed in the late 1800s”和“By the 1920s, jazz was popular all over the United States.”可推算出。

答案：B
B篇
5．解析：推理判断题。

根据The records we have chosen for you are from classical Western music, Indian music, pop and a Negro spiritual.可以知道a Negro spiritual是与classical Western music, Indian music相并列的，据此可推出spiritual 指的是一种音乐，因此选A。

答案：A
6．解析：推理判断题。

根据Tonight's broadcast brings together music from different corners of the world.可以知道，世界各地的人们都喜欢音乐。

答案：A
7．解析：细节理解题。

根据第二段第一句话，The feeling in each of these four musical compositions is sadness.可知此题答案为B。

答案：B
8．解析：推理判断题。

根据第二段倒数二、三句话，We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. It is worth making the effort.推知此题答案为A。

答案：A。