外研版高考英语一轮复习练习：选修7Module4课后练习题

(建议用时：30分钟)Ⅰ阅读理解A(2019·济南高考模拟)It’s OK to say you’ve never heard ofgrime—unless you’re from the U．K. That’s because this music wasinvented in the U．K. in the early 2000s.To someone who’s not familiar with underground music culture,it’s easy to get confused between hip­hop and grime since they are both noisy. And many people didn’t bother to tell them apart, until earlier this month when grime stars like Stormzy and J Hus led this year’s MOBO Awards—“Music of Black Origin”—nominations(提名) in the U．K.Just like U．K. electronic music and hip­hop, from which grime drew influence, it mostly reflects the thoughts of young people. But different from hip-hop, grime singers sing in dialects with strong accents, giving a special flavor to their songs.Lady Leshurr, known as the “Queen of Grime”，said that she once tried to hide her accent, as she didn’t want people to judge her. But one day, she realized that she didn’t need to change herself just to please others. And there’s no doubt that this is the most basic and important quality of grime music: be yourself.Also different from the hip­hop culture, which usually focuses on being rich, grime singers pay more attention to social phenomena like the European refugee problem and the gap between the rich and poor.Although still quite young, grime seems to be getting favored by more and more people. In 2016, the English grime artist Skepta won the Mercury Prize with his album Konnichiwa, beating big names like David Bowie and Radiohead. However, no matter whether grime is one day accepted by the mainstream music world or not, one thing is for sure: in grime, singers always stay true to themselves.【解题导语】本文主要介绍了英国的地下音乐形式grime，这种音乐与嘻哈音乐有着些许不同：相比嘻哈音乐，grime音乐歌手更关注社会问题。

1．What do hip­hop and grime music have in common?A．They are originated in the U．K.B．They make a lot of loud noise.C．They challenge traditional culture.D．They are full of creative ideas.B解析：细节理解题。

根据第二段中的“it’s easy to get confused between hip-hop and grimesince they are both noisy”可知，人们很容易把hip-hop和grime音乐弄混，因为它们都很吵，故hip-hop和grime音乐的共同之处在于它们的声音都很大，故选B项。

2．What does the underlined word “it”in Paragraph 3 refer to?A．Electronic music.B．Hip-hop.C．Grime music. D．Black music.C解析：代词指代题。

根据第三段中的“Just like U．K. electronic music and hip-hop”可知，画线词it所指代的音乐与英国electronic music和hip-hop相似，因此it就不能指代这两种音乐，故排除A、B选项；根据“But different from hip-hop, grime singers sing in dialects with strong accents, giving a special flavor to their songs.”可知，与hip-hop不同的是，grime歌手用带有浓重口音的方言演唱，赋予了他们的歌曲一种特殊的韵味，因此画线词it指的就是grime 音乐，故选C项。

3．What can be learned about grime singers?A．They care too much about themselves.B．They refuse to be judged by others.C．They tend to take social responsibility.D．They show strong independence qualities.C解析：推理判断题。

根据第五段中的“grime singers pay more attention to social phenomena like the European refugee problem and the gap between the rich and poor”可知，grime 歌手更多地关注社会现象，比如欧洲的难民问题、贫富差距。

因此grime歌手承担了社会责任，故选C项。

4．What does Skepta’s success suggest?A．Grime is gradually getting recognized.B．Singers should try to be themselves.C．Grime has become mainstream music.D．It is easy to win the Mercury Prize.A解析：推理判断题。

根据最后一段中的“Although still quite young, grime seems to be getting favored by more and more people.”可知，尽管grime音乐诞生时间不长，但它正在受到越来越多的人的认可与支持，grime歌手Skepta的成功证明了这一点，故选A项。

B(2019·洛阳第一次统考)It is quite apparent that competition surrounds every aspect of human life whether in the United States or the Amazon rain forest.Without it we would not have grown into primates(灵长类动物)．Or we would probably still be struggling to sharpen a bronze tool while crawling around on four legs in search of meat.Without competition, Columbus wouldn’t have discovered America and Edison would never have invented the light bulb.The friendship, like all relationships between two people, involves competition.It isn’t competition in a traditional sense because there are no goals to be scored and no prizes.Perhaps the ecological definition—the simultaneous(同时的) demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, living space, or light—better explains it.As in nature, high school life is governed by a set of laws, similar to a shortened version of Darwin’s theory of evolution, overpopulation, and competition. There is an abundance of high school students and to distinguish them, ranking and categorizing(分类) take place. In high school, friendship coexists with competition even though at times the relationship is rough. In fact, in some circumstances, competition is too much of a burden for friendship to bear, causing it to fall apart. College admission is the final high school objective.Four years of hard work is to achieve good grades, and a student’s fate is determined not only by these achievements, but by the records of thousands of other seniors trying to achieve similar recognition.Nevertheless, by necessity, competition between students exists in all aspects of high school life.It sets and improves the standards in everything from sports to schoolwork.Healthy, friendly competition can have only benefits, but when it becomes too fierce, jealousy(妒忌)can tear friendship apart.Yet, despite all this, without competition, we would be lost.【解题导语】本文是一篇议论文，主要论述了友谊和竞争之间的关系，健康的竞争能够增进友谊，而恶性的竞争则会破坏友谊。