高考英语大一轮复习Unit4Pygmalion复习练案新人教版选修8

Unit 4 PygmalionⅠ.阅读理解A(2017·山东省济宁市高三期末)导学号 42492821 If you're ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the clear feeling that you've come across the story before—or even better, can predict exactly what's going to happen next—there could be a good reason for that.Researchers from the Computational Story Laboratory at the University of Vermont studied the complete text of some 1,737 fiction works available on Project Gutenberg, an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area.They discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the most well－known stories.By analyzing the sentiment(情感)of language used in these texts, the researchers were able to show the emotional ups and downs for the stories as a whole.They discovered that negative words like“poverty”，“dead”，and“punishment”dragged the emotion down, while positive terms like“love”，“peace”，and“friend”brought it up.According to the researchers, those six core emotional arcs are：●“Rags to riches”(An ongoing emotional rise)●“Tragedy, or riches to rags”(An ongoing emotional fall)●“Man in a hole”(a fall followed by a rise)●“Icarus”(A rise followed by a fall)●“Cinderella”(Rise－fall－rise)●“Oedipus”(Fall－rise－fall)Interestingly, based on download statistics from Project Gutenberg, the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads.Also popular are works that combine these core arcs together in new ways within one story, such as two“Man in a hole”arcs stuck together, or the“Cinderella”are coupled with a tragic ending.文章大意：文章介绍读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉，因为故事有相似的情感弧线。

1．Readers often feel familiar when reading a new story because stories havesimilar__D__.A．beginnings B．endingsC．characters D．emotional arcs解析：细节理解题。

根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the most well－known stories.”可知，读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉，因为故事有相似的情感弧线。

故选D。

2．How did researchers carry out their study？__C__A．By conducting surveys among readersB．By reading books borrowed from librariesC．By analyzing works from an online collectionD．By interviewing authors of the well－known stories解析：细节理解题。

根据文章第二段的句子“an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area.”可知，研究人员通过分析网络收集的作品进行这项研究。

故选C。

3．Which set of words may drag emotion down？__B__A．Hope, fortune and richesB．Disease, murder and warC．Smile, health and beautyD．Cold, earthquake and spring解析：细节理解题。

根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that negative words like”poverty“，”dead“，and”punishment“dragged the emotion down，”可知，消极的词会让情感低落。

故选B。

4．According to the last paragraph, which kind of works are most popular among readers？__D__A．Works with an ongoing emotional riseB．Works with an ongoing emotional fallC．Works with a rise followed by a fallD．Works with more than one rise and fall解析：推理判断题。

根据文章最后一段的句子“the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads.”可知，最受欢迎的是有不止一个起起伏伏的作品。

故选D。

B(2016·厦门市高中毕业班第一次质检)导学号 42492822 Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird on the racial troubles of the American deep south, has died at the age of 89.Until last year, Lee had been something_of_a_one－book_literary_legend.To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned her a Pulitzer prize, remaining a towering presence in American literature.Another novel, Go Set a Watchman, was controversially published in July 2015 as a “sequel” to Mockingbird, though it was later confirmed to be Mockingbird's first draft.But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost instant success, the author consistently avoided public attention.Lee had lived for several years in a nursing home near the house in which she had grown up in Monroeville, Alabama—the setting for Maycomb of her famous book.Her neighbor for 40 years, Sue Sellers, said, “She was such a private person.All she wanted was privacy, but she didn't get much.There was always somebody following her around.”James Naughtie, BBC Books Editor, c ommented on the novels of Harper Lee: “I think she stands, particularly among American readers, as someone who shone a light into a very dark place.She was writing at a time when people were beginning to lift the lid on everything in the South which they'd chosen not to understand.That all changed in the 1960s.So I think her status for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain.”文章大意：文章介绍了美国著名女作家哈珀·李及其成名作《杀死一只知更鸟》。