UNIT 5 单元过关检测(五)答案版

单元过关检测(五)

第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)

第一节(共10小题；每小题2．5分，满分25分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Andrew Feldman is a student at Lawrence Woodmere Academy (LWA) in Woodmere, New York．On June 25, 2018, he took home the top prize at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards(全美高中生音乐剧奖) at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre．

Also known as the Jimmy Awards, the awards were named to remember James M．Nederlander, a theatre owner and Broadway producer who died in 2016．

Feldman won the award for Best Performance by an Actor for playing Frank Abagnale Jr．in LWA’s production of “Catch Me If You Can．” He and Reneé Rapp each received a$10，000 scholarship．Rapp from Charlotte, North Carolina, is the winner of the Best Performance by an Actress award．The other remaining seventy-eight finalists received$3，000 scholarships．The finalists received a week of training at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) before the awards event．Instructors from Broadway taught them basic skills of performing arts．

Feldman also won the Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Scholarship．Carnegie Mellon University, based in Pittsburgh, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie．Feldman received an additional $7，500 to attend the university’s six-week summer play program．

He has been a Broadway lover since seeing “Beauty and the Beast”when he was young．And then he performed in his first play, a production of “Annie，”at eight．

The shock of winning has still not disappeared．“Winning the Jimmy Award is not something I even imagined，”Feldman said．“I didn’t think it could actually happen! It’s now been about a week and a half and I still don’t believe it．”

In 2014, Feldman created a theatre company called Zneefrock Productions．The company is run totally by teens．It was set up to raise money for NEXT for Autism, an organization helping to support autism programs．

【解题导语】本文是一篇记叙文。Andrew Feldman获得了2018年度全美高中生音乐剧大奖。

21．What did Feldman do during the week before June 25?

A．He traveled around Pittsburgh．

B．He received training at TSOA．

C．He performed at the Minskoff Theatre．

D．He visited Carnegie Mellon University．

B解析：推理判断题。由第四段中的The finalists received a week of training．．．(TSOA) before the awards event．可推断，在颁奖仪式之前，Feldman和其他决赛选手一起在帝势艺术学院接受了一周的培训。

22．What did Feldman say about winning the prize?

A．He was certain of it．

B．He was not expecting it．

C．It took him a lot of effort．

D．It was not a great achievement．

B解析：细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的Winning the Jimmy Award is not something I even imagined可知，Feldman并没有想到自己会获得吉米奖。

23．What is the text mainly about?

A．A group of Broadway lovers．

B．A theatre company run by teens．

C．The winner of the Jimmy Awards．

D．The influence of the Jimmy Awards．

C解析：主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文报道了2018年度全美高中生音乐剧大奖获得者Andrew Feldman。

B

A meeting of The Washington Post employees was held on 5 August, 2013．Into the crowded hall entered chairman Donald E．Graham, and his niece and publisher Katherine Weymouth．The air was thick．The newspaper was to get a new boss! Jeffrey P．Bezos of Amazon．com would buy the daily for $250 million in cash．

Both the uncle and the niece took turns in telling the news and answering their questions．Many of the audiences wept because they were unable to accept the news．“The rise of Internet and the change from print to digital technology have created a huge wave of competition for traditional news companies，”said Donald E．Graham．

In 2013, after struggling with the falling revenue(收益) for years, The Ne w York Times (NYT) sold its The Boston Globe newspaper for $70 million．The NYT bought the paper in 1993 for $1．1 billion．Just twenty years later, the company sold it for a cheap price．

Nowadays, things seem to be worse than ever．Newspapers are reporting negative growth across US and Europe．Francis Gurry, the 4th Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization said that newspapers would disappear by 2040．

This may cause a lot of problems for media jobs．For example, layoffs(裁员) and salary cuts