高考英语阅读理解之七选五一(含答案解析)

阅读理解之七选五一

1、根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

It was August 2, 1927. The news had spread fast. A man named Ralph Peer was coming to the city of Bristol. He wanted to make recordings of local people singing and playing musical instruments. ①__________That was a lot of money in those days.

Many people came to Bristol that day to play for Mr. Peer. But one group seemed to have just the sound that he was looking for. They were a man named A. P. Carter, his wife, Sara, and her cousin, Maybelle. ②__________

Sara sang lead, the loudest and highest notes. A. P. sang bass, the lowest notes. Maybelle sang harmony, somewhere in between. She also played the guitar in a new and unusual way.

③__________She played the main part of the songs on the lowest guitar strings. And then she quickly strummed by playing all the strings at once. This kind of playing became known as the “Carter Scratch”.

④__________ They did not sound like they had taken music lessons. But it did not matter. The people in poor rural areas thought they sounded just like their neighbors, or the people who sang in their churches.

⑤__________ They recorded more songs. They traveled to many cities and towns in the eastern United States to perform. Thousands of people heard them sing and bought their recordings. Some people estimate that within three years, the Carter Family sold three hundred thousand recordings.

A. The Carter Family sounded different.

B. The Carter Family soon became famous.

C. They called themselves the Carter Family.

D. The Carter Family wanted to have a try.

E. No matter where they went, they were well received.

F. And he said he would pay fifty dollars for each song recorded.

G. It sounded almost like two people were playing at the same time.

2、根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Carl Rowan was born in 1925 in the southern city of Ravenscroft, Tennessee. His family was very poor. ①__________

Growing up, Carl had very little hope for any change. There were not many jobs for blacks in the South. ②__________Racial tensions were high. Laws were enforced to keep blacks and white separate.It was a teacher who urged Carl to make something of himself. ③__________She urged him to write as much as possible. She would even get books for him because blacks were banned from public libraries.

Carl entered Tennessee State College in 1942. Carl Rowan did so well in college that he was chosen by the United States navy to become one of the first fifteen black navy officers. In 1948, Carl Rowan became a reporter. He was one of the first black reporters to write for a major daily newspaper. As a young reporter, he covered racial tensions in the South of the USA and the war in the Middle East. He also reported from Europe, India and other parts of Asia. ④__________In 1987, Carl Rowan created a program called "Project Excellence", which rewards black students who do well in school.Carl Rowan died on September 23, 2000, in Washington, D.C. During the last years of his life, he suffered from diabetes and heart problems. ⑤__________He worked until the end of his life.

A.The schools were not good.

B.He won several major reporting awards.

C.He said that experience changed his life.

D.But he never let bad things slow him down.

E. Bessie Taylor Gwynn taught him to believe he could be a poet or a writer.

F. The Rowan family had no electricity, no running water, no telephone and no radio.

G. The program provided millions of dollars to help African-American students for college.

3、根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中,选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

Warren Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.①__________One was a successful international conference (会议).