高三英语阅读理解关于作者态度及语气的阅读题

Questions about author’s tone or attitude

Words about attitude:

Objective subjective(personal)

Positive negative

Partial impartial

admiring underestimating

Indifferent interested

Serious joking(playful)

Optimistic pessimistic

(positive or negative?)

1.What is the author’s attitude towards the mayor?

wishes, has 1)After careful examination of the issues involved, the mayor, responding to the people’s announced that he will take immediate action. （positive）

2)After hesitating for as long as he dared to, and fruitlessly seeking excuses to escape, the mayor has at

long last given in to pressure and unwillingly agreed to try to do something. (negative)

2. British-born Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was imported to make scary melodramas and only gradually acquired the critical reputation his work continues to deserve. Known first as a man who made thrillers about spies and murders among highly civilized people, he was entitled the "master of suspense" in the late 1930s. The plots of his films were filled with unexpected twists of danger, as in the 1942 spy film Saboteur, when hero and villain have their showdown fight to the death on the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

The underlined words indicate a tone of__

A. admiration

B. indifference

C. negativeness

D. interest.

3. "Evil," stated Hitchcock once in an interview, "is complete disorder." That his villains were overcome in

the end is the price he had to pay to Hollywood's moral code. His happy endings are often injected with humor, as if to say, "The world really isn't so well run." He believed that we live in a fundamentally amoral universe in which good succeeds only by accident, in which good is a human action practiced successfully

by a few whose survival is by no means sure, and in which chaos is the laws of nature itself.

The tone of this passage is __

A.admiring

B. objective

C. subjective

D. impartial

4. Machine or artificial intelligence (AI) is a special area of computer science concerned with creating machines capable of functions that, in humans, require consciousness or intelligence. Whether or not there can be machine intelligence is a hotly debated point. We suggest that if intelligence can exist to varying degrees in living beings, then machine intelligence can exist even if it is no more than equivalent to the minimal living form. Let's just be reasonable and realistic in our expectations—perhaps even suspend disbelief—and we may be rewarded for our flexibility.

The tone in this introductory paragraph to a technology textbook is____

A.sorrowful and disappointed

B. underestimating and pessimistic

C. informative and optimistic

D. supportive and interested

5. In his now classic political treatise Leviathan (1651), Hobbes argued pessimistically that man's natural

state was war. Government, Hobbes theorized, particularly a monarchy, was necessary to restrain man's bestial tendencies because life without government was a "state of nature."

—O'Connor & Sabato, The Essentials of American Government, p. 16.

According to the passage, Hobbes's tone could be described as

A. critical

B. serious

C. playful D confused