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1、2019中考英语首字母、短文语法选择、阅读新精选（10）一、阅读理解。A（2019中考选练）Your computer has been playing music for years, one CD at a time. Now hundreds of songs can be stored in your PC if they re in the MP3 format (格式).What is it?MP3 compressed(压缩) music into small computer files. You may download MP3 music several ways: Mus
2、ic can be downloaded from websites that have turned wide music libraries into MP3. Once MP3 music is on your PCs hard drive, you can play it through your computers speakers, burn it onto blank CDs or swap(交换) MP3 files with friends using e -mail.How much?Software needed to play and convert MP3 music
3、 is often free. Compact portable MP3 players start at around $ 40 and can hold hundreds of songs. A blank CD on which you can record music costs about a dollar.Advantages MP3 turns your home PC into a jukebox(自动唱机) . Small MP3 players are the size of a deck of cards(一副牌), making it easy to take hund
4、reds of songs with you. DisadvantagesYou may find that some websites only allow you to listen but you cant download music. Others let you download music but cant be copied to MP3 players. And a growing number of new CDs make it impossible to copy songs to a computer.1. How can you get MP3 music?A. B
5、y turning your home PC into a jukebox. B. By taking your own music or songs with you. C. By copying songs to a PC through the speakers.D. By downloading from websites, which have turned music libraries into MP3.2. What is the closest meaning of the underlined word burn?A. Copy. B. Play. C. Store. D.
6、 Change.3. Which is NOT true according to the passage?A. MP3 music is often free.B. MP3 music can be burned onto blank CDs or be swapped with friends by e -mail.C. MP3 music can be taken along while traveling.D. A growing number of new CDs make it possible to copy songs to a computer.4. How much wil
7、l you pay for a compact portable MP3 player?A. Free. B. At least 10 dollars. C. About forty dollars. D. About a dollar.5. How many disadvantages of MP3 can we see from the passage?A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 参考答案CACAD B歌剧版红楼梦You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.
8、But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions(红楼梦), written by Cao Xueqin(17151763). Now the book has been made into an English language opera. The opera was first performe
9、d last September in San Francisco, US. This month it came to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.Many of the operas creators have backgrounds(背景)in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a
10、foreignlanguage opera.The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a ChineseAmerican, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to writ
11、e a heartbroken tragedy(悲剧) that everyone would understand.The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes(服装) and stage settings(布景). He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is u
12、sually water around her on the stage.The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audiences. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to “have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born”1. Who wrote the opera for the Chinese classic novel A Dre
13、am of Red Mansions?A. Lin Daiyu. B. Cao Xueqin. C. Jia Baoyu. D. David Henry Hwang.2. The opera was _A. sung in poetic Chinese B. first performed in BeijingC. performed in China after one year D. performed in many languages3. Which of the following is NOT a difference between the book and the opera?
14、A. The language used. B. The sad love story.C. The number of characters. D. The whole familys story.4. Why did the creators make the book into an Englishlanguage opera?A. Because they had backgrounds in Western culture.B. Because they thought the book was not good enough.C. Because they hoped to hel
15、p others learn English.D. Because they wanted Westerners to know about the Chinese novel.5. The best title of the passage is probably _. A. A Dream of Red Mansions Is Popular B. Introduce the Chinese Classic to WesternersC. Turn the Chinese Classic into An OperaD. The Chinese Culture Is Colorful【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了一个外国人把中国的经典名著红楼梦改编成歌剧。创作者这样做的原因在于他们想让更多的人了解中国的经典文化，想把中国的文化传播出去。1. D【解析】细节理解题。题干意为：谁为中国经典小说红楼梦写了这部歌剧？A项：林黛玉；B项：曹雪芹；C项：贾宝玉；D项：戴维亨利黄。根据文章第四段第二句“But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just
