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1、 1 模块综合测评模块综合测评 三三 阅读理解 共 15 小题 每小题 2 分 满分 30 分 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C 和 D 中 选出最佳选项 A Are you interested in country music I like it very much It will take me away for a while after I am tired The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields Country music usually talks of everyday life and
2、 feelings It s the spirit of America easy to understand slow and simple Country music developed in the Southern United States It was the folk music of American countryside Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers They talk about love crops or death The life of the countryside can be hard so the
3、 words in country music are often sad At first people played the music only at family parties But it became more popular later In the 1920s people played country songs on the radio and they made them into records When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work they took the
4、ir music with them Country music continued to change and became popular across America John Denver was one of America s most famous country singers in the 1970s His song Take Me Home Country Roads is well known and people still play it today 1 Country music is usually about A everyday life and feeli
5、ngs 2 B farmers feelings C the lives of workers D the lives of farmers 解析 细节理解题 由文章第二段第一句可知乡村音乐是关于日常生活 和感情的 答案 A 2 People began to make country song records A in the 1920s B in 1920 C in the 1970s D in 1970 解析 细节理解题 由文章第四段第四句可知 A 项正确 答案 A 3 Why did country music become popular in America A Because c
6、ity people liked the music B Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change C Because country music talked about city people s lives D Because country music developed in the Southern Africa 解析 细节理解题 由文章倒数第二段可知农民们带着音乐进城使得乡 村音乐流行起来 答案 B 4 Who is famous for the song Take Me
7、 Home Country Roads A A farmer in the countryside B A person who moved to towns C John Denver D John Denver s brother 解析 细节理解题 由文章最后一段可知这首歌是约翰 丹佛的 答案 C B Mozart was one of the greatest composers who ever lived He was born in Salzburg Austria in 1756 Even when he was very young Mozart loved music His
8、 father who 3 was the leader of an orchestra was very happy that his son was so interested in music When Mozart was three years old he learned to play the harpsichord which is a kind of piano Mozart began to compose music at the age of five and his father took him to play in front of the kings and q
9、ueens of Europe At one concert one of the violinists was missing from the orchestra Mozart picked up a violin and played the music without a mistake Mozart s father and the other players in the orchestra were surprised Mozart had never been taught to play the violin Mozart continued traveling around
10、 Europe with his father who was his teacher in everything He composed many pieces for the piano the violin and later for full orchestra Mozart could write down a piece of music even if he had heard it only once One day he went to hear a group of people singing in a big church in Rome The song was ve
11、ry special The church leader said that people could sing the song only once a year and only in his church No one else was allowed to have the music Mozart listened to the song Although it was very difficult and long Mozart went back home and wrote down the whole piece from memory The head of the chu
12、rch heard about this and instead of being angry with Mozart he gave him a prize When Mozart grew up people were not so interested in him He worked as a teacher and pianist but he did not make much money In 1791 at the age of 35 he died He was so poor that there was not enough money for him to have a
13、 proper grave No one knows where he is buried 5 The story is mainly about A Mozart and his music B a leader of an orchestra C the life of a great composer D the head of a church in Rome 解析 从全文可知本文主要讲述了一位伟大音乐家的一生 答案 C 6 Mozart s father helped Mozart a lot by A teaching him about music B giving him a
14、violin to play with C sending him to a music school D giving him a lot of money 4 解析 从第一段和第二段可知答案 答案 A 7 When Mozart was only three years old he A went to Rome B began to sing C began to compose music D played the harpsichord 解析 从第一段的第五句可知答案 答案 D 8 Although Mozart was one of the world s greatest com
15、posers A he died poorly B he did not teach anyone C he did not know many famous people D he couldn t play the piano or violin 解析 从最后一段可知答案 答案 A C You wake up in the morning the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time Then the telephone rin
16、gs you say hello and the drama starts The person on the other end has a depressing 令人沮丧的 tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to You are still in a wonderful mood Impossible Communicating with negative 消极的 people can wash out your happiness It may not change what you think but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time Life brings ups and downs but some people are stuck i
