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1、.阅读理解(建议用时15)AIt may seem to be a hard task to trace back the history of rap music, though you often see the informal music associated with highly informal dance style. As far as the origin of rap music is concerned， most people agree that it is from AfroAmerican and Latino Street culture of New Yor
2、k City. Not only in this city but also in the surrounding areas there is the influence of African people and their culture.Rap is a vocal (口头的) style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in thyme, generally to a beat. The term of rap music is the same with hiphop music typicallyconsisting
3、of a rhythmic vocal style called rap. If we see it carefully, then we will definitely notice that the music usually is sung at higher pitches (调). Most of the time rap music is associated with chorus. Though rap music was primarily an American music style with African influence over its music and ly
4、rics, recently it has been spread to almost the entire world.There is hardly any country or nation where rap music cannot be seen in some form or another, and it is one of the most popular music styles among the youngsters. However, when it comes to its history, it is believed that hiphop or rap mus
5、ic started in the early 1970s, and gained much popularity throughout the world during the late 1970s and early 1980s.The history of rap music and hiphop music is full of controversies (争议) and bans, as the lyrics sometimes relate to drugs and crime; even most famous pop stars and hiphop musicians an
6、d singers were found to be associated with the controversies in their life. For that reason, no matter how popular this music style was or still is, it has always had a bad reputation in the eyes of mainstream society.篇章导读：本文介绍了说唱音乐的发展过程及其现在的影响力。1The passage is mainly about _.Awhen rap music started
7、Bhow rap music developsCwhat rap music is likeDwhy rap music is popular答案：B主旨大意题。从第一句“It may seem to be a hard task to trace back the history of rap music, though you often see the informal music associated with highly informal dance style.”及文章内容可知，本段文字主要介绍了说唱音乐的发展历史。2The characteristics of rap musi
8、c are _.Asolo, rhymes, beats and popsB speaking, rhythms, beats and soloCrepeating, speaking, pops and chorusD speaking, thymes, beats and chorus答案：D细节理解题。从第二段内容可知，说唱音乐主要特点是反复、押韵、有节奏、合唱。3Rap music is now one of the music styles mostly run after by_.Athe teenagers in AfricaBall kinds of people in the
9、 worldCthe youngsters all over the worldDthe young people in the US答案：C细节理解题。从第三段中的“it is one of the most popular music styles among the youngsters”可知，答案为C，即全世界的青年人都喜欢这种音乐形式。4Rap music is often not well thought of by the mainstream because_.Ait comes from the lower classB it has a short historyCit i
10、s associated with crimes and drugsD its music is full of controversies答案：C细节理解题。从最后一段第一句中的“as the lyrics sometimes relate to drugs and crime”可知，说唱音乐的歌词有时和毒品和犯罪有关，故不被主流社会所认同。1trace vt. 追溯；查到；发现 2.beat n. 节奏；节拍3primarily adv. 主要地；根本地4mainstream adj. 主流的；主要的 n. 主流1be associated with 与有关2as far as. conc
11、erned 就而言B2017山东省德州市联考Have you ever heard that we humans use only ten percent of our brains? This opinion holds a certain appeal because if it were true, then we could instantly become ten times more intelligent just by firing up that sleepy majority of the brain!The idea that we use only a small pa
12、rt of the brain dates back to animal experiments in the 19th century. When scientists stimulated (刺激) a specific part of the brain, the animal moved its leg or tail. If a tiny part of the brain could do something so great, what was the use of the rest of the brain? Some scientists assumed that large
13、 parts of the brain were simply useless.Then, in the early 20th century, scientists observed that stimulating certain parts of the brain had no physical effects. They named these seemingly useless parts of the brain the “silent cortex”. Today we know that in humans, much of the “silent cortex” is ac
14、tually devoted to complex activities like language, learning, and imagining.Brain scans have shown that different parts of the brain become much more active as we shift (切换) our attention and focus, but even as we sleep, many areas of the brain are extremely active. Would you be smarter if your enti
15、re brain constantly worked to maximum capacity (能力)? Interestingly enough, the opposite is probably true. The less brain activity you need to perform a given task, the more the brain as a whole is able to do.篇章导读：本文属于科普说明文，科学研究发现人脑中有百分之九十没有被使用。如果我们把这部分的作用开发出来，我们会更加聪明。5Why does the opinion mentioned in Paragraph 1 seem appealing?APeople wish to become much smarter.BPeople believe it is scientific.CPeople know nothing about the brain.DPeople want to make little use of their brain.答案：A推理判断题。根据第一段中的“.if it were true, then we could instantly become ten times more intelligent just by firing up t
