【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 推理，歸納，從而選出正確答案。4．閱讀理解 Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere. Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers(揚(yáng)聲器)and play the music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics, and activities of the American people. But most of the radio broadcast is music. Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes es to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has bee a national star. Besides pop music, there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the mon life of Americans. The other is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies(交響樂)of Beethoven. There is opera for singers, ballet for dancers like the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in China.（1）In what way can music be regarded as an international language? music is what everyone enjoys. wonderful songs are popular with the world people. music is played, it seems as if it were speaking to us. is too popular for everyone to be able to play it.（2）What can we know about music and people in America? drivers listen to news as well as music when they drive to work. drivers never listen to music when they drive to work. drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the streets. always listen to music before class, in class and after class.（3）Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage? people in America like popular music. singers can get all the money from the tapes. Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music in China.，western or country music is a little different from its beginning.（4）What39。s the best title of the passage? language. in America. music. listeners.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了美國(guó)的幾種音樂。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“Music is an international songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere”可知，音樂是一種世界性的語言，用樂器演唱或演奏的歌曲對(duì)世界各地的人們來說都是美麗的，因此推斷美妙的歌曲深受世界人民的歡迎。故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to also listen to the news about sports，the weather，politics，and activities of the American people.”可知，成年司機(jī)開車上班時(shí)聽汽車收音機(jī)里的音樂，他們還收聽體育新聞，天氣，政治，和美國(guó)人民的活動(dòng)。A項(xiàng)正確。其他三項(xiàng)描述都不正確。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were ，any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.”可知，如今的鄉(xiāng)村音樂與過去是不同的。當(dāng)初它是牛仔唱給牛聽的，但現(xiàn)在它是任何關(guān)于鄉(xiāng)村生活或鄉(xiāng)村青年愛情的音樂。故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。從文中各段的描述看，本文主要講的是美國(guó)的音樂種類。故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Climate change is perhaps the key issue of our time. Often, however, it is presented to us as being so abstract that it seems impossibly distant. For those of you looking for something a little more concrete, a new report suggests that the effects of climate change may significantly affect coffee. The report, put out by The Climate Institute, describes the effects of climate change on various coffeegrowing nations and the resultant effects on the plants and those who grow them. Coffee Arabica plants, which produce 70% of all mercial coffee, can be adversely affected by even a halfdegree change in typical weather conditions. This sensitivity to temperature puts the plant at increased risk of the effects of climate change. In Central America the average temperature has risen by a full degree Celsius since 1960. In Ethiopia the average temperature has increased by 1. 3 degrees. This increase is enough to have notable effects on the plants. In Tanzania the productivity per hectare of coffee has fallen by half since the 1960s due to changes in temperature. Indeed, studies claim that by 2050 the area of the world suitable for growing coffee will be cut by half. Coffee production is likely to then be pushed to higher elevations (海拔) to take advantage of lower temperatures, but this will not be enough to make up for lost lowland areas. Coffee is the second most traded goods by developing nations, and the inability of producer nations to export it could cause dramatic chain reactions in their economies. Millions of people make a living in the production, processing, transport, and sale of coffee。 their livelihoods would stand to take a blow as growing areas decrease and prices rise. As the temperature keeps rising, your cup of coffee will bee much more expensive, and it may also carry an aftertaste bitterer than usual, for all those workers in the coffee belt left without the means to make a living as conditions worsen. Not only that, but the economic effects will cost the West millions in increased foreign aid.（1）What does the underlined word adversely in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A.slightlyB.temporarilyC.harmfullyD.gradually（2）Why will people have to grow coffee in highland areas? A.To adapt to the change of temperature.B.To increase the quality of the products.C.To reduce the cost of coffee production160