【正文】 t do that. Wolfe turned outwards. He was a guy who was interested in other people. Wolfe was interested in how they thought, how they did things and how the things they did affected the world around them. When Tom Wolfe39。 Wolfe began working as a newspaper reporter, first for The Washington Post, then the New York Herald Tribune. He developed a literary style in nonfiction that became known as the New Journalism. I39。9．The passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“More and more people in America are celebrating the Indian holiday Diwali. Diwali is Hindi for ‘row of lights’. It is the most important holiday in India.”可知，Indian Holiday Diwali也照亮了美國。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“Neeta Bhasin created the Times Square event. She said Indian immigrants have found great success in America. But, she said, many Americans still do not know much about India.”可知，Neeta Bhasin成立了the Times Square的活動(dòng)是為了讓印度文化在美國更廣為人知。故選B。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。它是印度最重要的節(jié)日。Indian Holiday Diwali lights up America, too.D.Diwali is mainly celebrated in Disney Parks.B.It has been held for 40 years in America.D.It is held in autumn in India.B.To make Indian culture better known in the US.D.To make the American culture richer.B.D.Food.B.Dances.s largest celebrations, with more than 15,000 people in attendance each year. Visitors can enjoy Indian dance，food and fireworks. Organizers also plan to float hundreds of lighted candles in the San Antonio River, along the city39。 A Diwali celebration will light up Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim this year. Visitors can watch performances of traditional Indian dances and take part in a Bollywood dance party. The event is part of a Festival of Holidays program at the theme park to show cultural traditions from around the world. The program takes place on November 10th through January 7th. Bhasin came to the United States from India 40 years ago. She is president of ASB Communications, the marketing firm behind Diwali at Times Square. Tens of thousands of people attend the event, now in its fourth year.s rich culture, heritage, arts and variety to the world, she said, and I couldn39。 Neeta Bhasin created the Times Square event. She said Indian immigrants have found great success in America. But, she said, many Americans still do not know much about India. So, she decided to act. I felt it39。 Many people around the world are beginning to celebrate it as well. The United States is one of the places where the festival is being more mon. Diwali celebrations can now be found at American landmarks like Disneyland in California and New York City39。8．閱讀理解 故選A。根據(jù)最后一段中的During the first year after they39。故選A?！敝Z貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)得主的獎(jiǎng)金如何用的決定通常會更清晰，公開。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第一段可知，諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)獲得者在決定如何花他們的獎(jiǎng)金時(shí)展現(xiàn)出很多的獨(dú)特性。作者還提到了諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)獲得者對獎(jiǎng)金的花費(fèi)更公開，而文學(xué)家獲得者對獎(jiǎng)金的花費(fèi)更私人化。disappear from the public eyes for a period of time【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)獲得者在決定如何花他們的獎(jiǎng)金時(shí)展現(xiàn)出很多的獨(dú)特性。make more money from writingC. . A.D.C.B.Winners bee more independent on their country（2）Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase clearcut in paragraph 6? A.Nobel winners have great originality in using prize moneyC.ve won they often write less, but they generally continue after a year or two, said Gunder.（1）From the passage, we learn that ______. A. For winners of the peace prize the decision is often more clearcut, as the honor tends to go to politicians, organizations and activists who are under more public supervision. Many, like US President Barack Obama in 2009 and the European Union in 2012, donate to charities. Real estate, however, is a popular option, at least among those willing to reveal what they spend the money on. Phillip Sharp, the American cowinner of the 1993 medicine prize, decided to splash out on a 100yearold Federal style house. I took that money and bought a little bit bigger house... It39。 Lars Heikensten, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, said there were no obvious shopping trends among winners. Nobel prize winners sometimes display as much uniqueness when deciding how to spend their prize money as they did on the work that won them the award in the first place. 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。所以從最后一段可知，infrasound將在未來的電影中被更多地使用。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故第三段加下劃線的subtle一詞是C選項(xiàng)“不明顯的”。所以這段在解釋最好的電影音樂是不易被觀眾察覺的音樂。s causing it. Only when the music is taken out of the film should audiences understand its effects.可知，觀眾應(yīng)該感受到的只是一種強(qiáng)烈的情感——他們不應(yīng)該意識到是什么導(dǎo)致了這種情感。根據(jù)第三段中的All that audiences are supposed to feel is a heightened sense of emotion—they shouldn39。故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的Using this knowledge, posers use sudden changes in film music speed to create fear among audiences.可知，利用這一知識，作曲家利用電影音樂速度的突然變化在觀眾中制造恐懼。故選B。所以通過反向推理，要是有了背景音樂，恐怖電影和喜劇電影就截然不同了。根據(jù)第一段中的But try watching them without the background music and you just might decide they39。It will be used more in movies in the future.【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，電影和音樂的關(guān)系密切，音樂對于電影影響重大，作者說明了電影制作者如何用音樂來渲染氣氛。It makes audiences relaxed.C.It can39。D.C.B.The unexpected change of the music.（3）What does the underlined word subtle in the third paragraph mean? A.The slow speed of the tangle.C.Their time and place.（2）What causes fear among audiences? A.Their actors.Their background music.Their history.s called infrasound (次聲波) to arouse fear. While we may not be able to hear it because its frequency is below the range of the human ear, infrasound has been proven to cause anxiety, tremble and even sorrow. For example, infrasound was used in