【正文】 e theaters in Shakespeare39。To show his love of Shakespeare39。To remember Shakespeare.They were too busy to practice.（4）What is the author39。They had stage crew to help them.B.Playgrounds.（3）What do we know about then actors? A.Companies.Stores.Stages.The queen didn39。They thought it affected people negatively.C.s time had a rank system. The pany belonged to shareholders and managers. They were responsible for everything and got most of the money when the pany was successful. Sometimes they even owned their own buildings. Actors worked for the managers and after some time became a permanent member of the pany. Apprentices (學(xué)徒) were young boys and were allowed to act in unimportant role. They also played female characters in plays.（1）Why was the theatre banned by the authorities? A. There was no stage crew as there is today. Actors had to do everything themselvesfrom making costumes to setting the stage. Plays were organized by acting panies. They performed about 6 different plays each week because they needed money to survive. They had almost no time to rehearse (排練).s time was full of life. People did not sit all the time and it was not quiet during the performance. The audience could walk around, eat and drink during the play.t allow acting in the city itself: They thought it had a bad influence on people and kept them from going to church. Queen Elizabeth, on the other hand, loved acting and helped the theatre bee popular.s lifetime. The authorities didn39。t read or write. The theatre in Shakespeare39。 【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，是一篇社會(huì)文化類(lèi)閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分析推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“The alarming distrust of the news media isn39。根據(jù)第二段中的“Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly lowlevel findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes,”可知，很悲傷的是，這個(gè)項(xiàng)目結(jié)果卻是很多膚淺的發(fā)現(xiàn)，比如事實(shí)性的錯(cuò)誤，單詞拼寫(xiě)和語(yǔ)法錯(cuò)誤等，因此可知，作者對(duì)這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的結(jié)果很失望，覺(jué)得發(fā)現(xiàn)很膚淺，故選D。本文主要講述，為了解釋為什么大眾不信任報(bào)紙信息，專門(mén)做了一個(gè)叫新聞可信度項(xiàng)目，結(jié)果卻是相當(dāng)?shù)媚w淺，大眾對(duì)報(bào)刊的不信任不在于單詞拼寫(xiě)錯(cuò)誤，語(yǔ)法不對(duì)，而是新聞?dòng)浾吆推胀ㄗx者之間世界觀的沖突，因此本文解釋了大眾不信任報(bào)紙的原因，故選B。prejudice in matters of race and gender【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，為了解釋為什么大眾不信任報(bào)紙信息，專門(mén)做了一個(gè)叫新聞可信度項(xiàng)目，結(jié)果卻是相當(dāng)?shù)媚w淺，大眾對(duì)報(bào)刊的不信任不在于單詞拼寫(xiě)錯(cuò)誤，語(yǔ)法不對(duì)，而是新聞?dòng)浾吆推胀ㄗx者之間世界觀的沖突。tendency to hire annoying reportersC.educational background（4）Despite its efforts, the newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the readers owing to its ______. A.world outlookB.working attitudeD.C.B.Aims of a journalism credibility project.（2）The results of the journalism credibility project turned out to be ______. A.Causes of the public disappointment about newspapers.C. This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums (討論會(huì)) and a credibility project devoted to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class prejudices that so many former buyers are plaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.（1）What is the passage mainly about? A. Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite (精英), so their work tends to reflect the traditional values of this elite. The alarming distrust of the news media isn39。 Replies show that pared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they39。s events. In other words, there is a traditional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a readymade narrative structure for otherwise confusing news. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly lowlevel findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, bined with lots of headscratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.4．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 故選D。 （4）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第三段中的 “Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform,” 可知這些隊(duì)伍認(rèn)為每個(gè)人都有表演的權(quán)力，所以他們想要參加節(jié)日。故選A。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。A paid administrator(行政人員) was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than million tickets were sold.（1）What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning? bring Europe together again. honor heroes of World War II. introduce young theatre groups. attract great artists from Europe.（2）Why did some uninvited theatre groups e to Edinburgh in 1947? owned a public house there. came to take up a challenge. thought they were also famous. wanted to take part in the festival.（3）What does the Fringe mean in the third paragraph? groups groups groups groups（4）We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh. It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交響樂(lè)團(tuán)). It became a fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly. 從這里可以得出橄欖