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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. 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。 (1)考查推理判斷。故選B。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,成年司機開車上班時聽汽車收音機里的音樂,他們還收聽體育新聞,天氣,政治,和美國人民的活動。其他三項描述都不正確。 (3)考查細節(jié)理解。當初它是牛仔唱給牛聽的,但現(xiàn)在它是任何關于鄉(xiāng)村生活或鄉(xiāng)村青年愛情的音樂。 (4)考查主旨大意。故選B。7.閱讀理解 art culture. Jazz clubs around the city still host concerts with local jazz musicians like Rob Dixon and Joel Tucker. One of these clubs, the Chatterbox Jazz Club, still has live jazz seven nights a week. s culture, jazz music was gone from the streets for many years. Jazz prospered in the mix of American cultures around the Avenue in the 1930s and 1940s. But in the 1950s, things changed. After the war, there were projects to make the city beautiful and build a university nearby. Both of these seemed like good changes. However, the new university and buildings caused poorer families to have to leave the area. This destroyed the Indiana Avenue munity and with it, its jazz culture. Today there are several oldstyle jazz clubs where friends can meet up to remember the past or just enjoy a summer evening. It might seem at first that jazz is alive again, but there is a sad reality behind these jazz clubs: Modern Indy jazz is only a shadow (影子) of the lively culture that was once on Indiana Avenue.(1)What does the author mainly want to say in Paragraph 1? clubs can make big money. musicians often hold concerts. music is popular in Indianapolis. culture is just part of Indianapolis39。 (1)考查段落大意。 art culture.” 現(xiàn)在到了2019年,爵士樂是印第安納波利斯藝術文化的重要組成部分。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中中的“But in the 1950s, things changed…. However, the new university and buildings caused poorer families to have to leave the area. This destroyed the Indiana Avenue munity and with it, its jazz culture.” 但在20世紀50年代,情況發(fā)生了變化。大學和建筑使得貧困家庭不得不離開這個地區(qū)??芍D(zhuǎn)折詞but之后描述了爵士樂的衰落,因此推測出劃線詞prospered意為“興盛、蓬勃發(fā)展”。 (3)考查細節(jié)理解。為此,它開始做出新的改變??芍?,它重建了一些舊的重要區(qū)域。 (4)考查細節(jié)理解??芍?,爵士樂的本土文化消失了。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解,詞義猜測和段落大意三個題型的考查,是一篇文化類閱讀,要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上,進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系,進行分析,推理,概括和歸納,從而選出正確答案。 In our annual Readers39。 Rome, Italys main attractions are famous not because of tourist advertisements, but because they are really so impressive. No wonder it39。 Paris, France London, United Kingdoms favorite canvas, home to more than 1,000 galleries, and the kind of place where you can spend a whole day in a single museum and still be ready for more when it opens the next morning. As we all know, Western music would be unrecognizable without Austria39。s also the site of the Vienna Secession, a revolutionary art movement founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt. Visitors today can see the fruits of all that creativity in the city39。 (1)考查細節(jié)理解。 Rome, Italy部分中的“No wonder it39。由此可知羅馬被視為永恒之城是因為人們可以很容易地找到新的藝術和文化。 (2)考查詞義猜測。s capital”可知,如果沒有奧地利的首都,西方的音樂將是不可識別的,因此推斷畫線句句意:奧地利誕生了許多著名的音樂家。 (3)考查推理判斷。 Choice Awards survey, we asked our readers to rate their favorite cities in the world for arts and culture.”可知在一年一度的讀者選擇獎調(diào)查中,我們要求讀者對世界上最喜愛的藝術和文化城市進行排名。故選B。9.閱讀理解 There is no fighting now, of course. But there is still a strong sense of rivalry (敵對) between the two nations. That39。 Many reasons were given. France has a better climate and a more relaxed lifestyle, with some of the longest holidays in Europe. It is thought to have better public services in every area from health to transport. People in France work shorter hours and enjoy longer vacations. And think of the food and wine!They prefer the longer holidays there.B.France is not far away from England.D.they like better the more dynamic lifestyleB.they live in France for a long timeD.Work and live in France.B.Work in London and live in France.D.Both of the people like to move between two countries.B.The French are being more British.D.英國人想要在法國生活,因為法國有更好的氣候和更放松的生活方式,有一些歐洲最長的假期。而每年大約有15000名法國人來到英國居住,主要定居在倫敦。 (1)考查細節(jié)理解。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段中的“They are attracted by higher pay in Britain, lower taxes, a more dynamic lifestyle.”可知一些法國人主要定居在倫敦是因為他們被英國更高的工資、更低的稅收、更有活力的生活方式所吸引。 (3)考查推理判斷。它被認為在從健康到交通的各個領域都有更好的公共服務。綜上,兩國人們最理想的生活方式是:在倫敦工作,在法國生活。 (4)考查推理判斷。他們是鄰居,只隔著20英里遠的英吉利海峽。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查,是一篇文化類閱讀,考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息,并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理,從而選出正確答案。 Back in 2009, China was wrongly accused by the West of controlling the Copenhagen talks on climate change. By then China had truly carried out strict policies to reduce the energy consumption of economic activities and at the inter