2016届高考英语阅读改错提升训练16 艺术殿堂

　　高考维“升”素16——艺术殿堂

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　　维A 阅读理解(每题2分，满分8分)

　　(2012·新课标全国卷)Are you looking for some new and exciting places to take your kids to？Try some of these places：

　　·Visit art museums.They offer a variety of activities to excite your kids' interest.Many offer workshops for making hand­made pieces，traveling exhibits，book signings (签名) by children's favorite writers，and even musical performances and other arts.

　　·Head to a natural history museum.This is where kids can discover the past from dinosaur models to rock collections and pictures of stars in the sky.Also，ask what kind of workshops and educational programs are prepared for kids and any special events that are coming up.

　　·Go to a Youtheater.Look for one in your area offering plays for child and family visitors.Pre­show play shops are conducted by area artists and educators where kids can discover the secret about performing arts.Puppet (木偶) making and stage make­up are just a couple of the special offerings you might find.

　　·Try hands­on_science.Visit one of the many hands­on science museums around the country.These science play­lands are great fun for kids and grown­ups alike.They'll keep your child mentally and physically active the whole day through while pushing buttons，experimenting，and building.When everyone is tired，enjoy a fun family science show，commonly found in these museums.

　　【语篇解读】 想要为孩子寻找新鲜而又刺激地方吗？形形色色的寓教于乐的博物馆是非常理想的选择。

　　1．If a child is interested in the universe，he probably will visit ________.

　　A．a Youtheater

　　B．an art museum

　　C．a natural history museum

　　D．a hands­on science museum

　　答案　C　[考查细节理解。根据Head to a natural history museum一段中的第二句话可知，孩子们在这里可以了解大自然发展的历史，故C项正确。]

　　2．What can kids do at a Youtheater?

　　A．Look at rock collections.

　　B．See dinosaur models.

　　C．Watch puppet making.

　　D．Give performances.

　　答案　C　[考查细节理解。根据Go to a Youtheater一段的内容可知，在这里孩子们可以看到木偶的制作，了解舞台化妆等内容。]

　　3．What does “hands­on science” mean in the last paragraph?

　　A．Science games designed by kids.

　　B．Learning science by doing things.

　　C．A show of kids' science work.

　　D．Reading science books.

　　答案　B　[考查推理判断。根据Try hands­on science一段的内容可知，“hands­on science”的意思是孩子们通过自己动手来学习和体验科学知识。]

　　4．Where does this text probably come from?

　　A．A science textbook.

　　B．A tourist map.

　　C．A museum guide.

　　D．A news report.

　　答案　C　[考查推理判断。综合文章的内容，可判断本文出自一份博物馆宣传册。]

　　维B 完形填空(每题1.5分，满分30分)

　　高考曾用材料：2010山东卷完形填空

　　选材相似度：★★★★

　　设题相似度：★★★

　　难度系数：★★★★

　　Dorothy

　　Brown

　　was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music.Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her __1__ concert.She had been waiting for this __2__ for years and years.“Now it is here at last，” she thought.“How beautiful her

　　__3__

　　is！”

　　The song made her __4__ to the days when she was Lauren's __5__.As a young __6__，Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer.She studied __7__ in France，Italy and in the United States.“You can become a fine __8__ in the future，”her teachers told her.“But you must be __9__ to study hard and work for many years.There will be __10__

　　time for anything but music in your life.”

　　Dorothy was __11__ at that time and she was __12__

　　that music was all she wanted or needed to

　　__13__

　　her life.For almost a year Dorothy __14__

　　of nothing else.Then she __15__

　　David，a young engineer travelling Europe.They soon fell in __16__.David asked her to be his __17__.Dorothy also wanted to marry David.But she loved __18__，too.She didn't know what to do.David was against her being a singer.He said，“If you want to be a singer，you must forget about getting married.You can't __19__

　　do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.

　　Now Lauren became a singer instead of her，which was her __20__.

　　【语篇解读】 本文使用倒叙的形式述说了Dorothy学习音乐的故事。

　　1．A.sorry

　　B．successful

　　C．first

　　D．wonderful

　　答案　C　[由下文的“这一时刻她等了好多年了”来看，这里说的是女儿第一次演出。由于演唱会没有开始，结果未知，因此可排除选项A、B和D。]

　　2．A.dance

　　B．moment

　　C．show

　　D．party

　　答案　B　[由下文可知，Dorothy Brown也曾学习过音乐，但由于认识David并结婚而影响了自己在音乐方面的发展，现在正好让女儿来完成自己的心愿。由此可知，她“盼望这一时刻好多年了”。]

　　3．A.voice

　　B．face

　　C．dress

　　D．life

　　答案　A　[由“今天小女儿Lauren将举办演唱会”来看，此处说的是“她的声音真美”。]

　　4．A.think of

　　B．bring back

　　C．go back

　　D．come back

　　答案　C　[此处意为“女儿的演出使她想到了和女儿一般大的时候的事情”。下面是回忆自己以往学习音乐的情况。go back to the days...意为“回忆起……的日子”。]

　　5．A.age

　　B．friend

　　C．mother

　　D．teacher

　　答案　A　[表示“和Lauren年纪相仿时”，故选A。]

　　6．A.musician

　　B．pop star

　　C．lady

　　D．girl

　　答案　D　[由上文“she”可知选D。]

　　7．A.French

　　B．music

　　C．piano

　　D．dance

　　答案　B　[由上下文可知“她曾在法国、意大利和美国学习过音乐”。]

　　8．A.actress

　　B．student

　　C．singer

　　D．dancer

　　答案　C　[由上下文可知，此处是老师告诉她她以后有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家。]

　　9．A.prepared

　　B．learning

　　C．driven

　　D．waiting

　　答案　A　[前面说“你有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家”，现在话锋一转，“但是你必须准备好努力学习、刻苦勤奋很多年”。be prepared to do sth表示“准备做某事”。]

　　10．A.some

　　B．any

　　C．no

　　D．enough

　　答案　C　[这是老师继续说的话：你要把全部时间用于音乐，不能用在其他方面。]

　　11．A.eight

　　B．eighteen

　　C．eighty

　　D．eighty­eight

　　答案　B　[由Dorothy遇到了David并与他结婚来看，当时她的年龄不可能是8岁、80岁或88岁。当时Dorothy为18岁比较合理。]

　　12．A.lucky

　　B．sure

　　C．afraid

　　D．fond

　　答案　B　[此处指“她确信”。]

　　13．A.fill

　　B．live

　　C．lead

　　D．take

　　答案　A　[fill one's life意为“充实生活”。]

　　14．A.heard

　　B．knew

　　C．talked

　　D．thought

　　答案　D　[“有接近一年的时间，Dorothy什么也不想”，这里说的是她一心扑在学习音乐上。]

　　15．A.saw off

　　B．learned fromC．heard of

　　D．met with

　　答案　D　[“她遇到了在欧洲旅游的David”。meet with意为“遇到，偶然碰到”。]

　　16．A.love

　　B．feeling

　　C．music

　　D．touch

　　答案　A　[从下文Dorothy也想嫁给他来看，这里说的是他们见面后不久就相爱了。fall in love(with sb/sth)意为“爱上某人或某物”。]

　　17．A.assistant

　　B．teacher

　　C．wife

　　D．student

　　答案　C　[从上文“他们相爱”可推测，此处说的是“David要她做他的妻子”。]

　　18．A.him

　　B．engineering

　　C．herself

　　D．music

　　答案　D　[Dorothy也想嫁给David，“但是她也爱音乐”，她不知道该怎么办。]

　　19．A.certainly

　　B．possibly

　　C．only

　　D．mainly

　　答案　B　[由“forget about”可知此处指“你二者不可能兼得”。possibly可以与can't连用，表示“不可能”。]

　　20．A.thought

　　B．hope

　　C．purpose

　　D．will

　　答案　B　[从上下文特别是“Now Lauren became a singer instead of her”可推测，Dorothy 想成为歌唱家的愿望由女儿实现了，故此处用hope。will往往含有“遗嘱，遗愿”的意思，在此不合情理。]

　　维C 阅读理解(每题2分，满分8分)

　　高考曾用材料：2012新课标全国卷C篇

　　选材相似度：★★★★

　　设题相似度：★★★

　　The

　　visual

　　arts

　　are those creations we can look at，such as a drawing or a painting，sculpture，architecture and photography，etc.Any one of these disciplines is a type of visual art.This is the simple explanation.However，the history of “the arts” is not so simple.

　　“The arts”，as a term，has an interesting history.During the Middle Ages，the arts were only limited to seven in number and did not involve creating anything at which people looked.They were grammar，music，rhetoric，dialectic logic，arithmetic，geometry and astronomy.These seven arts were known as the fine arts，in order to distinguish them from the “useful arts”．Why? Only “fine” people—those who didn't do manual labor—studied them.

　　At some point in the following centuries，people realized there was a difference between a science and an art.The phrase “fine arts” came to mean anything that had been created to please the senses. After losing the sciences，the list now included music，dance，opera and literature，as well as what we normally think of as “art”： painting，sculpture，architecture and the decorative arts.

　　Within the world of the visual arts，people still make distinctions between “fine arts” and everything else—and it gets really confusing，at times.For instance，we'll talk about painting and sculpture，and automatically consider these as fine arts.The decorative arts，which are，sometimes，of a finer nature and craftsmanship than fine arts，are not called “fine”．

　　Additionally，visual artists sometimes refer to themselves as fine artists，as opposed to commercial artists.But some commercial art is really wonderful—“fine” I would say.It would really simplify matters if we could all just stick with visual，auditory，performance or literary—when we speak of the arts—and remove “fine” altogether.

　　Notes：

　　craftsmanship n．技艺　②auditory adj.听觉的

　　长短句分析：It would really simplify matters if we could all just stick with visual，auditory，performance or literary—when we speak of the arts—and remove “fine” altogether.

　　句法点睛：这是个主从复合句，It would really simplify matters为主句，if引导的是条件状语从句，其中含有一个时间状语从句when we speak of the arts。

　　句意：艺术将真得让事情简单化，如果我们只局限于视觉、听觉、表演或文学——当我们谈到艺术的时候——并且彻底将“精细”划分从我们的观念中清除。

　　【语篇解读】 本文为说明文。全文主要介绍了何谓“视觉艺术”，其包括哪些艺术形式等。

　　1．The concept of the visual arts contains the following EXCEPT ________.

　　A．painting

　　B．sculpture

　　C．geometry

　　D．architecture

　　答案　C　[细节理解题。从文章开头“The visual arts are those creations we can look at，such as a drawing or a painting，sculpture，architecture and photography，etc.”一句可知C为正确答案。]

　　2．During the Middle Ages，the arts ________.

　　A．were more than seven in number

　　B．only referred to the fine arts

　　C．contained the fine arts and the useful arts

　　D．were studied by common people

　　答案　B　[细节理解题。从第二段可知，在中世纪时，艺术仅局限于被称为fine arts的七种艺术形式。]

　　3．Why do the visual artists call themselves fine artists?

　　A．They think visual artists are more respectable.

　　B．They think their arts are more impressive than other arts.

　　C．They want to emphasize they differ from commercial artists. D．They think arts should be commercialized.

　　答案　C　[细节理解题。从最后一段第一句可知，视觉艺术家自称为fine artists是为了和所谓的commercial artists区分开来。]

　　4．According to the author，the fine arts ________.

　　A．are better than other art forms

　　B．is a proper concept to refer to arts

　　C．is not an accurate term to classify arts

　　D．are often admired by visual artists

　　答案　C　[细节理解题。从倒数第二段最后一句和最后一段可知，作者认为fine arts的定义并不准确，且给艺术的分类带来不便。]

　　维D 根据短文内容，从下框的A～F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。(每题2分，满分10分)

　　Smoking's bad for your health，but exactly how does quitting make life better?

　　1.

　　Stopping smoking has been found to slow facial ageing and delay the appearance of wrinkles.The skin of a non­smoker gets more nutrients，including oxygen，and can reverse the sallow，lined complexion that smokers often have.

　　2.

　　People breathe more easily and cough less when they give up smoking because their lung capacity improves by up to 10% within nine months.In your 20s and 30s，the effect of smoking on your lung capacity may not be noticeable until you go for a run，but lung capacity naturally diminishes with age.In later years，having maximum lung capacity can mean the difference between having an active，healthy old age and wheezing when going for a walk or climbing the stairs.

　　3.

　　Half of all long­term smokers die early from smoking­related diseases，including heart disease，lung cancer and chronic bronchitis.Men who quit smoking by 30 add 10 years to their life.People who kick the habit at 60 add three years to their life.In other words，it's never too late to benefit from stopping.Quitting not only adds years to your life，but it also greatly improves the chance of a disease­free，mobile，happier old age.

　　4.

　　Scientific studies show that people's stress levels are lower after they stop smoking.Nicotine addiction makes smokers stressed from the “withdrawal” between cigarettes.The pleasant feeling of satisfying that craving is only temporary and is not a real cure for stress.Also，the improved levels of oxygen in the body mean that ex­smokers can concentrate better and have increased mental well­being.

　　5.

　　Within 2 to 12 weeks of stopping smoking，the circulation improves.This makes all physical activity，including walking and running，much easier.Quitting boosts the immune system，making it easier to fight off colds and flu.The increase in oxygen in the body makes ex­smokers less tired and less likely to have headaches.So people will become more energetic.

　　答案　1.F　2.D　3.A　4.C　5.B