【精编】2020版高考英语大一轮复习Unit4Pygmalion复习练案新人教版选修8.pdf
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1、文档来源为:从网络收集整理.word 版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.1文档收集于互联网,已整理,word 版本可编辑.Unit 4 Pygmalion.阅读理解A(2017山东省济宁市高三期末)导学号If youre ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the clear feeling that youve come across the story before or even better,can predict exactly whats going to happen nextthere could be a good reas
2、on for that.Researchers from the Computational Story Laboratory at the University of Vermont studied the complete text of some 1,737 fiction works available on Project Gutenberg,an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area.They discovered that English literature consist
3、of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the most well known stories.By analyzing the sentiment(情感)of language used in these texts,the researchers were able to show the emotional ups and downs for the stories as a whole.They discovered that negative words like“poverty”,“de
4、ad”,and“punishment”dragged the emotion down,while positive terms like“love”,“peace”,and“friend”brought it up.According to the researchers,those six core emotional arcs are:“Rags to riches”(An ongoing emotional rise)“Tragedy,or riches to rags”(An ongoing emotional fall)“Man in a hole”(a fall followed
5、 by a rise)“Icarus”(A rise followed by a fall)“Cinderella”(Rise fallrise)“Oedipus”(Fall rise fall)Interestingly,based on download statistics from Project Gutenberg,the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs,with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs register
6、ing the most downloads.Also popular are works that combine these core arcs together in new ways within one story,such as two“Man in a hole”arcs stuck together,or the“Cinderella”are coupled with a tragic ending.文章大意:文章介绍读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉,因为故事有相似的情感弧线。1Readers often feel familiar when reading a new stor
7、y because stories have 文档来源为:从网络收集整理.word 版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.2文档收集于互联网,已整理,word 版本可编辑.similar_D_.Abeginnings Bendings Ccharacters Demotional arcs 解析:细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the most well known sto
8、ries.”可知,读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉,因为故事有相似的情感弧线。故选D。2How did researchers carry out their study?_C_ ABy conducting surveys among readers BBy reading books borrowed from libraries CBy analyzing works from an online collection DBy interviewing authors of the wellknown stories 解析:细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“an online collec
9、tion of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area.”可知,研究人员通过分析网络收集的作品进行这项研究。故选C。3Which set of words may drag emotion down?_B_ AHope,fortune and riches BDisease,murder and war CSmile,health and beauty DCold,earthquake and spring 解析:细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that negative words like”pov
10、erty“,”dead“,and”punishment“dragged the emotion down,”可知,消极的词会让情感低落。故选B。4According to the last paragraph,which kind of works are most popular among readers?_D_ AWorks with an ongoing emotional rise BWorks with an ongoing emotional fall CWorks with a rise followed by a fall DWorks with more than one
11、rise and fall 解析:推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的句子“the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs,with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads.”可知,最受欢迎的是有不止一个起起伏伏的作品。故选 D。B文档来源为:从网络收集整理.word 版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.3文档收集于互联网,已整理,word 版本可编辑.(2016厦门市高中毕业班第一次质检)导
12、学号Harper Lee,whose 1961 novel To Killa Mockingbirdon the racial troubles of the American deep south,has died at the age of 89.Until last year,Lee had been something_of_a_one book_literary_legend.To Killa Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned her a Pulitzer prize,re
13、maining a towering presence in American literature.Another novel,Go Set a Watchman,was controversially published in July 2015 as a“sequel”to Mockingbird,though it was later confirmed to be Mockingbirds first draft.But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost instant success,the author con
14、sistently avoided public attention.Lee had lived for several years in a nursing home near the house in which she had grown up in Monroeville,Alabamathe setting for Maycomb of her famous book.Her neighbor for 40 years,Sue Sellers,said,“She was such a private person.All she wanted was privacy,but she
15、didnt get much.There was always somebody following her around.”James Naughtie,BBC Books Editor,commented on the novels of Harper Lee:“I think she stands,particularly among American readers,as someone who shone a light into a very dark place.She was writing at a time when people were beginning to lif
16、t the lid on everything in the South which theyd chosen not to understand.That all changed in the 1960s.So I think her status for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain.”文章大意:文章介绍了美国著名女作家哈珀李及其成名作杀死一只知更鸟。5What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably mean?_C_ ALee bec
17、ame successful with stories on American south.BPeople owe Lees success to luck to some degree.CMockingbird makes Lee a wonder in American literature.DMockingbird was a bestseller by selling 40m copies.解析:词义猜测题。根据画线部分后的To KillaMockingbirdsold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned he
18、r a Pulitzer prize,remaining a towering presence in American literature.可知,这本书的销量超过4,000 万册,且一直在美国文学史上独占鳌头。正是这本书使她成了美国文学史上的一个奇迹。故选C项。6What does“Maycomb”in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?_C_ AA nursing home.BLees hometown.CA fictional place.DA main character.解析:词义猜测题。Maycomb之前的 setting意为“背景”,再结合其后的of
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