高中英语大题精做05Unit5Music(含解析)新人教版必修2

Unit 5 Music

I. 阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Passage 1

体裁 记叙文 话题 UNESCO定国际爵士日来保护挽救爵士乐 词数 352 难度 ★★★☆☆ 建议时间 7分钟 (2017·新课标全国卷I) Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures.

Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.

＂Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,＂ Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. ＂What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.＂

Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. ＂The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,＂ says Moran.

Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, ＂just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,＂ says Moran. ＂For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how talk about ourselves and how something as

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abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,＂ says Moran, ＂so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.＂ 28. Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day? A. To remember the birth of jazz. B. To protect cultural diversity. C. To encourage people to study music. D. To recognize the value of jazz.

29. What does the underlined word ＂that＂ in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Jazz becoming more accessible. B. The production of jazz growing faster. C. Jazz being less popular with the young. D. The jazz audience becoming larger.

30. What can we infer about Moran’s opinion on jazz? A. It will disappear gradually. B. It remains black and white. C. It should keep up with the times. D. It changes every 50 years.

31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Exploring the Future of Jazz B. The Rise and Fall of Jazz C. The Story of a Jazz Musician D. Celebrating the Jazz Day 【答案】

【语篇解读】为提高人们对于爵士乐的重视程度，UNESCO把4月30日定为国际爵士日，然而这一行为还是没能挽救爵士乐。Jason Moran认为时代在进步，为了将老一代人和年轻一代人连接起来，爵士乐也应该不断进步。

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29. C 【解析】推理判断题。根据前文Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience

continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations可知尽管UNESCO为爵士乐设了纪念日，但美国的爵士乐听众依然在减少，并且年龄在老化，爵士乐没能将年轻一代人连接起来。再结合It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that(是Jason Moran的工作是帮助改变那一情况)可推测that指代的是前文中爵士乐在年轻一代人中失去吸引力的现象。故选C。

31. A 【解析】标题选择题。通读全文可知本文主要讲UNESCO为提高人们对爵士乐的重视而设立爵士日，

但实际收效甚微。有人认为爵士乐应随着时代的进步而进步，否则它将失去对人们的吸引力，因此本文主要是探索爵士乐的未来，故选A。

Passage 2

体裁 广告 话题 与音乐有关的活动 词数 194 难度 ★★☆☆☆ 建议时间 4分钟 (2016·新课标全国卷III)Music

Opera at Music Hall：1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241–2742. http://www.cityopera.com.

Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723–1182 for more information. http://www.chamberoch.com. Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381–3300. Regular season runs

September through May at Music Hall and in summer at Riverbend.

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http://www.symphony.org/home.asp.

College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known Lasalle Quartet，CCM’s Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I. D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556–4183.

http://www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.

Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover

(price

difference).

Big

name

shows

all

summer

long!

Phone:232–6220.

http:///www.riverbendmusic.com.

1. Which number should you call if you want to see an opera? A. 241–2742. C. 381–3300.

B. 723–1182. D. 232–6220.

2. When can you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra? A. February.

B. May.

C. August.

D. November.

3. Where can student go for free performances with their I.D. cards? A. Music Hall.

B. Memorial Hall.

D. Riverbend Music Theater.

C. Patricia Cobbett Theater.

4. How is Riverbend Music Theater different from the other places? A. It has seats in the open air. B. It gives shows all year round. C. It offers membership discounts. D. It presents famous musical works. 【答案】

【语篇解读】文章是一篇广告类短文。共介绍了五个与音乐有关的活动，包括举办的地点、举办时间、活动内容和联系方式等。

1. A 【解析】细节理解题。根据opera定位到第一个活动，第一个活动的联系电话是241-2742，选A。 2. B 【解析】细节理解题。根据Chamber Orchestra定位到第二个活动，根据＂which offers several

concerts from March through June＂可知，活动举办时间是3月到6月，故选B。

3. C 【解析】 细节理解题。根据with their I.D. cards定位到第四个活动中的＂Students with I.D.

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cards can attend the events for free.＂和 usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater可知答案，故选C。

4. A 【解析】推理判断题。根据Riverbend Music Theater定位到最后一个活动，根据＂Large outdoor

theater with the closest seats＂可知，Riverbend Music Theater是一个露天剧院，不同的座位，其价格也是不同的，由此可知，Riverbend Music Theater的座位是在室外的；根据＂all summer long!＂排除B；C项和D项在最后一个活动中没被提到。故选A。 II. 完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

体裁 记叙文 话题 父亲的一次钢琴表演经历 词数 320 难度 ★★★☆☆ 建议时间 17分钟 (2014·福建)From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital 36 I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I ___37___ ask my father if I could skip the recital ＂just this once＂. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) 38 about build self-confidence and working toward a 39 .

So it was with really great 40 that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ___41___ my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt 42 rising to play the piano in his very first recital.

My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t ___43___ lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, 44 too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t 45 there. When he retired three years ago, he 46 his church music director to take him as a student.

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he 47 stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the 48 ? I worried, remembering those split seconds 49 ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would 50 . But then came the beautiful melody(旋律), from the 51 fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I 52 he had been doing what music teachers always stress: ___53___ the music and pretend the others aren’t there.

＂I’m 54 of him for starting something new at his age,＂ I said to my son Jeff. ＂Yeah, and doing it so 55 ,＂ Jeff added.

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