2014-2015年選修6-Module-4-Music語篇提能練習(xí)題及答案解析6份4-3.doc

語 篇 提 能閱讀理解AAmericans have contributed to many art forms，but jazz，a type of music，is one that was not started in the United States. Blacks, who sang and played the music of their homeland, created jazz.Jazz is a mixture of the music of Africa, the work songs the slaves sang and religious music. Improvisation(即席創(chuàng)作) is an important part of jazz. This means that the musicians make the music up as they go along, or create the music on the spot. This is why a jazz song might sound a little different each time it is played.Jazz bands formed in the late 1800s. They played in bars and clubs in many towns and cities of the south, especially in New Orleans. New Orleans is an international seaport, and people from all over the world came to New Orleans to hear jazz.Jazz became more and more popular. By the 1920s, jazz was popular all over the United States. By the 1940s，you could hear jazz not only in clubs and bars，but in concert halls as well. Today, people from all over the world play jazz. Jazz musicians from the United States, Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe meet and share their music at festivals on every continent. In this way jazz continues to grow and change.1What can be the best title for the passage?AAmerican Art Forms.BThe Development of Jazz.CThe Music of Black Americans.DThe Birthplace of Jazz.2Which of the following is TRUE?AJazz is now popular all over the world.BJazz is now a kind of religious music.CJazz is now played only in bars and clubs.DJazz is now played in the same way as before.3From the text it can be inferred that _.ANew Orleans is the place where jazz was first producedBthe American people are all jazz loversCjazz is merely sung by the black when workDjazz may become more popular as time goes on4It took about _ years to make jazz popular in the United States.A200 B120C80 D40答案與解析：1解析：主旨大意題?？v觀全文，本文主要是對爵士樂的產(chǎn)生及其發(fā)展作了一個簡單的介紹。答案：B2解析：細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段第四句“Today, people from all over the world play jazz”可知。 答案：A3解析：細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。根據(jù)原文最后一段最后一句話可知。答案：D4解析：推理判斷題。由兩個關(guān)鍵詞“Jazz bands formed in the late 1800s”和“By the 1920s, jazz was popular all over the United States.”可推算出。答案：BBGood evening. Tonights broadcast brings together music from different corners of the world. The records we have chosen for you are from classical(古典的) Western music, Indian music, pop and a Negro spiritual. In this broadcast we shall study the language of music. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. You will hear a Beethoven piece, a composition(樂曲) for the sitar(錫塔琴), and songs sung by a pop group and some black Americans. It will be natural if you like one more than the others. I shall be trying to explain why they are all good music.The feeling in each of these four musical compositions is sadness. You can find sadness in words, in paintings and in music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The muses were goddesses(女神) of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but uses sounds differently. In the spiritual and the pop song you will hear voices. The words are part of the musical composition. In the other pieces you will hear only the piano or the sitar. I will comment (評論) after each record is played. Music is now heard everywhere, in shops and buses and at home. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another bad.5The underlined word “spiritual” in Paragraph 1 probably means _.Asong Bpoem Csentence Darticle6The first paragraph in this article mainly shows us _.Athat music is popular in the world Bsome American songsCsome Beethoven piano piecesDwhy people like music7The feeling of the famous musical compositions of the world given in the text is _.Ahappiness BsadnessCstrangeness Dsurprise8The writer wishes us to spend time and energies in _.Astudying and know more about musicBsinging more popular songs in the worldChearing more pop musical compositions in the worldDwriting more encouraging compositions答案與解析：5解析：推理判斷題。根據(jù)The records we have chosen for you are from classical Western music, Indian music, pop and a Negro spiritual.可以知道a Negro spiritual是與classical Western music, Indian music相并列的，據(jù)此可推出spiritual指的是一種音樂，因此選A。答案：A6解析：推理判斷題。根據(jù)Tonights broadcast brings together music from different corners of the world.可以知道，世界各地的人們都喜歡音樂。答案：A7解析：細(xì)節(jié)