Music is an international language.The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.
Popular music in America is what every student likes.Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class,after class and at lunch.Students with cars buy large speakers(扬声器)and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work.They also listen to the news about sports,the weather,politics,and activities of the American people.But most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money.They make a CD or tape which 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 comes to the singer.Wherever the singer goes,all the young people want to meet him or her.Now the singer has become a national star.
Besides pop music,there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans.One is called folk music.It tells stories about the common life of Americans.The other is called western or country music.This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.Today,any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music.Music for instruments is called orchestra music,such as the symphonies(交响乐)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?
A.Popular music is what everyone enjoys.
B.The wonderful songs are popular with the world people.
C.When music is played,it seems as if it were speaking to us.
D.Music is too popular for everyone to be able to play it.
2.What can we know about music and people in America?
A.Adult drivers listen to news as well as music when they drive to work.
B.Adult drivers never listen to music when they drive to work.
C.Student drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the streets.
D.Students always listen to music before class,in class and after class.
3.Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A.All people in America like popular music.
B.Pop singers can get all the money from the tapes.
C.Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music in China.
D.Now,western or country music is a little different from its beginning.
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A.International language. B.Music in America.
C.Pop music. D.Music listeners.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
Music is an international language.The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.
Popular music in America is what every student likes.Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class,after class and at lunch.Students with cars buy large speakers(扬声器)and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work.They also listen to the news about sports,the weather,politics,and activities of the American people.But most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money.They make a CD or tape which 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 comes to the singer.Wherever the singer goes,all the young people want to meet him or her.Now the singer has become a national star.
Besides pop music,there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans.One is called folk music.It tells stories about the common life of Americans.The other is called western or country music.This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.Today,any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music.Music for instruments is called orchestra music,such as the symphonies(交响乐)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?
A.Popular music is what everyone enjoys.
B.The wonderful songs are popular with the world people.
C.When music is played,it seems as if it were speaking to us.
D.Music is too popular for everyone to be able to play it.
2.What can we know about music and people in America?
A.Adult drivers listen to news as well as music when they drive to work.
B.Adult drivers never listen to music when they drive to work.
C.Student drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the streets.
D.Students always listen to music before class,in class and after class.
3.Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A.All people in America like popular music.
B.Pop singers can get all the money from the tapes.
C.Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music in China.
D.Now,western or country music is a little different from its beginning.
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A.International language. B.Music in America.
C.Pop music. D.Music listeners.
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_____ is a fact that English is being accepted as an international language.
A. There B. This C. That D. It
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There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign(手势) language.
When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using body language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”
Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.
Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign(手势) for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.
Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.
The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.
How many hand signs do you use every day?
1.Which of the following about sign language is TRUE?
A. It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.
B. It is a way to express one’s ideas without words.
C. It is only used by the deaf.
D. It can be heard.
2.If you want to express the idea that “I am very friendly” to someone, you will ______.
A. raise your hand
B. put one hand onto the other
C. smile to the person
D. make a roof with your hands
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Hand signs instead of finger signs are used every day.
B. There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA.
C. The French priest Charles invented sign language.
D. Even babies are using sign language.
4.The passage is mainly about ______.
A. an introduction to sign language
B. the importance of sign language
C. a famous priest in France
D. how to use sign language
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There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign language.
When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”
Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.
Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.
Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.
The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.
How many hand signs do you use every day?
1.Which of the following about sign language is TRUE?
A. It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.
B. It is a way to express one’s ideas without words.
C. It is only used by the deaf.
D. It can be heard.
2.If you want to express the idea that “I am very friendly” to someone, you will ______.
A. raise your hand
B. put one hand onto the other
C. smile to the person
D. make a roof with your hands
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Hand signs instead of finger signs are used everyday.
B. There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA.
C. The French priest Charles invented sign language.
D. Even babies are using sign language.
4.The passage is mainly about ______.
A. an introduction to sign language
B. the importance of sign language
C. a famous priest in France
D. how to use sign language
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Hit songs are big business, so there is an incentive for composers to get those ingredients that might increase their chances of success. But songs are complex mixtures of features. How to analyse them is made more difficult by the fact that what is popular changes over time. But Natalia Komarova, a mathematician at the University of California, Irvine, thinks she has cracked the problem. Her computer analysis suggests that the songs currently preferred by consumers are danceable, party-like numbers. Unfortunately, those actually writing songs prefer something else.
She and her colleagues collected information on music released in Britain between 1985 and 2015. They looked in music “metadata (元数据)’’ that are used by music lovers and are often tapped into by academics. Metadata are information about the nature of a song that can give listeners an idea of what that song is like before they hear it. Dr. Komarova and her team were presented with more than 500,000 songs to detect numerous musical features. The team fed all of this information into a computer and compared the features of songs that had made it into the charts (排行榜) with those of songs that had not.
Overall, the team’s results suggested that chart successes were happier and brighter than the average songs released during the same year. Chart toppers were also more likely than average songs to have been performed by women.
Dr. Komarova used these results to train her computer to try to predict whether a randomly presented song was likely to have been a hit in a given year. The machine correctly predicted success 75% of the time, compared with that from the music database.
Content isn’t everything. As might be expected, circumstances, particularly any fame already attached to a recording artist or artists, had an effect too. But not a huge one. That suggests that musical fame is actually attached to talent, rather than to advertising. And this is a lesson for an industry that some believe is not connected enough to talent.
1.Why is it difficult to tell what makes good music?
A. What people think is popular changes with the time.
B. What some people think popular isn’t for other people.
C. No one cares about what makes popular music.
D. It’s difficult to know the features of popular music.
2.What can we infer from the results of the team’s research?
A. The content of good music can be typed into computers.
B. Good music has the quality to make people think about life.
C. Happier and brighter songs are more likely to make the charts.
D. Analysis can decide in advance whether a song will be popular.
3.What does the underlined word “incentive” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Expression. B. Motivation.
C. Exhibition. D. Division.
4.What’s the relationship between musical fame and the singer?
A. A famous singer will make any music he/she sings popular.
B. Good music depends on whether the singer is widely advertised.
C. A good female singer can make an average song popular.
D. Talent is more important than fame to make a song popular.
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用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空:
1.Jay Chou ____________________ music and has written and sung a lot of popular songs such as Blue and White Porcelain《青花瓷》and East Wind Broken《东风破》.
2.Studies show that people ____________________ suffer from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours.
3.____________________, senior school students should take part in all kinds of after-school
activities in their spare time.
4. It is essential for students to ____________________ classes at school.
5. Oliver Twist __________ child poverty _______________ the public, and for this reason alone it is a very important novel.
6.Shocked by the scene, the warden who was strong and healthy had to ____________________ the wall for support.
7.It is the protection for the trees that really matters, ___________________ how many trees are planted every year.
8.There is a widely held belief that the tourism is ____________________because of the economic recession(衰退).
9.China is working ____________________ the other countries in international affairs.
10.China ____________________ the giant panda.
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Attitude is an internal state that influences the choices of personal action made by the individual. Some researchers consider that attitudes come from differences between beliefs and ideas; others believe that attitudes come from emotional states. Here, we focus on the effects of attitudes upon behavior, that is, upon the choices of action made by the individual.
The kinds of actions taken by human beings are obviously influenced greatly by attitudes. Whether one listens to classical music or rock, whether one obeys the speed limit while driving, whether one encourages one’s husband or wife to express his or her own ideas—all are influenced by attitudes. These internal states are acquired throughout life from situations one is faced with in the home, in the streets, and in the school.
Of course, the course of action chosen by an individual in any situation will be largely determined by the particulars of that situation. An individual who has a strong attitude of obeying laws may drive too fast when he is in a hurry and no police cars in sight. A child who has a strong attitude of honesty may steal a penny when she thinks no one will notice. But the internal state which remains unchanged over a period of time, and which makes the individual behave regularly in a variety of situations, is what is meant by an attitude.
Attitudes are learned in a variety of ways. They can result from single incidents, as when an attitude toward snakes is acquired by an experience in childhood at the sudden movement of a snake. They can result from the individual’s experiences of success and pleasure, as when someone acquires a positive attitude toward doing crossword puzzles by being able to complete some of them. And frequently, they are learned by copying other people’s behavior, as when a child learns how to behave toward foreigners by observing the actions of his parents. Regardless of these differences, there is something in common in the learning and modification(修正)of attitudes.
1. According to the passage, attitudes _________.
A.come from different situations in one’s life |
B.are largely affected by one’s behavior |
C.remain unchanged in one’s daily life |
D.could be chosen according to one’s will |
2.The author uses the examples in Paragraph 3 to show _________.
A.people often make mistakes when they are not noticed |
B.people with good attitudes may sometimes do bad deeds |
C.particulars of a situation may influence an individual’s action |
D.an individual may change his or her attitude fairly easily |
3.Which of the following is TRUE about the learning of attitudes?
A.Attitudes are only learned through one’s success. |
B.Attitudes learned in danger will last longer. |
C.Copying others behavior is not a good idea. |
D.Attitudes can be learned from one’s parents. |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Differences of Attitudes. |
B.Nature of Attitude. |
C.Choices of Attitudes. |
D.Modification of Attitude. |
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The Red Cross is an international organization which cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured in an earthquake, and a family in India that lost their home in a storm may all be aided by the Red Cross.
The Red Cross exists in almost every country around the world. The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent, the Red Mogen Daid, the Sun, and the Red Lion. All of these agencies share a common goal of trying to help people in need.
The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and wounded during a war started with Jean Henri Dunant. In 1859, he observed how people were suffering on a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people regardless of which side they were fighting for. The most important result of his work was an international treaty called the Geneva Convention(日内瓦协定). It protects prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and other citizens during a war.
The American Red Cross was set up by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of services for the public, such as helping people in need, teaching first aid and providing blood.
1.A good title for this passage is ________.
A.People in Need of Help | B.Safety and Protection |
C.The International Red Cross | D.Forming an Organization to Help People |
2.The word “aided ” in the first paragraph means ________.
A.needed | B.helped | C.caught | D.protected |
3.The author really tries to make the reader see that this organization ________.
A.costs very little money | B.works in many nations |
C.teaches first aid if necessary | D.is called the Sun |
4.We may draw a conclusion (下结论)that ________ during a war.
A.the Red Cross only protects the wounded |
B.the Red Cross only helps prisoners of war |
C.the Red Cross only helps citizens |
D.the Red Cross helps all the people in need no matter which side they are fighting for |
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
They say that ___ Chinese language is particularly difficult for ___ European.
A.the; an | B./ ; the | C.the; a | D./ ; a |
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A sign is another kind of language. Here are some of them that you see on the roads.
Number one is a sign with the number thirty on it. When drivers see this sign, they must not go at more than thirty kilometers an hour. We see this sign when we are getting near a town. Number two is a sign that we’re near a crossing. We must drive carefully. Number three is a sign that there is a bend in the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully. It is not safe to go round a bend very fast. Number four is a sign that there is another road coming in from the right. There is a junction at this place. Number five is a sign that there is a hill and number six is a sign that the road gets narrow. Drivers must go slowly and carefully. Number seven has the word “SCHOOL” on it. This is a sign that there is a school at the side of the street or the road. Perhaps there are children going to or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly. Number eight is a sign with the letter “P” on it. The letter “P” means “Parking”. At some places, there’re the signs “No parking” or “No waiting”. If a driver leaves his car near one of these signs, a policeman may come and write down the number of his car.
61. At the places where you see Sign 1, ________.
A. you are already out of a town
B. you still have thirty kilometers to go
C. there must be a town thirty kilometers away
D. there must be many houses and buildings not far away
62. There stands Sign 2 near a place where________.
A. two roads cross B. people can cross the road
C. the roads get narrow D. there are no traffic lights
63. You have to drive not only slowly but also carefully when you find________.
A. each of the eight signs B. either of Signs 2 and 3
C. all of Signs 3, 5, 6 and 7 D. any of Signs 3, 5, 6 and 7
64. A driver can leave his car________.
A. near Sign 8 at any time
B. near a sign with “No parking” on it
C. near a sign with “No waiting” if there’re no police there
D. near a sign with “P” on it in the daytime
65. People put these signs on the roads to________.
A. show drivers the way B. stop cars going too fast
C. make driving even safer D. learn another kind of language
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