Unit1 Welcome to the unit & Reading—Pre-reading课时练习(含答案)
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1、Welcome to the unit & ReadingPre- reading .阅读理解 A Too Much Happiness was written by Alice Munro,winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker,The Atlantic
2、Monthly,and other publications,and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. The main character is Sophia Kovalevsky,a great Russian mathematician,writer and advocator(拥护者) of womens rights in the late nineteenth century.After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovalevsky in Riviera,she t
3、ravels in Europe,ending up in Sweden,where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.The book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden. The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual woman to achieve success and happiness.However,when she i
4、s going to die,Sophia says “too much happiness”I think its irony.As reading the story,she has too many mental problems.First,as a woman mathematician, she was born at a wrong time.She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love,called “a white marriage”She explained that “not a young Russian wom
5、an who was unmarried could leave the country”She sacrificed her marriage to seek her career. Furthermore, when she sees a man who looks like Maxsim in the station, she says to herself, “Of course,it would not be Maxsim,what could he be doing in Paris?” She doesnt want to face the fact because she do
6、esnt want to lose her hope.She believes they will marry in spring.And in her letter to Julia she says,“It is to be happiness after all,happiness after all.Happiness.” She is cheating herself.In fact,the man does not want to marry her,and the happiness she expected doesnt take place at all. Finally,I
7、 conclude that the end must be a tragedy(悲剧)From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy and threatening.“One of us will die this year.” “Because we have gone walking in a graveyard(墓地) on the first day of the New Year.” and “a black cat across their path” all reflect it will be a bad ending.N
8、ot because she has some problems with her lung,but because her life does not bring her happiness with some disharmonious things happening. 语篇解读 本文是一篇说明文,主要介绍了爱丽丝 门罗的作品Too Much Happiness。 1According to the passage,which of the following is TRUE? ASophia was born at a wrong time and was mentally ill.
9、BWomen were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophias time. CSophia loved travelling around Europe to meet different people. DUnmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time. 答案 B 解析 推理判断题。根据第三段倒数第二句中的“not a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country”可知,妇女的出行在当时是受限制
10、的,由此可推知,妇女 在当时受到不公平的对待。 2What can we conclude from Sophias experience? AIts hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time. BRussian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage. CMarried women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century. DS
11、eeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end. 答案 A 解析 推理判断题。根据第三段第一句“The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual woman to achieve success and happiness.”可推知,在当时的欧洲,知识女性要想获得成功是 很不容易的。 3The underlined phrase “the fact” in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the
12、fact that . Aher husband refuses to divorce Bshe cant teach in university Cshe falls in love with Maxsim DMaxsim doesnt want to marry her 答案 D 解析 词义猜测题。 根据第四段最后一句“In fact, the man does not want to marry her.”可知, Maxsim 并不想娶她。 4In a newspaper,this passage is most probably in the section of . Aenterta
13、inment Btravel Ccareer Dculture 答案 D 解析 文章出处题。文章主要介绍爱丽丝 门罗的作品 Too Much Happiness,所以最有可能出 现在报纸的文化栏目里。 B (2018 浙江) In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain.People had been writing novels for a centurymost experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1
14、719but nobody wanted to do it professionally.The steam- powered printing press was still in its early stages;the literacy(识字) rate in England was under 50%.Many works of fiction appeared without the names of the authors,often with something like “By a lady”Novels,for the most part,were looked upon a
15、s silly,immoral or just plain bad. In 1870,when Dickens died,the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher,famous and beloved,who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and their readership and whose charactersfrom Oliver Twist to Tiny Timwere held up as moral
16、touchstones.Today Dickens greatness is unchallenged.Removing him from the pantheon(名人堂) of English literature would make about as much sense as the Louvre selling off the Mona Lisa. How did Dickens get to the top?For all the feelings readers attach to stories,literature is a numbers game,and the tes
17、t of time is extremely difficult to pass.Some 60,000 novels were published during the Victorian age, from 1837 to 1901; today a casual reader might be able to name a half- dozen of them.Its partly true that Dickens style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.Its partly that his writi
18、ngs rode a wave of social, political and scientific progress.But its also that he rewrote the culture of literature and put himself at the center.No one will ever know what mix of talent,ambition,energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.But as the 200th anniversary of his birth appro
19、aches,it is possibleand important for our own cultureto understand how he made himself a lasting one. 语篇解读 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了英国著名作家查尔斯 狄更斯及其作品是如何 奠定他在英国文学中的地位的。 5Which of the following best describes British novels in the 18th century? AThey were difficult to understand. BThey were popular among the ric
20、h. CThey were seen as nearly worthless. DThey were written mostly by women. 答案 C 解析 细节理解题。 根据第一段最后一句“Novels, for the most part, were looked upon as silly, immoral or just plain bad.”可知,那时多半的小说被看作是没头没脑的、有悖道德的或糟糕透 顶的。故 C 项“它们被看作几乎是没有价值的”与原文相符。 6Dickens is compared with the Mona Lisa in the text to str
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