专题09+节假日活动（真题训练）-备战2018年高考英语阅读理解话题分类解读与训练 12页

专题09 节假日活动 真题训练 Passage1（2017年·新课标全国I卷）‎ 题型 体裁 话题 难度 建议时间 阅读理解 ‎ 说明文 国际爵士日 ‎ ‎★★★☆☆‎ ‎6分钟 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 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 ‎【话题解读】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。‎ ‎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。‎ Passage2（2015年·福建卷）‎ 题型 体裁 话题 难度 建议时间 阅读理解 说明文 ‎ 与美食有关的节日 ‎★★★☆☆‎ ‎6分钟 Food festivals around the world Stilton Cheese Rolling May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese, or go into their competitors’ lane(赛道). Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos(disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones). All the competitors are served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.‎ Fiery Foods Festival — The Hottest Festival on Earth Every year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction — food that is not just spicy (辛辣), but hot enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival which is held over a period of three days every March. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper — officially the hottest pepper in the world — or any one of the thousands of products that are on show. But one thing’s for sure — if you don’t like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isn’t for you!‎ La Tomatina — The World’s Biggest Food Fight On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts La Tomatina — the world’s largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the week’s events. The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes — official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.‎ The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends again — and for a much-needed wash!‎ ‎56.In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must 　____　　　.‎ A. wear various formal clothes B. roll a wooden cheese in their own lane C. kick or throw their cheese D. use a real cheese weighing about four kilos ‎57.Where is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival held?‎ A. In New Mexico. B. In the Caribbean. ‎ C. In Australia. D. In China.‎ ‎58.The celebration of La Tomatina lasts_________.‎ A. three days B. seven days ‎ C. less than three days D. more than seven days ‎59.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?‎ A. The chief prize for the Stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine.‎ B. More than 10,000 Chinese take part in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.‎ C. Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.‎ D. An exciting tomato battle takes place at the beginning of La Tomatina.‎ ‎【文章大意】本文介绍了几个与美食有关的节日。‎ ‎57.A 【解析】考查细节理解。根据第二段第一句话中的"New Mexico"可知答案。‎ ‎58.B 【解析】考查细节理解。根据第三段中的"A week-long celebration"可知答案。‎ ‎59.C 【解析】考查细节理解。根据文章第二段中的"food that is not just spicy(辛辣)"和"or any one of the thousands of products that are on show"可知答案。‎ Passage3（2014年·陕西卷）‎ 题型 体裁 话题 难度 建议时间 阅读理解 夹叙夹议文 ‎ 建议取消学校运动日 ‎★★★☆☆‎ ‎6分钟 One afternoon last week, I saw three tearful children from my son's school being comforted by teachers. That morning, my 11-year-old had stomach pains, retching(干呕) into a bowl. Talking to other mothers later, I heard about other children with stomachache or difficulty sleeping the night before.‎ What caused so much pain? Sports day. Sports day might be necessary at a highly-competitive independent school, but not at a village primary school. For the children who can fly like the wind, sports day causes no problem. For those who are overweight or just not good at sport, it is a nightmare(噩梦). Even for those who enjoy running but fall halfway down the track in front of the entire school and their parents, it can prove a disaster.‎ Why do we put our children through this annual suffering? Some may say competition is character building; or it's taking part, not winning, that's important; or that it is a tradition of school life. I just felt great pity for those children in tears or in pain.‎ Team games at the end of sports day produced some close races, wild enthusiasm, lots of shouting — and were fun to watch. More importantly, the children who were not so fast or quick at passing the ball were hidden a little from everyone's eyes. Some of them also had the thrill of being on the winning side.‎ I wish that sports day could be abandoned and replaced with some other less-competitive event. Perhaps an afternoon of team games, with a few races for those who want them, would be less stressful for the children and a lot more fun to watch.‎ ‎57.What can we learn about the author's son from Paragraph 1?‎ A. He talked with some mothers. ‎ B. He comforted his classmates.‎ C. He had difficulty in sleeping. ‎ D. He suffered from stomachache.‎ ‎58.Sports day is still an annual event in this school probably because_________.‎ A. this is an independent school ‎ B.it is a tradition of the school C.it helps children lose weight ‎ D. children enjoy watching sports ‎59.What does the author think about team games?‎ A. They should include more stressful races.‎ B. They are acceptable to different children.‎ C. They should be abandoned at primary schools.‎ D. They are less fun for those who love running.‎ ‎60.What is the author's attitude towards sports day?‎ A. Critical. B. Neutral. ‎ C. Positive. D. Ambiguous.‎ ‎【文章大意】这是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者的孩子以及他的同学在学校的运动日中出现了身体不适，所以作者建议取消运动日或用其他竞争性较小的活动来取代它。‎ ‎57.D 【解析】考查细节理解。根据文章第一段中的"my 11-year-old had stomach pains"以及"I heard about other children with stomachache"可判断出，作者的儿子胃痛。故答案为D。‎ ‎58.B 【解析】考查细节理解。根据文章第三段中的"or that it is a tradition of school life"可以判断出学校的运动日是一项传统的活动。故答案为B。‎ ‎60.A 【解析】考查推理判断。根据整篇文章来判断，作者的儿子由于学校的运动日而出现了不适，所以作者建议采用不同的锻炼方式，如team games，这样就能让不同的孩子都可以接受，所以作者对于学校的运动日是批判性的态度。故答案为A。‎ Passage4（2013年·新课标卷I）‎ 题型 体裁 话题 难度 建议时间 阅读理解 调查报告 ‎ 撒谎说他们读过某本书的原因 ‎★★★☆☆‎ ‎6分钟 It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, "a brilliantly(精彩地)written book". However, he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.‎ And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s "Report on Guilty Secrets", Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.‎ The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman Melville.‎ Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to "impress" someone they were speaking to.‎ ‎ This could be tricky if the conversation became more in-depth!‎ But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).‎ ‎64.How did the author find his friend a book liar?‎ A. By judging his manner of speaking. ‎ B. By looking into his background.‎ C. By mentioning a famous name. ‎ D. By discussing the book itself.‎ ‎65.Which of the following is a "guilty secret" according to the World Book Day report?‎ A. Charles Dickens is very low on the top-ten list.‎ B.42% of people pretended to have read 1984.‎ C. The author admitted having read 9 books.‎ D. Dreams From My Father is hardly read.‎ ‎66.By lying about reading, a person hopes to 　　　.‎ A. control the conversation ‎ B. appear knowledgeable C. learn about the book ‎ D. make more friends ‎67.What is the author’s attitude to 58% of readers?‎ A. Favorable. B. Uncaring. ‎ C. Doubtful. D. Friendly.‎ ‎【文章大意】世界读书日的一个调查报告表明：有些人撒谎说他们读过某本书，其实他们根本没有读。他们撒谎主要是想给别人留下深刻的印象。‎ ‎64.D 【解析】考查细节理解。根据第一段的倒数第二句可知，作者与朋友进一步交流对奥巴马所写的书的看法。根据朋友所说的话，作者断定他根本没有读过这本书。‎ ‎66.B 【解析】考查推理判断。根据文章第四段的第一句可知，撒谎说读过某本书的人是为了给别人留下深刻的印象，由此可推知B项正确。‎ ‎67.C 【解析】考查态度推断。根据文章第五段中的"am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so"可知，作者对58%的人说的话感到吃惊，即他对这些话的真实性表示怀疑。‎ Passage4（2013年·大纲全国卷 ‎ 题型 体裁 话题 难度 建议时间 阅读理解 应用文 ‎ ‎ 英国爱丁堡艺术节 ‎★★★☆☆‎ ‎6分钟 In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival(节日) of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.‎ It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras (交响乐团). It became a fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.‎ At the same time, the "Fringe" appeared as a challenge(挑战) to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.‎ Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities ‎ of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.‎ Today the "Fringe", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.‎ A paid administrator(行政人员) was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.‎ ‎40.What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?‎ A. To bring Europe together again. ‎ B. To honor heroes of World War Ⅱ.‎ C. To introduce young theatre groups. ‎ D. To attract great artists from Europe.‎ ‎41.Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?‎ A. They owned a public house there.‎ B. They came to take up a challenge.‎ C. They thought they were also famous.‎ D. They wanted to take part in the festival.‎ ‎42.Who joined the "Fringe" after it appeared?‎ A. Popular writers. ‎ B. University students.‎ C. Artists from around the world. ‎ D. Performers of music and dance.‎ ‎43.We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival________.‎ A. has become a non-official event ‎ B. has gone beyond an art festival C. gives shows all year round ‎ D. keeps growing rapidly ‎【文章大意】本文介绍了英国爱丁堡艺术节。‎ ‎40.A 【解析】考查细节理解。由第一段最后一句可知，举办爱丁堡艺术节的目的是让欧洲人民在二战后团结起来。‎ ‎41.D 【解析】考查细节理解。由第三段第二句可知，8个剧组于1947年在未受到邀请的情况下参加了这次音乐节，他们是带着每个人都有权表演的信念来的。D项符合文意。‎ ‎43.D 【解析】考查推理判断。由倒数第二段可知，该节日曾经不受承认，但现在已经成为持续21天、每天都有约1,500种表演的盛大的艺术节。‎