2018_2019学年高中英语Module4Music单元质量检测(四)外研版

单元质量检测(四)

(时间：100分钟满分：120分)

Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

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。

A

“Hey, how are you doing? I’m Courtney. What grade are you in? What’s your favorite book? Elephant and Piggy?Yeah, I got it.”

If you thought you’d walked into a library with a greeting like that, you wouldn’t be too far off. In fact, you’ve entered the workplace of Courtney Holmes, the Storybook Barber.

Two years ago, Dubuque, Iowa, held its first yearly Back to School Bash, offering needy families an opportunity to learn about free resources in the community (社区). Holmes agreed to participate. Saturday was his busiest haircutting day, but he chose to donate his time and give free haircuts to underprivileged kids so they’d look sharp on that first day of classes. But then he had a lightbulb moment (突然醒悟的一瞬)：“The kids should earn their free haircut by having to read a book to me.” Holmes said.

The idea was so popular that he continued it for the next two years. Five­ to ten­year­old boys would grab a favorite book, settle into the barber chair, and read aloud while Holmes cut their hair. If they stuttered (结结巴巴地说) over a word, Holmes was there to help.

After the haircut, they’d review the book, from the c haracters and vocabulary to the themes — just like in school, only more fun.

Holmes admits he, too, benefits from the free snip­and­reads.

“There was this seven­year­old Bob, who struggled through his book, stuttering over words even though he didn’t have a stutter，” said Holmes. He had the boy take the book home and practice. When the child came back a few days later, “He read it with no problems. That inspires (鼓舞) me.”

Holmes and his family have recently moved from Dubuque to a Chicago suburb. When they get settled, he plans to continue his role as the Storybook Barber. “The way the world is today with guns and violence，” he says, “it’s a safe haven (避风港) for the kids, to come to the barbershop and read books.”

篇解读：美国爱荷华州迪比克市的一名理发师为那些给他阅读故事的孩子们提供免费理发服

务。

1．What does the underlined word “underprivileged” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Unruly. B．Poor.

C．Intelligent. D．Unusual.

解析：选B 词义猜测题。由画线词前的“... offering needy families an opportunity to learn about free resources”和“donate his time and give free haircuts”可知，Holmes选择给贫困的儿童免费理发。由此可推断，underprivileged意为“贫困的，贫穷的”。

2．What did Holmes say about Bob?

A．He fired his enthusiasm.

B．He gifted him a new book.

C．He preferred to read alone.

D．He had a language disability.

解析：选A 推理判断题。由倒数第二段的描述以及“That inspires me”可知，这个七岁男孩的变化极大鼓舞了Holmes。

3．What can we infer about Holmes from the last paragraph?

A．He showed great concern for kids.

B．He faced serious money problems.

C．He had an excellent sense of humor.

D．He built a shelter for homeless kids.

解析：选A 推理判断题。由最后一段中的“The way the w orld is today with guns and violence”和“it’s a safe haven for the kids, to come to the barbershop and read books”可知，Holmes特别关爱孩子们。

4．What is the best title for the text?

A．Great minds inspire great deeds

B．A new way to make reading fun

C．An unusual library in Dubuque, Iowa

D．Barber gets kids reading with free haircuts

解析：选D 标题归纳题。通读全文可知，本文主要讲述了美国爱荷华州迪比克市的一名理发师为那些给他阅读故事的孩子们提供免费理发服务的故事，D项作标题能概括文章主旨。

B

I got a piano when I was 26 years old.I had been longing to play the piano since I was a little girl. My grandmother had a piano in her house.But she gave it away to my aunt when I was still little. After I got married, someone offered a piano to us for ＄280.We bought it immediately, even though it meant that we had to live off

our food storage for a couple of months.

Paying a teacher was out of the question, so I set out to teach myself the piano.First, I set out to learn to read music.I got any music I could find and played songs by looking at notes.The problem was that I couldn’t play any piece of music if I didn’t look at notes.

I had always thought that playing the piano by ear was reserved for a few select pianists who were born with the gift.However, what a pianist told me changed my opinion.One day, I went to a concert.Luckily，after the concert, I could talk with the pianist for a while.He told me that everyone could play the piano by ear if he or she tried hard enough.He meant that to learn to play the piano by ear, I would have to practice it.

So I started playing jingles (短曲) from advertisements.Before long, I was able to pick out simple tunes of songs that were very familiar to me, and even to add accompaniments (伴奏)．When I started practicing playing by ear, I also realized that my sight of reading skills improved greatly.It’s because rather than reading every note, I was able to put my fingers where they should be according to the feel of the music.

Remember，you can learn to play the piano by ear, too.

语篇解读：作者讲述了她学习弹钢琴的经历。

5．After the author got married, she________.

A．bought a new piano

B．lived a very rich life

C．still longed to play the piano

D．had no time for her hobbies

解析：选C 推理判断题。根据第一段的最后一句可推断，作者结婚后仍然想学习弹钢琴。

6．What was the problem when the author played the piano at the beginning?

A．She had a very poor memory.

B．She couldn’t read music well.

C．She couldn’t find much music to play.

D．She couldn’t play music without notes.

解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第二段的最 …… 此处隐藏：19361字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……