Unit 5 Music
Grammar
Ⅰ用“介词+which/whom”结构完成下列句子
1.My father works in a car factory, ____________ the workers are well paid.
2.The book is enjoyed by adults as well as children, ____________ it was specially written.
3.The death of her son was an experience ____________ Mary never fully recovered.
4.Zhu Zhiwen is a well?known singer __________ we are waiting.
5.In our class, all the fifty students took part in the final exam, only one ____________ didn't pass the exam.
6.The man ____________ I share the room is a young teacher fresh from college.
Ⅱ用适当的引导词或“介词+关系代词”填空
1.On the graduation day, he received from his father a nice present ____________ a note was attached, saying, “I'm proud of you.”
2.Some football fans,____________ money was a big problem, could not afford to go to the football court to see their stars playing.
3.The stories about Long March,____________________ this is one example, are well written.
4.We can hear sound because our earth is surrounded by thick air _________ sound can travel.
5.Last summer holiday we visited the West Lake, _________ Hangzhou is famous in the world.
6.The hiding man made a hole in the wall ________________ he could observe the outside.
7.She was educated at Beijing University,after ____________ she went on to have her advanced study abroad.
8.For many cities in the world, there is no room to spread out further, ____________ New York is an example.
9.After graduation, Tony spent four years in college, ____________ time he studied medicine.
10.The little girl is reading a book, ____________ there are many lively pictures.
11.Many people who had seen the film Devil were afraid to go to the dark places when they remembered the scenes ____________ people were eaten by devils.
12.Nowadays, people are willing to go to the restaurant ____________ the food is very safe.
13.Is this the man ____________ house the police found the lost coloured TV?
14.Have you ever dreamed of staging a concert, ________________ thousands of people are applauding and appreciating your music?
15.The villagers dug tunnel ____________they could go to the fields without being found by the Japanese soldiers.
Ⅲ阅读理解
A
Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events—love, sadness, good times, and bad times.It tells real?life stories and sounds the way people really talk.As life becomes more complicated(复杂的), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country and western music, comes from two kinds of music.One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.The other is traditional cowboy music from the West.The singers usually play the guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars.At first city people said country music was low?class.It was popular mostly in the South.But during World War Ⅱ, thousands of southerners went to the north?east and the Midwest to work in the factories.They took their music with them.Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps(军营) in the South.They learned country music.Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people.About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty?four hours a day.English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages.The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world.
1.It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from ________.
A.the north?east and the Midwest
B.factories and army camps in the South
C.the Appalachian Mountains and the West
D.real?life stories in small towns
2.During World War Ⅱ many southerners went to the north?east and the Midwest because ________.
A.they wanted to take music with them
B.they wanted to make other people like country music
C.they wanted to work in the factories there
D.they wanted to make country music popular
3.Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because ________.
A.city people said it was low?class
B.people could sing it in many different languages
C.it started with cowboys and poor southerners
D.it is loved by different kinds of people in the world
B
Do you consider yourself an expert at playing with your food? Even if you can toy with dinner on a higher level, you might be impressed with the work of brothers Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping.Instead of eating their vegetables, these Chinese artists use them to create working musical instruments(乐器).
In the Nans' hands, a lot of carrots hollowed(挖空) out and tied together with leeks become a pan flute(排笛).The brothers can change a sweet potato into a 12?holed ocarina(陶笛) and a yam into a whistle.They carve bamboo shoots—a common ingredient in Asian dishes—into flutes.
Vegetables and music were a large part of the brothers' lives when they were growing up.Their father was a music teacher who raised them on a vegetable farm in central China.He taught them how to play traditional musical instruments and skills they now use to make a living as adults.
Weiping and Weidong appear regularly on Chinese television, playing a wide variety of music on their vegetable instruments.
Each musical appearance takes a lot of preparation.In addition to practising the songs they will play, the brothers also have to make a new set of instruments out of fresh vegetables for every concert.
“The vegetables have to be solid and hard,” Nan Weidong told Reuters.“We can't use vegetables left over for days.They are too soft to be played.”
He also says they choose vegetables with lots of water in them, as those make the best instruments.The brothers' skills are also important to the instruments' sound.“The deeper the hole, the lower the pitch(音高).The shallower the hole, the higher the pitch,” said Nan Weiping.“The size of the holes also matters…to the quality of the sound.”
The brothers didn't say whether they eat their musical creations when the concerts are over.
4.Why do the brothers impress others?
A.They can play with their food.
B.They can play music with vegetables.
C.They can use vegetables as toys.
D.They can perform while eating vegetables.
5.The second paragraph mainly discusses ________.
A.the art of making traditional instruments
B.the different ingredients of Chinese dishes
C.the various vegetables to make instruments
D.the choice of materials for music
6.What is the most important for a vegetable instrument?
A.The depth of the holes in vegetables.
B.The size of the vegetables.
C.The soft but colourful vegetables.
D.The vegetables with a lot of water.
7.What might be the most suitable title for the passage?
A.Vegetable music
B.Light music
C.Farm music
D.Chinese music
Ⅳ读后续写
阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事。
“Leave him alone!” I shouted as I walked into the garden and saw two strong bullies(仗势欺人者) pushing the__deaf__kid around__the__garden. I did not know the kid at all but I knew that we were about the same age, because of his size. The bigger of the two bullies pushed the kid down on the ground. The other bully ran around behind the kid and kicked him as hard as he could in the back. The deaf kid's body started shaking all over and he moved like a ball trying to hide his face. He looked like he was trying to cry.
I ran as fast as I could back through__the__garden__gate and into the thick bushes. I uncovered my home?made bow which I had made out of bamboo and string. I grabbed four__arrows that were also made of bamboo. Then I ran back out the gate with an arrow in hand. One of the boys grabbed his friend and backed off far enough so that the arrow would not hit them. “If you're so brave as to kick him again now,” I said, shaking like__a__leaf. The bigger of the two bullies ran up and kicked the deaf kid in the middle of his back as hard as he could and then he ran out of arrow range again.
The kid then made a sound that I will never forget for as long as I live. It was the__sound like a whale makes when it has been attacked and knows that it is about to die. I fired all four of my arrows at the two bullies as they ran away laughing about what they had done.
I pulled the kid up off the ground and helped him back to his house. When we reached his home his__sister told me that her brother was deaf. I told her that he did make a sound when the bully kicked him in the back. She told me that I must be mistaken because all her brother's vocal__cords had been removed during an experimental surgery.
注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
3. 续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好;
4. 续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
When I was about to leave,…_______________________________________________
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Paragraph 2:
The next day in the garden I was being run after by several bullies.____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案Grammar
Ⅰ.用“介词+which/whom”结构完成下列句子
1.in which 2.for whom 3.from which 4.for whom
5.of whom 6.with whom
Ⅱ.用适当的引导词或“介词+关系代词”填空
1.to which 2.for whom 3.of which/among which 4.through which 5.for which 6.through which
7.which 8.of which 9.during which 10.in which
11.in which/where 12.in which/where
13.in whose 14.at which/where 15.through which
Ⅲ.阅读理解
A
【文章大意】 本文主要介绍了美国的乡村音乐。
1.C 细节理解题。由文章第二段的第二、三句可知,乡村音乐起源于阿巴拉契亚山脉和西部地区。
2.C 细节理解题。 由文章第二段中的 “…to work in the factories.”可知,二战期间很多南方人去东北部和中西部地区是因为他们想到那里的工厂工作。
3.D 推理判断题。由文章最后一段可推断出,乡村音乐目前成为世界上最流行的音乐之一是因为它受到了世界各地人们的喜爱。
B
【文章大意】 本文主要介绍了一对兄弟可以利用蔬菜制作乐器并且演奏的情况。
4.B 细节理解题。第一段和第二段的信息都说明,他们兄弟二人的特殊性在于他们可以利用蔬菜来制作乐器并演出。故选B。
5.C 段落大意题。第二段提到了他们可以利用各种各样的蔬菜来制作乐器的情况。故选C。
6.D 细节理解题。倒数第二段的第一句说明,含水分多的蔬菜是制作乐器最好的材料。故选D。
7.A 主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了中国的一对兄弟可以利用蔬菜来制作乐器并且演出,故选A。
Ⅳ.读后续写
One possible version:
When I was about to leave, the__deaf__kid made one of those hand signs at me. He was very smart but could not say or hear anything. His sister told me that he was saying that he loved me with his hands. I didn't say anything back to her at all because I didn't believe her.
The next day in the garden I was being run after by several bullies. They ran after me around__the__garden and finally I made a dash for the wall and tried to climb over in order to escape. I saw the deaf kid sitting there just looking at me as the bullies pulled me down from the wall. They dragged me by my legs, screaming and shouting. All I could hear the entire time was the__sound of that whale being attacked again although his vocal__cords were removed. That is when I realized that he probably really did love me. (139 words)