Unit 5单元测试题 2
第二部分： 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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Are you interested both in camp and music? Maybe the MSU Community Music School is a better place for you to go! It offers different music camps this summer!
Rock Camp June 23 - 27, 2014 $220
It is held for middle and high school students who have some experience playing their instruments (guitar, bass, drums, or keyboard). Bands will be coached by members of The Outer Vibe.
At camp, students will form and work in their own bands based on musical interest and skill level. They will learn songs in preparation for an end-of-camp rock concert at The Loft on June 27!
Band Camp July 14 - 18, 2014 $215
It’s a camp for middle school students who have completed at least one year of instrumental study. This camp provides students with an opportunity to perform with other talented students, and receive class instruction in instrumental technique (技巧). Then a concert for parents and friends will be held on July 18 at Fairchild Theatre.
Musical Theatre Camp July 14 - 25, 2014 $300 for Grades 9-12 $220 for Grades 2-8
This camp is held for elementary, middle and high school students. Campers in grades 9-12 will spend the full two weeks developing skills including voice
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development, dancing, and prop (道具) design. Campers in grades 2-8 will join them in the second week, and the camp will give a final performance featuring scenes and songs from many popular musicals.
Beginning Strings (弦乐器) Camp August 4 - 8, 2014 $185
This camp will introduce violins, violas and cellos (中提琴和大提琴) to children ages 6-12. It will give the students instructions by professional string teachers, along with singing and music theory games. Instruments are provided by CMS through a donation by Marshall Music Co. for students who do not have one. At the end of the camp, there will be a final performance to show what the students have learned. 21. If a sixth-grader wants to take part in a camp about musicals, how much will he spend?
A. $185. B. $215. C. $220. D. $300.
22. What do the four camps have in common? A. They all invite some famous stars to teach. B. They are all open to students in all grades. C. They are all organized by Marshall Music Co. D. They all include an end-of-camp performance.
23. The author writes this text mainly to encourage students to _____. A. take part in the music camps B. learn different kinds of music C. have a wonderful summer holiday D. visit the MSU Community Music School
B
Suppose someone asks you to paint a picture. “All right,” you think. “No problem. I can fill the paper pretty easily.” But what if the picture you are asked to paint is three stories high, two city blocks long, and one block wide? In other words, a
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total of 17,000 square feet! Most people would be overwhelmed by the request. But not Diego Rivera.
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of modern Mexico’s most famous painters. When he was asked to paint this huge picture, he knew he could do it. During his life, Rivera painted 124 frescos that showed Mexican life, history, and social problems. A fresco is a painting on wet plaster (灰泥).
Rivera had to plan ahead and drew simply about what he planned to paint. Then Rivera’s assistants would put all but the final layer (层) of plaster on the wall. Next, they used sharp tools to dig the outline of Rivera’s quickly-made drawing into the plaster. Then, they made a mixture of lime (石灰) and sand and spread this over the outline in a thin layer. As soon as this layer was firm — but not dry — Rivera began to paint. Every morning, his paints had to be freshly mixed. Rivera would paint as long as there was daylight. He refused to paint under man-made light since it would change how the colors looked.
Sometimes, Rivera would say that what he had painted that day was not good enough. Then he would insist that all the plaster be cut off so he could start again! It took Rivera years to finish, but this fresco is thought to be one of the greatest in the world. The man himself is considered to be the greatest Mexican artist of the twentieth century.
24. What would most people think about the request of painting the huge picture? A. It is possible. B. It is pretty easy. C. It is interesting. D. It is too difficult. 25. The third paragraph is about _____. A. how Rivera mixed different paints B. how Rivera chose his assistants C. how Rivera did his painting D. how Rivera became famous
26. What can we learn about Diego Rivera? A. He wanted everything to be perfect. B. He liked using light in his paintings.
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C. He preferred quickly-made drawings. D. He was good at making full use of his time.
C
The American screen has long been a smoky place. But cigarettes are more common in movies today than at any other time in the last 50 years. According to a survey by the University of California, San Francisco, 75% of all Hollywood films released between 1999 and 2006 showed tobacco (烟草) use.
Sadly, audiences — especially kids — are taking notice. Two recent studies show that among children as young as 10, those who always see smoking in the movies are up to 2.7 times more likely than others to pick up the habit. Kids from non-smoking homes are hit the hardest. This could be because they don’t live with the dirty ashtrays (烟灰缸) that make real-world smoking a lot less attractive than the cleaned-up movie version.
“Seeing smoking on-screen makes it look normal,” says Jono Polansky, who works with a project called Smoke Free Movies. “It says, ‘If you want to be an adult, you’ll smoke,’” Polansky told TFK (Time for Kids). Before you go to the movies, check out smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu for an updated list of which movies show smoking.
More groups than ever are pushing to get the smokes off of the screen. “Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour,” says Barry Bloom, head of the Harvard School of Public Health. “We’re in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the Number 1 preventable cause.”
Pressure (压力) is growing to make movies a non-smoking zone. A dozen health groups, including the American Medical Association, are calling for a reduction of smoking in movies and on TV. Forty-one state attorneys general (州总检察长) have agreed to add an anti-tobacco public service ad at the beginning of any DVD that includes smoking.
Like former smokers, movie studios may realize that getting out of the habit is not just a lot healthier, but also a lot smarter.
27. The underlined part “the habit” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
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