2018版高考英语大一轮复习 Unit 4 Pygmalion复习练案 新人教版选修8

Unit 4 Pygmalion

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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(2017·山东省济宁市高三期末)导学号 42492821

If you're ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the clear feeling that

you've come across the story before—or even better, can predict exactly what's going

to happen next—there could be a good reason for that.

Researchers from the Computational Story Laboratory at the University of Vermont

studied the complete text of some 1,737 fiction works available on Project Gutenberg,

an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area.They

discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the most well－known stories.By analyzing the

sentiment(情感)of language used in these texts, the researchers were able to show

the emotional ups and downs for the stories as a whole.They discovered that negative

words like“poverty”，“dead”， and“punishment”dragged the emotion down, while

positive terms like“love”，“peace”， and“friend”brought it up.

According to the researchers, those six core emotional arcs are：

●“Rags to riches”(An ongoing emotional rise)

●“Tragedy, or riches to rags”(An ongoing emotional fall)

●“Man in a hole”(a fall followed by a rise)

●“Icarus”(A rise followed by a fall)

●“Cinderella”(Rise－fall－rise)

●“Oedipus”(Fall－rise－fall)

Interestingly, based on download statistics from Project Gutenberg, the

researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional

arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads.Also

popular are works that combine these core arcs together in new ways within one story,

such as two“Man in a hole”arcs stuck together, or the“Cinderella”are coupled with

a tragic ending.

文章大意：文章介绍读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉，因为故事有相似的情感弧线。

1．Readers often feel familiar when reading a new story because stories have 2 similar__D__.

A．beginnings B．endings

C．characters D．emotional arcs

解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that English literature

consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线)that make up nearly all of the

most well－known stories.”可知，读者读新故事的时候经常感觉熟悉，因为故事有相似的情感弧线。故选D。

2．How did researchers carry out their study？__C__

A．By conducting surveys among readers

B．By reading books borrowed from libraries

C．By analyzing works from an online collection

D．By interviewing authors of the well－known stories

解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“an online collection of more than 50,000

digital books in the public area.”可知，研究人员通过分析网络收集的作品进行这项研究。故选C。

3．Which set of words may drag emotion down？__B__

A．Hope, fortune and riches

B．Disease, murder and war

C．Smile, health and beauty

D．Cold, earthquake and spring

解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子“They discovered that negative words

like”poverty“，”dead“， and”punishment“dragged the emotion down，”可知，消极的词会让情感低落。故选B。

4．According to the last paragraph, which kind of works are most popular among

readers？__D__

A．Works with an ongoing emotional rise

B．Works with an ongoing emotional fall

C．Works with a rise followed by a fall

D．Works with more than one rise and fall

解析：推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的句子“the researchers say the most popular

stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus

arcs registering the most downloads.”可知，最受欢迎的是有不止一个起起伏伏的作品。故选D。

B 3 (2016·厦门市高中毕业班第一次质检)导学号 42492822

Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird on the racial troubles of the

American deep south, has died at the age of 89.

Until last year, Lee had been something_of_a_one－book_literary_legend.To Kill

a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned her a

Pulitzer prize, remaining a towering presence in American literature.Another novel,

Go Set a Watchman, was controversially published in July 2015 as a “sequel” to

Mockingbird, though it was later confirmed to be Mockingbird's first draft.

But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost instant success, the

author consistently avoided public attention.Lee had lived for several years in a

nursing home near the house in which she had grown up in Monroeville, Alabama—the

setting for Maycomb of her famous book.Her neighbor for 40 years, Sue Sellers, said,

“She was such a private person.All she wanted was privacy, but she didn't get

much.There was always somebody following her around.”

James Naughtie, BBC Books Editor, commented on the novels of Harper Lee: “I think

she stands, particularly among American readers, as someone who shone a light into

a very dark place.She was writing at a time when people were beginning to lift the

lid on everything in the South which they'd chosen not to understand.That all changed

in the 1960s.So I think her status for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct