2018届高三英语总复习课时作业2_含答案

课时作业2

Ⅰ.阅读理解

Have you ever found yourself in this situation: You hear a song you used to sing when you were a child—a bit of nostalgia(怀旧) or “blast from the past，” as we say. But it is not a distant childhood memory. The words come back to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years ago.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult languages.

Here is what they did. Researchers took 60 adults and randomly divided them into three groups of 20. Then they gave the groups three different types of “listen-and-repeat” learning conditions. Researchers had one group simply speak the words. They had the second group speak the words to a rhythm, or beat. And they asked the third group to sing the words.

All three groups studied words from the Hungarian language for 15 minutes. Then they took part in a series of language tests to see what they remembered.

Why Hungarian, you ask? Researchers said they chose Hungarian because not many people know the language. It does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. After the tests were over, the singers came out on top. The people who learned these new Hungarian words by singing them showed a higher overall performance. They did the best in four out of five of the tests. They also performed two times better than those who simply learned the words by speaking them.

Dr. Katie Overy says singing could lead to new ways to learn a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are contained in a catchy 3, or memorable 4, tune 5.

Dr. Ludke said the findings could help those who struggle to learn foreign languages. On the University of Edinburgh's website Dr. Ludke writes, “This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area.”

1．The “song” mentioned in the first paragraph is intended to ________.

A．recall the past

B．attract the readers

C．introduce the topic

D．compare the childhood with the present

2．According to the passage which language doesn't share the same root with Germanic or Romance languages?

A．Hungarian. B．Spanish.

C．Italian. D．English.

3．Based on the last two paragraphs, we can conclude that ________.

A．singing is the best way to learn a language

B．the brain probably works best when the foreign language learners sing the words

C．a listen-repeat method is very effective for any language learner

D．Dr. Katie Overy and Dr. Ludke disagree with each other

4．In which situation can the finding of the research be applied?

A．A mother is going to teach her baby how to speak.

B．A child is going to have his first music lesson.

C．A student is going to learn a new English song.

D．An American is going to learn some Chinese.

答案与解析

本文讲述的是一项关于音乐和外语学习之间关系的研究。

1．C细节理解题。本文开头通过举例导入话题，人们都清楚地记得儿时唱歌的歌词是因为音乐有助于记忆，故选C。

2．A细节理解题。根据文章第五段“I t does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish.”可知A项正确。故选A。

3．B细节理解题。根据最后两段对研究的具体描述可知B项正确。故选B。

4．D推理判断题。从最后一段可知，此项研究对于外语学习者非常有用，可知D项正确。故选D。

Ⅱ.七选五

(2017·福建省三明市月考)

The guy who tried to edit English

The English vocabulary is not only huge, it is also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. __1__ That was the thinking of a British writer named C．K. Ogden, who in the 1930s promoted a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. __2__

Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. __3__Because any verbal (动词的) idea c ould be expressed with a small number of “operators”—words like come, go, take, have, make, be and do —Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal” and forget is “go from memory.”

Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it.__4__ Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill's famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears and sweat” to his country wouldn't have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”

__5__Churchill didn't use it either. When seeking to express ourselves, we don't necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it's our benefit to have a large supply of words on hand.

A．Do we really need them all?

B．How many words are there in English?

C．Ogden himself didn't actually use Basic English.

D．Plenty of seeming basic words did not make the list at all.

E．He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it.