2019版高考英语黄冈经典一轮(全国通用版)课时提升作业： 三十九 选修8 Unit 4 Word版含答案

课时提升作业三十九选修8Unit 4Pygmalion(建议用时35分钟)Ⅰ. 阅读理解APygmalion is a drama in which Shaw has made sentiments one of the principle themes of discussion. The Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved a statue and fell in love with it. Aphrodite(the goddess of love) turned the statue into a living woman named Galatea, who then became Pygmalion’s wife.The Shavian Pygmalion is Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who picks up a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, teaches her to speak as educated people do, and then successfully passes her off as a duchess. But she is a human being and cannot be treated as a machine. In the course of all his experiments and exhibitions, the professor only thinks of his own skill success and failure, but never stops to consider how the girl feels. When the experiment is over, he has a profound sense of relief that he has achieved triumph and has won his bet. Even now, the sentiment of the girl is of no account. The girl naturally protests against this dehumanized relationship between her and her teacher. She hurls(投掷)the professor’s slippers at him when he wants them and then leaves his place. But evidently, she has begun to feel for the professorand wants also to be felt for.Now the question is what is the nature of E liza’s feelings for the professor with whom she has lived in close association for so long? In the last act, the girl says she would not marry him even if he had proposed(求婚) to her. The professor, curiously ineffectual(无效的) to sexual emotions, does not love any girl because he finds them to be rivals(对手) to his own mother. He wonders, if Eliza does not want to marry him, then what does she want from him? Old Mrs Higgins, who knows much about a woman says that it would have been better if he had thanked her and petted her and told her how wonderful she had been. Then perhaps she would not have fought with him. Every girl loves to be loved. Eliza herself says that she loves Freddy and he also loves her. Professor Higgins, however, remains as ever, an old bachelor.【文章大意】萧伯纳的著名戏剧《卖花女》具有经久不衰的艺术魅力, 描述的是语言学教授希金斯如何把一名卖花姑娘训练成英语发音被上流社会接受并认可的故事, 从而抨击了当时英国腐朽保守的等级意识。

1. What does the underlined phrase “passes her off as” in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Lets her pretend to be.B. Dresses her up as.C. Makes her become.D. Turns into.【解析】选A。

词义猜测题。

根据前文的“teaches her to speak aseducated people do”以及下文的“In the course of all his experiments and exhibitions”可知该短语的意思是“把某人冒充或假装为”。

2. What kind of person do you think Higgins is according to the second paragraph?A. He is a kind man.B. He is a considerate man.C. He is a selfish man.D. He is a rude man.【解析】选C。

推理判断题。

根据第二段第三句可知Higgins只考虑自己的成败得失, 从不考虑Eliza的感受, 显然他是一个自私的人。

3. Why does not Eliza marry Higgins? Because ________.A. she does not love himB. his mother does not like any girl to be her rivalC. he likes to be a bachelorD. he doesn’t love any girl for fear of them being his mother’s rivals【解析】选D。

细节理解题。

根据最后一段第三句可知Eliza不会嫁给Higgins, 因为Higgins担心未来的妻子会成为他母亲的对手, 所以他不敢爱上任何一个女孩。

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Shaw was in fact a Greek sculptor.B. Higgins was experimenting with Eliza.C. Eliza wanted to become an educated lady very much.D. Higgins fell in love with Eliza at first sight.【解析】选B。

细节理解题。

根据第二段可知Higgins只是把Eliza 当成一个试验品。

故B正确。

【知识拓展】难句解读When the experiment is over, he has a profound sense of relief that he has achieved triumph and has won his bet.结构: 时间状语从句, 主语+谓语+宾语+同位语从句翻译: 当实验结束后, 他感到深深的欣慰, 他已经取得了胜利, 并赢得了他的赌注。

BFor many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting along war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like aborder conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teenwar is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonlyarise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is-politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg-the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority-someone who actually knows something-and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.【文章大意】本文对于父母和孩子之间的战争从三个方面进行了分析。