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Unit 5 Launching Your Career
B卷能力提升卷
(时间:120分钟满分:120分)
第一部分阅读(共两节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题:每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Here's a look at Bob Dylan's life through his legendary music.
Song to Woody (1962)
It was released on his debut album Bob Dylan in 1962.Dylan expressed his respect for the
legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie in this early classic.
The Times They Are A Changin (1963)
It was released as the title track of his third album of the same name,which launched him as
a major voice in the new folk scene and marked the beginning of the Civil Rights movement of the
1960s.Critic Michacl Gray called it "the archetypical protest song".
Ballad in Plain D(1964)
Dylan details his fractious relationship with Suze Rotolo in this long track from his fourth
album,Another Side of Bob Dylan.Dylan scholar Clinton Heylin called it "an exercise of
painful autobiography".
Like a Rolling Stone (1965)
Chosen by Rolling Stone as number onc on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Timc,it
was from the Highway 61 Revisiled album and transformed Dylan's image from a folk singer to
a rock star.He wrote it after returning from an exhausting tour of England.He was thinking
about quitting the music business,but he worked out his frustrations about the public's
demanding expectations of him through this song.
All Along the Watchtower (1968)
After a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1966,Dylan went into seclusion for almost a year.
He emerged with one of his greatest artistic achievements with this track from the John Wesley
Harding album.Many critics have seen this song as a summing-up of Dylan's life and career.
Gotta Serve Somebody (1979)
In the late 1970s,Dylan underwent a conversion to born-again Christianity,taking five
months off touring to attend Bible school.This yearning plea for meaning expressed his new
rcligion.It was part of his Slow Train Coming rock gospel album.
Things Ilave Changed (2000)
Written for the film Wonder Boys,this strange portrait of an agi