阅读理解--文化艺术类-【衡水金卷·先享题】2023高考英语专项提分卷（新教材旧高考）

阅读理解——文化艺术类 (限时20分钟,每小题2分,满分24分) 2. What was the audience's reaction when they first Next time you hear John Denver singing "Take Meheard "Take Me Home, Country Roads"? Home, Country Roads"— or hear the group SpankA. People all didn't fancy its lyrics. perform it in the short filmed advertisement for the videoB.Most people assumed that it was noisy. gameFallout 76, which has become a hit over the pastC.They made bad comments on the singers. year or so since it came out — keep in mind that itD.They were all fascinated by it. Wasn't anywhere in West Virginia that inspired the 3. What does paragraph 5 mainly convey? great hit, but rather a road in Montgomery County.A. Why Maryland was unused. Songwriter Bill Danofr, in a 1997 article he wroleB. Why the song was so popular. for The Washington Post in memory of Denver, who'dC.More achievements of the singers. just died, said he had begun writing the song whileD.A new way to understand the song. driving to a family reunmon along Clopper Road, near 4. What can be learned about "Take Me Home, Country Gaithersburg. He and his future wife, Taffy Nivert, Roads" from the last paragraph? completed the song in December 1970 with Denver'sA.It is popular among Red Sox fans. help. "Back then," Danoff wrote, Clopper Road "wasB.It is a state song of West Virginia. still a country road". C.It earned Denver a national award in 2014. The three first sang the song the following night atD.It was played most frequently in Massachusetts Washington D. C.'s The Cellar Door, where Denver B was headlining."When we first sang the song togeth- Robols in the art world are nothing new. Ln fact, er,"Danoff wrote,"it seemed as though the audience for centuries, people have built robots as art objects— would never stop applauding. Next show, the sameor simple machines that perform a series of movements thing.We knew we had a hit." —in ancient China and Japan. However, what's dif- In Take Me Home, his 1994 autobiography (自传)fere