中考英语阅读理解时文阅读 语境专项训练 人与社会-文学艺术与体育（《鳄鱼》莫言+《繁花》金宇澄）

中考英语阅读理解时文阅读 语境专项训练 人与社会-文学艺术与体育 《鳄鱼》戏剧家莫言 《繁花》之外，金宇澄 A 时文阅读：新作《鳄鱼》！戏剧家莫言的华丽转型 主题语境：人与社会-文学艺术与体育-文学 《鳄鱼》是莫言构思十余年，精心创作的一部具有魔幻色彩的长篇话剧剧作。自2023年6月15日全网预售开启以来，本书在市场上反响火爆，多位著名作家与评论家都给出了高度的评价，认为这是莫言迄今艺术水准最高的剧作。“我曾发下誓言，用我的后半生完成从小说家到剧作家的转型”，莫言曾这样表达了自己全力投入戏剧创作的雄心。这部重磅新作的问世，见证了曾经的誓言，也标志着莫言从小说家到戏剧家的华丽转型。 阅读短文并回答问题 In June of 2023, the famous writer Mo Yan published（出版）his new play Crocodile（《鳄鱼》）. The play centers around the main character, Shan Wudan. Shan gets a crocodile as one of many gifts for his birthday. Over the next ten years, all kinds of people appear around him. Shan keeps changing the crocodile’s fish tank（鱼缸）into a bigger one. This gives the crocodile more space to grow. In the end, it grows to four meters long. “The crocodile is a symbol of human desire（欲望）and the complexity（复杂）of human nature,” said Mo Yan. “Desire makes everything beautiful, but it also produces the evil that can break all things,” he wrote in the play. Before his Nobel award in 2012, Mo was best known for his novel Red Sorghum. In 1987, Zhang Yimo turned the novel into a film. It was the first movie from China to earn international fame（声誉）. The 68-year-old writer has always loved theater. He found a lot of joy in the art of playwriting（剧本创作）. His first work was not a novel, but an unpublished play called Divorce. Before Crocodile, Mo had published a number of other plays. Two famous ones are Our Assassin Jing Ke and Farewell My Concubine. These two have been staged（上演）more than 100 times at home and abroad. We are looking forward to the staging of Crocodile! 1. What do we know about Shan Wudan? A. He enjoys making friends. B. He takes good care of the crocodile. C. He gets only one gift for his birthday. D. He has a wide knowledge of crocodiles. 2. The underlined word “evil” in Paragraph 3 probably means “______” in Chinese. A. 仁慈 B. 动力 C. 幻想 D. 邪恶 3. How many of Mo Yan’s works are mentioned（提及）in the passage? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six. 4. What is the