内容正文:
Section Ⅴ
“Extended reading”的课文习读环节
NO 1
精阅读/提升阅读“理解力”
NO 2
美表达/强化写作“基本功”
NO 3
课时检测
目 录
No.1 精阅读/提升阅读“理解力”
Ⅰ.理清文脉结构
文意整体把握
in the 12th
century
rural life
civilians
inside the city
Using ink on silk
comprehensive
realism
display
Ⅱ.把握主旨大意
1.What's the main idea of the text?
A.The crisis of the Northern Song Dynasty.
B.The comprehensive look at life during the Northern Song Dynasty.
C.The insight into life in China in the 12th century.
D.A masterwork of Chinese art.
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2.Skim the text and match the main idea with each paragraph.
Para.1 A.The artistic technique reflected in the Qingming Scroll
Para.2 B.The main sections of the Qingming Scroll
Para.3 C.The popularity of the Qingming Scroll
Para.4 D.The value and influence of the Qingming Scroll
Para.5 E.The basic information of the Qingming Scroll
Para.6 F.The message conveyed in the Qingming Scroll
答案:Paras. 1~6 EBAFDC
(一)阅读理解
1.What is Zhang Zeduan's Qingming Scroll about?
A.The history of Chinese art.
B.The development of silk in China.
C.The life in the Northern Song Dynasty.
D.The life in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
文意深度理解
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2.What do some critics find in the silk scroll?
A.Zhang's amazing artistic technique.
B.The 12th-century Chinese customs.
C.The peaceful life in the capital city.
D.Some serious political and social problems.
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3.What does the phrase “is down to” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A.Contributes to. B.Lies in.
C.Leads to. D.Results in.
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4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.People want to take photos of the scroll.
B.The scroll is the longest one in the world.
C.The scroll has great attraction to people.
D.People have got great inspiration from the historic piece of art.
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[Tip]
关注段首段尾处
第4题考查对最后一段的相关信息的判断。此类题目应首先定位该段的段首段尾处,把握段落大意后再进一步解题。文章最后一段的尾句提到:公众的热情证明了这幅画的影响力,由此可推出本题的答案。
(二)阅读表达
1.What are the main sections of the scroll?
①____________________________
②__________________________________
③______________________
A peaceful scene of rural life.
The riverbanks and the central bridge.
Life inside the city itself.
2.What does the painting's value lie in?
Its value lies in the great scale, artistic quality, attention to detail and its representation of daily life.
3.What do you know about traditional Chinese painting?
Traditional Chinese painting is the art of painting on a piece of Xuan paper or silk with a Chinese brush that was soaked with black ink or coloured pigments.It is regarded as one of the “three quintessence of Chinese culture”,the other two being traditional Chinese medicine and Peking Opera.By subject, traditional Chinese painting can be classified into three types: figure painting, landscape painting, and flowers and birds painting.
通过主题句抓文章主旨
本文是一篇介绍性散文。介绍性散文一般开篇即点题,指明要介绍的事物。文章的脉络结构通常比较清晰,或为总-分结构,或为总-分-总结构,段落的构成一般遵循演绎法或归纳法,主题句可在段首、段尾处找到。因此可通过文章或段落的主题句轻松归纳出文章主旨。如本文的首句“Zhang Zeduan's Qingming Scroll is a masterwork of Chinese art.”开门见山点明了介绍的对象,除最后一段外,文中每段均由主题句引领,层次分明,脉络清晰。
内化读文技法
No.2 美表达/强化写作“基本功”
(一)赏用词之妙
1.Painted on a five-metre-long silk scroll, it offers an important insight into life in China in the 12th century.
赏析:本句中使用了offers an important insight into life,表明通过画作我们可以深入了解十二世纪中国的生活风貌,更突显了此幅画作的重要价值:不仅可以让人赏析艺术,而且可以帮助人们探索历史。insight 表示“洞悉;了解”。
2.The ancient scroll has survived the test of time remarkably well, and is currently housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
赏析:本句中的“survive”为熟词生义的用法,在句中表示“留存下来”,与后面的“remarkably well”搭配,表达了这幅画卷历经沧桑依然保存完好;后半句中的“house”则是名词动用,意为“安置,收藏”,点明画卷现收藏于北京故宫博物院。
3.The second section shows the riverbanks and the central bridge alive with activity as boats sail in and out of Bianjing.
赏析:本句中的“alive with activity”以及“sail in and out”展现了熙熙攘攘的热闹景象,让读者犹如亲见。
4.This well-developed ability, as well as the scroll's ambitious size, allows Zhang to show an enormous amount of detail — you could study the painting for hours and still discover something new.
赏析:本句中使用了ambitious和enormous分别描绘了气势恢宏的画幅及数不清的细节,突显了该画作的显著特点。
①The project would give scientists __________________what is happening to the earth's atmosphere.
该项目将使科学家对地球大气层的状况有新的深入了解。
[仿写训练] (完成句子)
new insights into
②The storm was still strong and so was my will to struggle with and__________.
风暴仍然很猛烈,我与之斗争并在风暴中生存下来的意志也同样强烈。
③The market is busy and the street______________________.
市集依旧热闹,街上还是人声鼎沸。
survive it
is still alive with people
(二)赏句式之高
1.It is commonly believed that the city described in the painting is Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
赏析:本句中含有that引导的主语从句,且使用了形式主语it来平衡句式,避免了“头重脚轻”的现象。it is commonly believed that ...为高级句式,表示“人们普遍认为……”。句子最后的the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty为Bianjing的同位语,对其做进一步的解释说明。
2.The first section presents a peaceful scene of rural life near Bianjing, featuring crop fields, a river winding through the landscape, and farmers hard at work.
赏析:本句中使用了现在分词短语featuring ...作伴随状语,在该短语中又使用了分词短语winding through the landscape作后置定语修饰a river, 短语hard at work修饰farmers,细致地描写了汴京近郊宁静美好的乡村生活。
3.Also in the painting are soldiers who appear to ignore their duties.
赏析:本句运用了倒装结构,这种句式结构能更好地承接上文,令上下文衔接更顺畅,逻辑更合理。倒装句式的灵活运用不但可以衔接上下文,也能起到强调主语的作用,属于写作中的高级句式。
①On Sunday afternoon, we would sit on the benches in the school yard, and enjoy the sunshine.
→On Sunday afternoon,we would sit on the benches in the school yard,_____________________.(升级为分词作状语)
[仿写训练] (完成句子)
enjoying the sunshine
②Chongqing, one of the largest cities in China, lies at the meeting place of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River.
→_____________________________________________________
___________________________________________(升级为倒装句)
At the meeting place of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River
lies Chongqing, one of the largest cities in China.
(三)赏逻辑之巧
At first sight, the overall scene of life in the capital city appears peaceful and cheerful.However, some critics suggest that on closer inspection, the painting actually exposes serious political and social problems.Some boats carrying food do not seem to belong to the government, which suggests that the government has lost control of food supplies and transportation.Also in the painting are soldiers who appear to ignore their duties.There are some less obvious indicators of trouble too.For example, in the centre of the scroll, a boat is in danger of crashing into the bridge.
赏析:此处先用at first sight“乍看上去”简单概括了“好”的一面:京城生活总体上安宁而欢愉。注意此处overall的运用。接着用转折连词however引出“不好”的地方:存在严重的政治和社会问题。注意本句中actually的运用,和上文的overall形成呼应。接下来作者描述了一些细节来佐证自己的观点。后文又用衔接词also及too作进一步探讨,并用for example进行举例说明。这一部分的整个描写,层层深入、有理有据,且运用了作比较、摆事实、讲道理等手法,自然流畅、深入透彻地阐释了画作中反映的问题。
No.3 课时检测
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
Making marks or signing names in the sand is a great fun for most travelers on a vacation beach.But for Dubai-based Filipino artist Nathaniel A.Alapide, it's how he became a Guinness World Record holder.
Dubai's 72-kilometer coastline, and the vast Arabian Desert, are Alapide's canvas.Using only a simple garden tool, he draws enormous lines across the beaches and deserts, making huge and complex designs.His average drawing is around 20 meters squared.When he includes a written message, the pieces can be more than 100 meters long.
Alapide's sand art began in 2014, when he drew a tree in memory of his late grandmother on the beach, near Jumeirah Beach Hotel.The size of the drawing appealed to the hotel which offered him his first full-time job as a sand artist in 2015.Since then, he has decorated the sands with around 1,900 drawings.He's been assigned by big brands, and he created a work for National Geographic for the program “The Emirates from Above”.In 2022, Alapide set a new record for the world's largest sand image.
Though Alapide has crafted a career from the practice, he says creating an artwork from sand isn't always plain sailing.“On the 20th day of creating the world-record piece, we were almost 70% done but there was this weather that happened,” he says.“It was raining, and the wind was so strong, which removed almost the whole piece.”
“I think this is where I find this kind of work interesting,” Alapide continues.He says that the temporary nature of his work reminds him that everything is in constant change.“And I think making sand art is a great way to connect with people,” he adds.“I like to watch how people interact with the work and I have found that the kids notice the drawings more than the adults.I think because they're more aware of their environment.”
语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了Alapide成为沙画艺术家的过程、他在这个领域所取得的成就以及他对这项艺术的看法。
1.What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about Alapide's drawing?
A.Its origin. B.Its size.
C.Its materials. D.Its features.
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解析:段落大意题。根据第二段的内容可知,本段介绍了Alapide作画所用的画布、工具、画的内容及面积,这些都属于Alapide作画的特点。
2.How did Alapide start his career of sand drawing?
A.By decorating a hotel as required.
B.By impressing a hotel with his work.
C.By transplanting a tree on the beach.
D.By creating works for big brands.
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解析:细节理解题。根据第三段前两句可知,Alapide无意中在海滩上画的一棵树吸引了酒店,即他的作品给酒店留下了深刻印象,从而开始了自己沙画艺术家的生涯。
3.What can we say about Alapide's job according to Paragraph 4?
A.Challenging. B.Worthless.
C.Influential. D.Impractical.
解析:推理判断题。根据第四段中的“...isn't always plain sailing”及其后的举例说明可知,Alapide的工作并不总是一帆风顺的,经常受到天气的影响,因此他的工作是充满挑战的。
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4.What does the last paragraph intend to convey?
A.A candle lights others but consumes itself.
B.He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
C.Happiness lies not in things, but in ourselves.
D.The longest journey begins with the first step.
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解析:推理判断题。根据最后一段可知,Alapide认为沙画是与人交流的好方法,观察人们如何与作品互动也让他很开心。由此可知,Alapide喜欢的是在这个过程中的人际互动以及自己所感受到的快乐,所以C选项“快乐不在于事物,而在于我们自己”是本段想表达的中心思想。
B
Two armchairs are in the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.Denise, a blogger with past experience of homelessness, is sitting in one armchair, waiting for questions.A person sits opposite her, asking if it's OK to give money to homeless people on the street.“It's down to personal choice,” replies Denise.“Some worry it is enabling addictions, but it's also providing someone with money to pay for shelter.” The dialogues are part of a performance artwork called Are you sitting comfortably? The work was part of the opening International Arts and Homelessness Festival.
At the festival there were also the works of artists, many of whom had experience of homelessness like Lawrence.Lawrence now has become an enthusiastic gardener, filling second-hand containers with soil and seeds.He has also written poetry to deal with life's hardships.“My life started the day I stepped into this place,” he said.“Everyone has some genius, I think, and they help bring it out.”
The festival ended with “an immersive (沉浸式的) opera” Man on Bench, written by and starring Tovey.His story covers a string of bad luck, including being diagnosed with cancer.Tovey was once homeless and desperate on a park bench when a guard started a conversation with him.The result was that Tovey moved into a night shelter and started taking photos and began winning photography competitions.That was five years ago.He now gives talks and runs events all over the country.
Man on Bench doesn't sugarcoat the realities of life on the street.“But we do want to change people's minds,” he said.In a safe environment, focusing on drawing, people are more likely to get to know their problems.Then they will think about how to change.That's why it's so powerful.It gets people thinking.
语篇解读:本文是一篇说明文。文章通过介绍International Arts and Homelessness Festival上的作品,展示了艺术给无家可归者的生活所带来的改变。
5.What is Denise's attitude towards giving money to the homeless?
A.Objective. B.Uncaring.
C.Negative. D.Active.
解析:观点态度题。根据第一段的“It's down to personal choice ...with money to pay for shelter.”可知,丹尼斯对给无家可归的人捐钱的态度是客观的。
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6.How did Lawrence get through his suffering?
A.By joining in the festival.
B.By creating numbers of artworks.
C.By doing gardening and writing poems.
D.By solving poor people's personal problems.
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解析:推理判断题。根据第二段的“Lawrence now has become an enthusiastic gardener ... written poetry to deal with life's hardships.”可知,劳伦斯通过做园艺和写诗来度过他的苦难。
7.What can be inferred from Man on Bench according to the passage?
A.It hides the real life of the homeless.
B.It is probably based on Tovey's real life.
C.It encourages the homeless to find shelter.
D.It is a piece of poetry composed by Tovey.
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解析:推理判断题。根据第三段的“The festival ended with ...winning photography competitions.”可知,Man on Bench可能是基于托维的真实生活。
8.Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Art Reflecting Life
B.Art Festival Is Going on
C.Life of the Homelessness
D.Art Changes the Life of the Homeless
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解析:标题归纳题。通读全文,尤其是第二段可知,本文通过介绍International Arts and Homelessness Festival上的作品展示了艺术给无家可归者的生活所带来的改变,故D选项“艺术改变了无家可归者的生活”适合作文章标题。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
Understanding and appreciating abstract art can be tough if you don't have much experience with art.Don't worry.The following can help you gain an appreciation of abstract artwork enormously.
·Relax as you look at abstract art.
9 , it's best to go to the gallery or view the art when you're in a relaxing state so that the art affects you in a positive way.Limit distractions around you, like your cellphone, and try to clear your mind of negative or stressful thoughts.
· 10 .
Avoid saying things like “Anyone could make that” and dismiss prior opinions you have about the artwork before you actually see it.Try to approach the art with an open mind and don't compare it with other works, especially if it's not in the same style.
·Ask yourself how the painting makes you feel.
Instead of trying to evaluate the technical aspects of the art, ask yourself how the art makes you feel. 11 , it has an emotional impact on you.Do be honest with yourself when determining your real feelings.
·Research the artist's life.
Some galleries have an informational plaque (匾牌) near the artwork that describes the artist.Read the informational plaque next to the artwork.This is a great way to better understand the artist and his mindset (思维模式) when he created the art.Most abstract art tries to capture a feeling or emotion like sadness, rage, or happiness. 12 .
·Speak and interact with abstract artists.
If you like, you can find abstract artists in collective studios or at their art shows. 13 .Getting their perspective may give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of their work.
Well now, if you still don't get abstract art and can't appreciate it, try to create some artwork yourself.If you don't know where to start, you can look up tutorials online or take a local art class.
A.Take the time to respectfully speak to them
B.Look at the artwork as objectively as you can
C.If it makes you happy, sad, anxious, or excited
D.As long as you understand the techniques used to create the art
E.There are different styles and types of art for you to further research
F.Since being distracted or stressed can actually affect how you enjoy art
G.For example, if the artist witnessed a war, a depressing feeling may be conveyed in his art
语篇解读:本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了如何欣赏抽象艺术品。
9.解析:选F 根据段落小标题“Relax as you look at abstract art.”以及空后的“it's best to go to ...in a positive way”可推知,前后句表示逻辑上的因果关系,前因后果,且F项中的“distracted”与下文中的“distractions”呼应,故F项衔接下文,符合语境。
10.解析:选B 空处为段落小标题。根据对本段的整体理解可知,欣赏艺术品时要避免武断或被固有的观念所束缚,要以开放的思想欣赏它。由此可推知,本段主要讲的是要尽可能客观地欣赏艺术品,故B项能概括本段主旨。
11.解析:选C 根据空后的“it has an emotional impact on you”可推知,空处表示艺术品给你的感受,与空前的“ask yourself how the art makes you feel”呼应,故C项承上启下,符合语境。
12.解析:选G 根据空前一句“Most abstract art tries to capture a feeling or emotion like sadness, rage, or happiness.”可推知,空处应是举例进行进一步解释说明,故G项衔接上文,符合语境。
13.解析:选A 根据段落小标题“Speak and interact with abstract artists.”以及空后一句可推知,花点时间和艺术家们对话,从而可以对其所创作的艺术作品有更深层次的理解和认识,故A项承上启下,符合语境。
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