课时作业(十) Unit 4 Section A Welcome to the unit & Reading (分值：45分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共12小题；每小题2.5分，满分30分) A Long ago, poems were recited out loud instead of being written down. Back when the Greeks first started the Olympics, they held poetry contests as well as athletic competitions. Now, poetry competitions have been revived. This year 120，000 high school students competed in the first Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest, performing poems from memory for $100，000 in prizes. The first competitions were held in classrooms. The winners went on to schoolwide contests, and then they competed in city and state competitions, and then the 50 state champions, along with the District of Columbia champion came to Washington, D. C．， last week for the last showdown (对决). After the 51 champions competed against one another, 12 went on to the finals. Then the field was narrowed to five. The final five had one last chance to “perform” a poem. The overall champ, Jackson Hille, a high school senior from Ohio, won a $ 20，000 scholarship. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from reading it on the page. It's not just a matter of saying the words in the right order. It's the tone of voice, the pauses, the gestures, and the attitude of the person performing that bring the words to life. “Each time we hear somebody recite a poem, we understand again what we found fresh and interesting about it，” says National Public Radio broadcaster Scott Simon, master of ceremonies for the finals. Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener. Not only do the people hearing poems have a new experience, memorizing and presenting poems helps the participants understand those poems in a new way. Another benefit of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn public-speaking skills that can help them for life. 【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。主要讲述了诗歌仅仅在书上阅读是远远不够的，朗诵和聆听一首诗歌会给人带来全新的感受。 1．From the first paragraph, we can know _____．( ) A．the Greeks were the first to write poems B．the Olympics used to start with poem reciting C．poems were spread orally in the past D.athletes were asked to recite poems before competing 答案：C 解析：推理判断题。根据第一段中的“Long ago, poems were recited out loud instead of being written down.”可知，在很早以前，诗歌只是口头朗诵的，所以当时诗歌的传播方式为口头传授。故选C。 2．How many rounds of competitions did the champions take before they went to Washington, D. C．？( ) A．Three. B．Four C．Five. D．Six. 答案：B 解析：细节理解题。根据第三段的介绍可知，参赛者经过在班里、在学校，然后在市里和州里的比赛后才来到华盛顿进行比赛。 3．According to the passage, hearing a poem recited by many people can _____．( ) A．bring a new life to listeners B．help listeners find their interest C．make listeners learn the ... ...
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