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2018届高考总复习25分钟限时阅读天天练—第4天

old art? Peking Opera bines instrumental music, singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics (杂技) Full of Chinese cultural elements, Peking Opera presents to the audience an encyclopedia (百科全书) of Chinese culture with unfolding stories, beautiful paintings, wonderful costumes and graceful gestures

The art form has created many “firsts” in Chinese dramas the abundance of repertoires (曲目), the number of artists and opera troupes and audience So it is called the national opera of China There are five main roles in Peking Opera sheng, dan, jing, mo and chou Sheng is the leading male actor Dan is the female roles Jing refers to male roles with colored face paintings who represent warriors (战士), heroes, statesmen, adventurers and demons (魔鬼) Mo is a minor male role Chou is a male ic character with a white patch on the nose They play roles of wit and humor It is these characters that keep the audience laughing to ease tension in some serious plays

1 What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words) 2 Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Is it only the thing that your grandfather like best to kill time?3 Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to plete the sentence

(Please answer within 10 words) 4 What’s your opinion about the Peking Opera project started in schools?

(Please answer within 30 words)

5 Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese 阅读理解

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WASHINGTON ,Jan 21—“I want to be a builder I want to build houses and buildings for the homeless,” said Aman Efrem ,a third-grade student from Hearst Elementary in Washington DC For another student, Azalea Westray ,the dream is “that all people stop violence” and “all people love and respect one another”

The two were among various answers to the Washington Post’s blank filling to “My dream is…” when Americans observed the Martin Luther King’s Day Monday

From Atlanta to Chicago ,memorial services ,forums and rallies are held nationwide Monday to honor the advocate of peaceful resistance and equality for people of all races

The Wall Street in NeYork ,in particular ,kicked off the celebration of the Martin Luther King’s DAY on Friday in an unusual way with the leader of American’s most important civil rights group ,also chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality Roy Innis ringing the opening bell in the morning at the Nasdaq stock exchange

Memory of Martin Luther King’s unfulfilled dream adds fuel to the speculation（推测）on the first African American presidential hopeful ,Illinois Senator Barack Obama ,as the 2018 presidential primary will move to South Carolina on Jan 26, which homes a large black population

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candidates ,NeYork Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former North Caroline John Edwards ,Monday turned the memorial events into their campaign stages to persuade the black who accounts for a significant percentage of the total Democratic voters in

the state

At the rally ,Obama echoed Martin Luther King’s “dream” and called for the end of divisions that he said has damaged the presidential contest And Clinton ,on the other hand ,recalled listening to King’s speech in her childhood and reminded voters of his vision of racial equality “The dream is nowhere fulfilled ,” she said “Noe are called to rise up ,speak up and finally get it done”

6．This passage mainly tells us that

A．the dream of Martin Luther King Jr has not been fulfilled until now

B．Martin Luther King’s Day was celebrated in the U S on Monday

C．everybody has his own dream ,including school children D．US presidential candidates seek support from the blacks 7．The two students mentioned in the first paragraph A．expressed their wishes in reply to an American newspaper B．were black children who suffered poverty and violence C．were asked to make a speech entitled “I have a dream” D．were determined to fulfill the dream of Martin Luther King Jr

8．The Wall Street in NeYork

A．refused to celebrate the Martin Luther King’s Day B．observed the Martin Luther King’s Day on Friday instead of on Monday

C．started the celebration of the Martin Luther King’s Day in an unusual way

D．invited Barack Obama to ring the opening bell at the stock exchange