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考研英語閱讀理解沖刺重點(diǎn)預(yù)測25篇 (第8篇)第8篇 （版權(quán)所有，違者必究！鑒于有部分輔導(dǎo)機(jī)構(gòu)不經(jīng)過同意就把具有獨(dú)立知識產(chǎn)權(quán)的作品公然轉(zhuǎn)載并聲稱是他們自己作品的案例，再次特別聲明：本博客所有文字材料僅供考生下載作自身的學(xué)習(xí)用途，任何形式的轉(zhuǎn)載必須征得的授權(quán)，保留對所有文字作品的法律權(quán)利?。㊣n the late 60s, a 23-year-old high-school dropout founded a theatre troupe in Pittsburghs Hill District, the predominantly black neighbourhood where he had grown up. He took to writing. One of his earliest works was a play set in a ramshackle gypsy-cab office in which little happened: a bunch of guys trade stories, swap insults, talk about the world. At some point, however, it became plain that all this was not really the playwrights characters talking about the world so much as he, August Wilson, doing what great writers do: building a world through his characters words.Revised and polished over two decades, that work became “Jitney”, part of an ambitious series of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century and all save one in the Hill District. These, known as the Pittsburgh Cycle, earned Wilson almost every award a playwright can win. To describe the plays as telling the story of the American black experience is true, but it sounds too high-minded. Wilson had a golden ear for the cadence and humour of everyday speech, and the way his characters reveal themselves through language provides a pleasure unmatched on the American stage.Radio Golf is the cycles final chapter in two senses: it is set in the centurys last decade, and Wilson died soon after completing it. Its protagonist, Harmond Wilks, is anomalous among Wilson characters: he is middle-class, politically ambitious and a true believer in the American legal and political systems. The play is a battle for his soul.On one side are his flashy business partner, Roosevelt Hicks, and Wilkss savvy wife, Mame. Hicks and Wilks want to “bring the Hill back” by building an apartment and retail complex on the site of some abandoned row houses. On the other side are two older neighbourhood guys: Old Joe, who has a claim on one of the houses Wilks wants to pull down, and who has a claim on one of the houses Wilks wants to pull down, and Sterling Johnson, a street-smart handyman. Metaphorically, this is a battle for the black community in the late 20th century: a struggle to maintain black cohesion in the face of economic incentives and a sort of spiritual gentrification.Dramatically, this play may be Wilsons thinnest: the lines between good and evil are too starkly drawn, and the claim that redevelopment has been uniformly regrettable for black Americans is simply untrue. But the plot is almost beside the point. Wilson has turned the Hill into a place as richly peopled and mythologically deep as Faulkners Yoknapatawpha county: the house that Old Joe believes he owns belonged to Aunt Ester, who died at the great age of 349. Ester was the spiritual centre of Wilsons Hill neighbourhood. Though she appeared in only one play, she is spoken of in all of them. Sterling Johnson was a young hot-head in “Two Trains Running”, Wilsons 60s play. In this one John Jelks gives him depth, toughness and wonderful comic timing. The outstanding performance, though, belongs to Anthony Chisholm, who invests Old Joe with a heartbreaking humanity. His recollection of having a flag torn off his army uniform mixes sadness, outrage and poetry in a manner that is quintessentially Wilsonian.注（1）：本文選自Economist, /注（2）：本文習(xí)題命題模仿對象為真題Text 3。1 According to the author, one of the reasons for Wilsons winning lots of awards is _.A Wilson writes about the black communities.B Wilson works hard on revising and polishing his works.C Wilsons works captures everyday humor and language.D Wilson expresses his own views through his characters words.2 What is the publics attitude towards Wilsons work?A indifferentB detachedC negativeD enthusiastic3 It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that _.A Wilson died before he finished Radio Golf.B Radio Golf is about how Wilks becomes a politician.C Radio Golf sets in the 90s.D Radio Golf is the best of all the ten series of plays.4 The term “protagonist” (Line 2, Paragraph 3) probably means _.A actorB the main characterC fictitious manD political activist5 From the text we can see the authors attitude towards Radio Golf is _.A negativeB supportiveC indifferentD indignant篇章剖析本文主要在于介紹奧古斯特威爾遜的最后一部劇作高爾夫電波。文章第一、二段先介紹了該部作品所屬的系列戲劇的背景、的寫作風(fēng)格和特點(diǎn)等；第三、四段對高爾夫電波的主要人物和情節(jié)進(jìn)行了概述；最后一段則是對于這部作品的評價(jià)。詞匯注釋troupe tru:p n. 劇團(tuán) handyman hAndimAn n. 做零活的人predominant pridCminEnt adj. 支配的, 主要的 metaphorical 7metEfrikEl adj. 隱喻的ramshackle rAm7FAkl adj. 搖搖欲墜的 cohesion kEuhi:VEn n. 結(jié)合, 凝聚swap swCp v. 易物交易 incentive insentiv n. 動(dòng)機(jī)cadence keidEns n. 節(jié)奏, 韻律 gentrification dVen7tifikeiFEn n. 貴族化protagonist prEutAgEnist n. 主角, stark stB:k adj. 刻板的,荒涼的anomalous EnRmElEs adj. 不規(guī)則的, 反常的 outrage autreidV n. 暴行, 侮辱flashy flAFi adj. 浮華的 quintessential 7kwintEseFEl adj. 精萃的, 精髓的savvy sAvi adj. 有見識和精明能干的難句突破At some point, however, it became plain that all this was not really the playwrights characters talking about the world so much as he, August Wilson, doing what great writers do: building a world through his characters words.主體句式 It became plain that 結(jié)構(gòu)分析 句子主干的that后面跟的是一個(gè)主語從句，從句的主干為all this was not really so much as ，而冒號后面的部分是補(bǔ)充說明前面的“what treat writers do”。句子譯文 然而，我們卻可以清晰的看出，從某種意義上來說，所有這些與其說是作品中的人物在談?wù)搶@個(gè)世界的看法,不如說是奧古斯特威爾遜本人和其他偉大作家一樣,通過筆下人物之口來構(gòu)建起一個(gè)世界。題目分析1C. 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段最后一句，顯而易見答案C最符合題意。2D. 態(tài)度題。文章第二段中提到Wilson獲得了一個(gè)作家能夠獲得的所有獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，而且他的作品能夠給人一種無可匹敵的快感，因此說明了他的作品是廣受歡迎的。3C. 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第三段第一句說明了這部戲劇是以20世紀(jì)的最后，即90年代為背景的。4B. 語義題。從第三、四段的小說情節(jié)描述中，應(yīng)該可以發(fā)現(xiàn)Harmond Wilks是該作品的主角。5A. 態(tài)度題。文章最后一段的第一句話指出該部作本是的系列作品中最薄弱的一部，由此可見的態(tài)度。參考譯文在二十世紀(jì)六十年代晚期，一名23歲的高中輟學(xué)學(xué)生在匹茲堡的希爾區(qū)創(chuàng)建了一個(gè)劇團(tuán)。希爾區(qū)是他成長的地方，這里主要居住著黑人，正是這個(gè)地方使他迷上了寫作。在他的早期作品中，有一部以狹小陰暗的吉普賽個(gè)體出租汽車辦公室為背景,講述了發(fā)生在那里的瑣事：一群家伙在一起聊侃、漫罵、談?wù)撨@個(gè)世界。然而，我們卻可以清晰的看出，從某種意義上來說，所有這些與其說是作品中的人物在談?wù)搶@個(gè)世界的看法,不如說是奧古斯特威爾遜本人和其他偉大作家一樣，通過筆下人物之口建立起來的一個(gè)世界。經(jīng)過了20年的修改和潤色，這部作品成為了名為五分硬幣十部系列劇之一。每一部都對應(yīng)著20世紀(jì)的各個(gè)不同的年代，且除了一部以外，都以希爾區(qū)為背景。這個(gè)戲劇系列被稱為匹茲堡圈子，它們?yōu)橥栠d贏得了一個(gè)劇作家可以贏得的一切獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)。毫無疑問，我們可以認(rèn)為這些戲講述了美國黑人的經(jīng)歷，但這種說法過于高尚。威爾遜能夠很好地捕捉日常對話的節(jié)奏和幽默，他筆下的人物通過語言來進(jìn)行自我展示的方式給人帶來的快感在美國舞臺(tái)上是無可匹敵的。高爾夫電波在兩個(gè)意義上成為這個(gè)系列的