5.Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins first meets Eliza Doolittle,a flower girl,near the Royal Opera House,late on a cold March night.Eliza is selling flowers.Higgins is out on his endless search for new dialects of London's speech.
Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can turn the cockney(倫敦腔)flower girl,Eliza Doolittle,into a lady within three months.To do so,he must change her thick London accent,teach her to speak proper English and teach her manners.
Higgins looks upon her not as a person but as raw material for his experiment.He trains Eliza for weeks.When no progress is made,Eliza,loses her courage,Higgins loses his temper,and even Pickering's patience wears thin.
At last she improves.In order to test Eliza,he decides to introduce her to his mother's guests at the Ascot Race Meeting.Eliza proves to be a success.Pickering and Higgins are very proud,and neither of them takes into account Eliza's personal accomplishments in the matter.Eliza has absorbed the sophistication(世故) and the courage to see the unfairness of this,and she blows up,demanding recognition.The Professor is astonished.It is as though a statue has come to life and spoken.Eliza rushes out of the house angrily.
Higgins discovers that he is hurt because Eliza leaves him.He meets her at his mother's flat where she has gone for advice.They argue violently and she storms out.It is only a moment after her departure that Higgins finally wakes up to the fact that Eliza has become an entirely independent and admirable human being.He realizes that he will have a difficult time getting on without her.
25.From the passage we can see thatB.
A.Eliza has made rapid progress during the first week
B.turning Eliza into a"lady"is not an easy job
C.Higgins gives up when no progress is made
D.Pickering often loses his temper when teaching Eliza
26.What does the underlined phrase"blow up"mean in this passage?C.
A.To become very excited.
B.To be very disappointed.
C.To become very angry.
D.To be very interested.
27.Why is Higgins astonished when Eliza demands recognition?D.
A.Because he thought Eliza was only a statue.
B.Because his mother's friends don't like Eliza at all.
C.Because he thinks highly of Eliza's personal achievements.
D.Because he didn't realize that Eliza had become an independent person.
分析 本文節(jié)選自《My Fair Lady》講述的是語音學教授把一位鄉(xiāng)下的賣花女改變成一位說著標準倫敦口音英語的貴婦人形象的故事.
解答 25.答案 B 細節(jié)理解題 由第二段Eliza Doolittle,into a lady within three months.To do so,he must change her thick London accent,teach her to speak proper English and teach her manners可知,將Eliza變成一位"貴婦"不是一件簡單的工作.故答案為B
26.答案 C 詞義猜測題 由下文Eliza rushes out of the house angrily提示,blow up表示"生氣"的意思,故答案為C.
27.答案 D 推理判斷題 由最后一段It is only a moment after her departure that Higgins finally wakes up to the fact that Eliza has become an entirely independent and admirable human being.可知說明以前他不認為Eliza是獨立的,故答案為D.
點評 首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽,掌握全文的主旨大意.因為閱讀理解題一般沒有標題,所以,速讀全文,抓住中心主旨很有必要,在速讀的過程中,應盡可能多地捕獲信息材料.
其次,細讀題材,各個擊破.掌握全文的大意之后,細細閱讀文章后的問題,弄清每題要求后,帶著問題,再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關信息.
要善于抓住每段的主題句,閱讀時,要有較強的針對性.對于捕獲到的信息,要做認真分析,仔細推敲,理解透徹,只有這樣,針對題目要求,才能做到穩(wěn)、準.