2016年高考总复习优化英语课件（四川专用）阅读教程：Module10_高考复习指南

2016年高考总复习优化英语课件（四川专用）阅读教程：Module10

　　(2011年高考山东卷) Arthur Miller(1915～2005)is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary,drawn like so many others by the“ Great American Dream”.

　　例 However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s. Millers’ s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system,with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth.

　　In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his worth.

　　Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment : if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success.

　　He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end. When it was first staged in 1949,the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews,and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut,on the evening of February 10,2005,the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway. 58.What can we learn about Willy Loman? A. He treats his employer badly. B. He runs the Wagner Company. C. He is a victim of the American system. D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues. 【解析】　推理判断题.从上文介绍情节中得知Willy Loman是戏剧中一个角色,而这个角色最终因为在这个制度中屡遭失败自杀身亡,因此推断他是美国制度的受害者. 【答案】　C 跟踪训练 Learning English is one of the few things I have been doing consistently over the past 16 years. Like most Chinese students, I started learning English because it was a compulsory (必修的) course in my middle school. More importantly, English was a central subject for the college entrance exam. At that time, studying English was not a pleasant experience for me. There was no fun in the process of learning. The focus of our English education was getting a good mark in exams. And nobody told me that the real meaning of studying mother language was communication. When I became a university student, I spent nearly half of my time on English. In fact, more than 90 percent of the job offer ads in Shanghai list“proficiency (精通)” as a main requirement. How did I improve my English? People told me that TOEFL was very helpful and useful. As a result,