2016年高考英语二月阅读理解精选（4）_高考复习指南

2016年高考英语二月阅读理解精选（4）

　　2016高考英语（二月）阅读理解精选（4）及答案

　　维B1 阅读理解(每题2分，满分分)

　　选材相似度：★★★★

　　设题相似度：★★★

　　难度系数：★★★★

　　George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was born in Dublin，the son of a civil servant.His education was irregular，due to his dislike of any organized training.After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876)，where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties.He began his literary career as a novelist; he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage.His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)．Among these，Widower's Houses and Mrs.Warren's Profession heavily attack social hypocrisy.

　　In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama，in Back to Methuselah (1921)，although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923)，in which he rewrites the wellknown story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.

　　Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)，and the Lion (1912)．In Major Barbara (1905)，one of Shaw's most successful discussion plays，the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieves aesthetic salvation only through political activity，not as an individual.The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)，is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession.Candida (1898)，with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire，and Pygmalion (1912)，a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middleclass morality and class distinction，proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage.It is a combination of the dramatic，the comic，and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.