2016届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读理解极限突破测试卷(26)_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读理解极限突破测试卷(26)

　　A. discussing the advantages of natural habitats

　　B. using evidence he has collected at zoos

　　C. questioning the way animals are protected

　　D. pointing out the faults in what zoos do

　　40. Although he argues against zoos, the author would still agree that _______.

　　A. zoos have to keep animals in small cages

　　B. most animals in zoos are endangered species

　　C. some endangered animals are reproduced in zoos

　　D. it’s acceptable to keep animals away from their habitats

　　【参考答案】36－40. BBADC

　　Passage 3

　　In 1935, the clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, aged just twentysix, left New York with his fourteenpiece “swing” band and, traveling in a ragtag group of cars, headed for the huge Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. It was not an easy trip. There were half a dozen dismal, sparsely attended onenighters and three weeks at a dance hall in Denver, where the band was forced to play waltzes, tangos, and novelty numbers. On the opening night at the Palomar, the band played ballad numbers in the first set, and there was little response from the dancers. Then one of the musicians said, if they were going to bomb again they might well do it in style. So Goodman called for his hot, often uptempo arrangements, many of them by the ingenious black bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson, and the kids stopped dancing, clustered around the bandstand, and began roaring. Before the weeks at the Palomar were over, it was clear that Goodman had suddenly made jazz—still a suspect and largely subliminal American folk music, despite the brilliant inventions during the previous decade of Jelly Roll Morton and others—into a popular music.