英语周报2023-2024年学年八年级上册人教版第1期参考答案

英语周报2023-2024年学年八年级上册人教版第1期参考答案

Twenty-first century humanity has mapped oceans and mountains, visited the moon, and surveyed the planets. But for all the progress, people still don’t know one another very well.

That brings about Theodore Zeldin’s “feast of conversation”－events where individuals pair with persons they don’t know for three hours of guided talk designed to forget the past “Where are you from?”

Mr. Zeldin, an Oxford University professor, heads Oxford Muse, a 10-year-old foundation based on the idea that what people need is not more information, but more inspiration and encouragement.

The “feast” in London looks not at politics or events, but at how people have felt about work, relations among the sexes, hopes and fears, enemies and authority, the shape of their lives. The “menu of conversation” includes topics like “How have your priorities changed over the years?” Or, “What have you rebelled against the past?”

As participants gathered, Zeldin opened with a speech: that despite instant communications in a globalized age, issues of human heart remain. Many people are lonely, or in routines that discourage knowing the depth of one another. “We are trapped in shallow conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful,” he says. “But thinking interaction is what separates us from other species, except maybe dogs…who do have generations of human interactions.”

The main rules of the “feast”: Don’t pair with someone you know or ask questions you would not answer. The only awkward moment came when the multi-racial crowd of young adults to seniors, in sun hats, ties and dresses, looked to see whom with for hours. But 15 minutes later, everyone was seated and talking, continuing full force until organizers interrupted them 180 minutes later.

“It’s encouraging to see the world is not just a place of oppression and distance from each other,” Zeldin summed up. “What we did is not ordinary, but it can’t be madder than the world already is.”

Some said they felt “liberated” to talk on sensitive topics. Thirty-something Peter, from East London, said that “it might take weeks or months to get to the level of interaction we suddenly opened up.”

1.What can the “conversations” be best described as?

A. Deep and one-on-one. B. Sensitive and mad.

C. Instant and inspiring. D. Ordinary and encouraging.

2.In a “feast of conversations”, participants ______.

A. pair freely with anyone they like

B. have a guided talk for a set of period of time

C. ask questions they themselves would not answer

D. wear clothes reflecting multi-racial features.

3.From the passage, we can conclude that what Zeldin does is ______.

A. an attempt to promote thinking interaction

B. one of the maddest activities ever conducted

C. a try to liberate people from old-fashioned ideas

D. an effort to give people a chance of talking freely

英语周报2023-2024年学年八年级上册人教版第1期参考答案试题答案

1.A

2.B

3.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了在英国进行的一项feast of conversation，这是人与人之间进行地深入的探讨人生理想及很多生活方面问题的活动，旨在于推断人们之间的思维交流。

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考点：考查人生百态类短文阅读

In the late nineteenth century, ^5,000 pianos were sold in the United States each year and, with over half a million youths learning to play the instrument, there was a huge demand for sheet music （活页乐谱）.Indeed the demand was so huge that publishers rushed to enter the profitable market.During the last fifteen years of the century, many publishers began to set up shops in New York, the center for the production of the musical arts
By the turn of the nineteenth century many important publishers had their offices on 28^th Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue, and this Is the area that became known as Tin Pan Alley.It was here that publishers adopted new, aggressive business practices and marketing techniques to achieve great sales.
How it became to be known by that name is unclear, but the general opinion is that it is down to a visiting journalist by the name of Monroe Rosenfeld.He described the area as being drowned in the noise coming from the producers’ offices, sounding as though hundreds of people were hitting tin pans（锡锅）.He used it several times in his newspaper articles in the early twentieth century and the term stuck.With time this name was popularly embraced and many years later it came to describe the U.S.music publishing industry in general.
The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885,.but the end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear-cut .Some date it to the start of the Great.Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph（留声机） and radio replaced sheet music, as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into thel950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged （抢风头） by the rise of rock & roll.
There’s a plaque（纪念匾牌）on the sidewalk on 28th Street in honor of the influence of Tin Pan Alley on American popular culture, but the buildings that were home to the legendary Tin Pan Alley publishers and songwriters are up for sale and may be torn down to make room for modern high-rise buildings.

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   What.is the passage mainly about ?                     

   1. A.American popular music.
   2. B.Tin Pan Alley’s future。
   3. C.American music Industry.
   4. D.The history of Tin Pan Alley.
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   In the early 20th century.Tin Pan Alley was used to refer to ____.

   1. A.the American popular culture.
   2. B.the American printing media
   3. C.the American rock-music center
   4. D.the American music publishing industry.
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   In the nineteenth century, the driving force of American popular music was:____.

   1. A.rock & roll
   2. B.sheet music
   3. C.country music
   4. D.phonographs and radios
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   When visiting Tin Pan Alley , Rosenfeld probably felt it was ____.

   1. A.very noisy
   2. B.very quiet
   3. C.wide
   4. D.narrow
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   We can learn from the passage that ______.

   1. A.the term ” Tin Pan Alley” was perhaps first used by Rosenfeld.
   2. B.the old shops of Tin Pan Alley will be well protected.
   3. C.Tin Pan Alley got its name in the early nineteenth century.
   4. D.there were once some factories in Tin Pan Alley

英语周报2023-2024年学年八年级上册人教版第1期参考答案试题答案DDBAA
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