2014高考英语一轮复习自选训练 阅读理解16.docVIP

2014届高考英语一轮复习维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 agents 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，Widowers Houses and Mrs.Warrens 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 well-known 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 Shaws most successful discussion plays，the audiences 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 Doctors 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 middle-class morality and class distinction，proved some of Shaws greatest successes on the stage.It is a combination of the dramatic，the comic，and the social corrective that gives Shaws comedies their special flavour. Notes： critic n．评论家　②hypocrisy n．伪善　③aesthetic salvation审美救赎 长短句分析：After working in an estate agents office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876)，where he established himself as a leadin