高考英语真题2005-2011--阅读部分.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 30 PAGE 29 目 录  TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551980 山东省高考英语阅读真题  PAGEREF _Toc297551980 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551981 2011  PAGEREF _Toc297551981 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551982 2010  PAGEREF _Toc297551982 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551983 2009  PAGEREF _Toc297551983 \h 11  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551984 2008  PAGEREF _Toc297551984 \h 14  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551985 2007  PAGEREF _Toc297551985 \h 18  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551986 2006  PAGEREF _Toc297551986 \h 22  HYPERLINK \l _Toc297551987 2005  PAGEREF _Toc297551987 \h 26  山东省高考英语阅读真题 2011 A 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”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s. Millers most famous play, Death of a SaIesman, 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 this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he cant do the work, then he is no good tohis employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at 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 F