（新课标）天津市2018届高考英语二轮复习 第三部分 阅读理解 专题能力训练十一 阅读理解（二）.docVIP

专题能力训练十一　阅读理解(二) A (2017·天津红桥区二模,B) Long ago,poems were recited out loud instead of being written down.Back when the Greeks first started the Olympics,they held poetry contests as well as athletic competitions. Now,poetry competitions have been revived.This year 120,000 high school students competed in the first Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest,performing poems from memory for $100,000 in prizes. The first competitions were held in classrooms.The winners went on to schoolwide contests,and then they competed in city and state competitions,and then the 50 state champions,along with the District of Columbia champion,came to Washington,D.C.,last week for the last showdown(对决).After the 51 champions competed against one another,12 went on to the finals.Then the field was narrowed to five.The final five had one last chance to “perform” a poem.The overall champ,Jackson Hille,a high school senior from Ohio,won a $20,000 scholarship. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from reading it on the page. It’s not just a matter of saying the words in the right order.It’s the tone of voice,the pauses,the gestures,and the attitude of the person performing that bring the words to life.“Each time we hear somebody recite a poem,we understand again what we found fresh and interesting about it,”says National Public Radio broadcaster Scott Simon,master of ceremonies for the finals.Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener. Not only do the people hearing poems have a new experience,memorizing and presenting poems helps the participants understand those poems in a new way.Another benefit of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn public-speaking skills that can help them for life. 【语篇导读】这是一篇记叙文。文章介绍了很久以前诗歌是大声背诵出来的,而不是写下来的,而现在诗歌比赛已经复活,重新受到青睐。 1.Fromthefirstparagraph,wecanknow　　　.? A.theGreekswerethefirsttowr