专题09 节假日活动-五年高考（2014-2018年）英语阅读理解话题分类解读与训练 Word版含解析.docVIP

专题09节假日活动 ＂节假日活动＂是高中英语新课标话题之一，也是高考英语常考话题之一。它包括世界各地的文化节日、宗教节日、个人的庆祝活动及其庆祝这些活动的经历和感受等。 节假日活动作为一个有效的文化载体，在高考英语中常以阅读理解、短文改错和书面表达的形式出现，如2017年新课标卷I阅读理解C篇、2016年全国卷Ⅲ阅读理解C篇、2016年四川卷和全国卷Ⅱ的短文改错、2015年全国卷II书面表达、2013年辽宁卷的书面表达等。 Passage 1（2017年·新课标卷I） 体裁 话题 词数 难度 建议时间 说明文 4月30日定为国际爵士日 352 ★★★☆☆ 7分钟 Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures. Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations. It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture. ＂Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,＂ Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. ＂What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.＂ Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. ＂The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,＂ says Moran. Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, ＂just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,＂ says Moran. ＂For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker re