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根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
US musician and poct Gil Scott-Heron, often called the Godfather of Rap, has died in a New York hospital 62. 1
Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949-the son of a former Britain football player. 2
Scott-Heron’s material covered soul, jazz, blues and the spoken word.His 1970s work heavily influenced the US hip-hop and rap scenes.
3 But the artist himself refused this title.“If ther was any individual initiative that I was responsible for, it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine, with complete progression and repeating “hooks”. 4 ” Soott-Heron wrote in the introduction to his 1990 Now and Then collection of poems.Scott-Heron’s music and poetry showed his ddep interest in justice and civil rights, and he complained against the consumer society of the 1970s and 80s as well as the development of muclear technology.He was among the first artists to use h is music to attack the apartheid(种族隔离)in South Africa, long before the issue became the focus of a popular global campaign. 5 One of his most famous pieces was The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.In this piece, he criticized the role of race in the mass media and advertising age.
But in a 1998 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Scott-Heron wrned against focusing on the political aspect of his work.“If you only focus on the political aspects of our work, you change us.We’ve done 20 albums and not all of the songs on them are political.” He said.
A.But I don’t like football in Britain.
B.His work had a strong political element.
C.He grew up in Tennessee before moving to New York.
D.Scott was so crazy about politics that all of his songs are political.
E.This made them more like songs than just recitations with percussion.
F.The cause of his death is not clear, but he is believed to have become ill after returning from a visit to Europe.
G.The pioneering style he developed while working with Jackson, mixing minimalist percussion with poetry, meant that Scott-Heron was often described as the Godfather of rap.
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F C G E B |
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. 71 According to the report,the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a pleasant one. 72 The population could be as large as 6300 million,almost 2150 million more than in 1985.More people would move into cities ,especially cities in developing countries.Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would each have 15 million by then.
73 Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,but most of the increase would be in countries that already produce enough food for their people. 74 Poor farming ways are destroying large areas of crop land,changing farms into deserts.More farmland is lost as cities become larger and more houses are built.Air pollution will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil.Many of the world's forests could disappear as more and more trees are cut down.Energy will continue to be a serious problem. 75 They only workde out the situation that exists today.By changing the situation,by settling the problems,the picture can be changed.There is still time for the nations of the world to work out a plan of action.But they warned that waiting too long to make de cisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.
A.Food production will increase,but not enough to feed all the people. |
B.The report was a result of a three - year study. |
C.Later on,more reports came out one by one. |
D.The world will be more crowded because the population will continue to grow. |
E.Experts believe enough food will be produced in developing countries very soon.
F.The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010 may be wrong.
G.Little increase is expected in South Asia,Africa and the Middle East.