4. 分析:空格前句是长句子,从句子中出现的词语(bright colors, checkered jackets and trousers, hats and socks)来看,是在举例,猜测A是答案?(因为这些词语C中的‘非正式的服装’有关),接下来先做第5题。第5题的答案是D,因此现在只有两个选项:C和E。而段落第1句(概括句)说“这个持续的过程能够被最清楚看到的两大领域是服装和音乐” ,因此判断该段文字应该主要讨论“服装和音乐”,因此判断C是答案。
提示:“避重就轻法”+“主题句确定段落语意法”
The situation with American popular music is more complex because in the beginning, when it was still clearly American , it was often strongly resisted. Jazz was once thought to be a great danger to youth and their morals, and was actually outlawed in several countries. Today, while still showing its rather American roots, it has become so well established. Rock ‘n’ roll and all its variations, country & western music, all have more or less similar histories. They were first resisted, often in American as well, as being “low-class,” and then as “a danger to our nation’s youth.” _______5_______ And then the music became accepted and was extended and developed, and exported back to the U.S..
5.D.分析:空格前句中看到“他们最初被作为…被拒绝”,“拒绝”与D中的“禁止”呼应, 而D放在空格处正好构成了“观点+例子”的逻辑结构,因此推测D是答案,而且在前文中出现了D中提到的Rock ‘n’ roll,因此判断D是答案。
Passage 2
Einstein Named “Person of Century”
Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe.was chosen as “Person of the Century” by Time magazine on Sunday.
A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius,Einstein has come to
represent more than any other person the flowering of 20th century scientific thought that set the stage for the age of technology.
“The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history.The reason is not political or economic,but technological——technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science,’’wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einstein’s significance. (1)