Question

【題目】閱讀理解。

The Japanese like parties.From ancient times, a party becomes enlivened (活潑) when someone starts singing and others keep applauding.Having such a custom, the Japanese can easily sing in front of others without feeling embarrassed.This seems to be one of the reasons that karaoke has been largely accepted in Japanese society.

It is now widely recognized that the use of karaoke started at a snack bar in Kobe City, one of the three biggest cities in Japan.It is said that when a guitarist could not come to perform at the bar due to illness, the owner of the bar prepared tapes of accompaniment recordings, and people enjoyed singing to the tapes.

It was at that time that karaoke appeared.Holding a microphone and singing a song to the accompaniment of an “orchestra (管弦樂隊)”， you can feel like a professional singer.For soldiers living in a stressful society, there is no other entertainment activity that can make them feel so refreshed.

It is a typical way to relax for Japanese businessmen.They use it to take away their stress after work.However, there is an obstacle to this: since most Japanese houses are still made of wood, it would be very annoying to the neighbors to sing into a microphone at night.Seizing upon the opportunity, businessmen created the karaoke box, a roadside facility containing karaoke equipment.Karaoke boxes are soundproofed rooms, closed with a door, placed on roadsides where people can sing.The first “Karaoke box” was placed in a rice camp in the countryside in 1984.It was built from a converted freight car (改裝的貨運車).Now, the karaoke boom has even spread abroad and it has also been attracting the attention of the countries trying to improve their literacy rate (識字率) as a good educational tool.

【1】According to the text, we can learn that karaoke ________.

A.originated from the biggest city of Japan

B.originated in the form of singing to tapes

C.can help you achieve the level of professional singers

D.first appeared in the army to relieve stress for soldiers

【2】The underlined word “soundproofed” in Paragraph 4 most probably means “________”.

A.recording sounds repeatedly

B.receiving sound signals

C.making sound more clear

D.stopping sound from being heard outside

【3】What can be inferred from the text?

A.Karaoke was started in a bar during a party.

B.A guitarist was the originator who brought the karaoke into being.

C.Karaoke was very common as a form of entertainment at home when it was born.

D.Karaoke is used as a way of education in some countries.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A.What karaoke boxes are like.

B.How karaoke boxes were created.

C.The origins and development of karaoke.

D.Karaoke becomes a popular form of entertainment.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】D

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析：

【1】B 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段可知，卡拉OK起源于日本神戶市的一間小吃店，這家小店因為吉他手生病不能演奏，店主就錄制了吉他手的樂曲，歌手唱歌時播放錄制的音樂，因此可知A項錯誤，神戶市并不是日本最大的城市，B項正確。根據(jù)第三段“feel like a professional singer”可知，卡拉OK讓你的歌聲聽起來像專業(yè)歌手的歌聲，并不能讓你真正達到專業(yè)歌手水平，故排除C。文章第三段提到卡拉OK是士兵緩解壓力的不二方式，但卡拉OK并非誕生于軍營，故排除D。

【2】D 詞義猜測題。根據(jù)畫線單詞前后語境可知，由于日本的房子大都是木房子，隔音效果差，因此唱歌時會影響周圍居民的生活，商人抓住這一商機發(fā)明了包廂，這是一種關(guān)閉門窗，置于路邊的隔音效果較好的房子。因此根據(jù)語境可以推斷soundproofed意思是“隔音的”，故D項符合題意。

【3】D 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段最后一句中的“attracting the attention of the countries trying to improve their literacy rate (識字率) as a good educational tool”可知D項正確。卡拉OK起源于一家小吃店，由于吉他手生病，店主想出了用錄制音樂伴奏的法子，故推斷A和B均錯誤。根據(jù)最后一段可知由于噪音大影響鄰居，因此卡拉OK的發(fā)展受到限制，故推斷C項錯誤。

【4】C 主旨大意題。本文介紹了卡拉OK的起源和發(fā)展，故選C。