高考英语一轮复习专训四阅读与语法填空
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As a Chinese, you sing or hear the national anthem March of the Volunteers (《义勇军进行曲》) many times. You know it was produced by lyricist Tian Han and composer Nie Er. But do you really know its origin and influences?
    During this year’s National Day holiday, the animated short documentary The Song of New China (《新中国之歌》) became a hot topic online. It tells the behind-the-scenes stories prior to and after the birth of the anthem and how it spread to the entire world in the last century.
    It was a collaboration of Turkmenistan director Kristina Grigoryan and Chinese producer Tian Hongmin. Both of them are from Shanghai University. “We were really interested in the birth of March of the Volunteers,” Tian said. “But we were wondering how to give such an in-depth and grand topic a sense of novelty.”
    The group spent almost three weeks on the project. They devoted themselves to searchin
g through and reading over 100,000 words of written historical records. To gain more useful information, they visited the National Anthem Gallery and many historical sites in Shanghai. 
    Grigoryan was not so familiar with the development of Chinese history in modern times. “So we compiled all materials chronologically (按时间顺序),” Tian said. “I would explain the historical background to Kristina.” 
    With all the detailed materials, Grigoryan and Tian decided to focus on how the anthem was created and sung worldwide.
    “Honestly, as a Chinese, I had no idea about the international influence of our anthem,” Tian said. It was originally the main theme song of the movie Children of Troubled Times (《风云儿女》, 1935). 
    Thanks to patriot Liu Liangmo, the song was shared with the world. Liu went to the United States, where he met American singer and political activist Paul Robeson. He then s
hared the song with Robeson. You can see a clip in the documentary in which Robeson sang March of the Volunteers in Mandarin to call for support against Japanese aggression. Later, it was sung in all the battlefields against fascism (法西斯主义) around the world.
    “After learning the story, I was overwhelmed by a strong sense of patriotic enthusiasm,” Tian said. To promote the story to the public, they used the creative method of stop motion animation (定格动画). Grigoryan had to take thousands of photos and play back the individual images consecutively, giving the illusion of movement. 
    The process was time-consuming. But Grigoryan thought it was worthwhile. “I want to tell a Chinese story in an innovative and funny way and spread it all over the world,” she told Shanghai Media Group.
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1. What do we know about The Song of New China?
A. It’s an animation made by Chinese students.
B. It was inspired by A Poem of The Great Wall.
C. It focuses on Chinese history in the last century. 
D. It creatively shows the birth of the national anthem.
2. What are paragraphs 4-5 mainly about?
A. The novelty of the documentary.
B. The efforts behind the documentary.
C. The process of making the animation.
D. The difficulties the group encountered.
3. Who played a key role in promoting March of the Volunteers? 
A. Nie Er.
B. Liu Liangmo.
C. Paul Robeson.
D. Kristina Grigoryan.
4. What’s the main purpose of the article?
A. To recommend an animated short documentary.
B. To explain the popularity of the national anthem.
C. To tell the story behind The Song of New China. 
D. To introduce the origin of March of the Volunteers. 
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    Writing a book is a long and challenging process, but new technology is increasingly making it easier for authors to finish their books. 
    Michael Green, a US data scientist-turned-novelist, felt that technology could help him simplify the writing process when he was in the middle of writing his debut (首部) book. 
    He said that the process had become difficult to manage: “In the midst of editing (编辑), I got to the point where I started feeling like I had a lot of plots and characters,” he told the BBC. 
    “I had all these documents on the deeper aspects of the world I was creating. I was worried about being able to keep track of it all. That’s when I switched into my more data science-minded approach to solving a complex problem with a lot of different pieces.” 
    Green went on to create Lynit, a digital platform (平台) to help authors plan and weave (编织) together the many elements that form a story, such as themes, characters, and major events.