When Wang Haiyan was young, her favorite toys weren’t Barbie dolls. Instead, she started learning to make shadow puppets( 皮影 ) from her father at 13. Now 43, Wang has spent 30 years practicing and spreading the art.
Shadow puppetry is a form of theater that uses puppets made from leather( 皮 ) or paper, accompanied( 伴奏 ) by music and singing. It was invented during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC—AD 24). It tells us about folk tales and historical stories, passing down culture and customs over thousands of years.
Shadow puppetry is all about creating the puppets and performing with them. Wang’s hometown of Hua county, Shanxi, is known as the birthplace of the folk art.
Puppet—makers must follow 24 steps to make the puppets including washing the leather, carving( 雕刻 ) and painting, according to Wang. Carving is the most difficult part.
“We have a special carving skill—moving the leather under the knife,” Wang said. It took Wang three years to master this skill. She used a brick( 砖块 ) to strengthen her left hand while practicing. It takes about 3,000 carves to make a shadow puppet. “The complex ( 复杂的 ) steps make it hard to hand down the folk art,” she said.
But Wang has found a way to do so. In recent years, she has made shadow puppets based on some cartoon series and given a live streaming performance. She used colors like blue and purple that were hardly seen in shadow puppetry and added more sticks to the puppets to make the performance more lively. “I hope more and more young people enjoy shadow puppetry and pass it down,” she said,
1 ． Making the puppets includes the following steps except ________.
A ． painting B ． carving C ． washing the leather D ． making bricks
2 ． What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
A ． Where shadow puppetry was invented.
B ． What shadow puppetry is.
C ． Why people like shadow puppetry.
D ． When Wang began to learn shadow puppetry.
3 ． What does the underlined phrase “hand down” mean in the fifth paragraph?
A ．传承 B ．提高 C ．酷爱 D ．放弃
4 ． Which of the following statements about Wang Haiyan is TRUE?
A ． She learned all by herself to make shadow puppets.
B ． She didn’t master the carving skill until she was 43.
C ． She expected more young people to spread shadow puppetry.
D ． She was more interested in cartoon series than shadow puppetry.
答案
1 ． D
2 ． B
3 ． A
4 ． C
【分析】
本文主要讲述了皮影戏的来历，它的制作过程，以及皮影大师 —— 汪海燕在皮影上的成就。
1 ．
细节理解题。根据 “Puppet—makers must follow 24 steps to make the puppets including washing the leather, carving( 雕刻 ) and painting” 可知，需要清洗皮革，雕刻和绘画这三个步骤，故选 D 。
2 ．
主旨大意题。根据 “Shadow puppetry is a form of theater that uses puppets made from leather( 皮 ) or paper, accompanied( 伴奏 ) by music and singing” 及全段的内容，可知，本段主要介绍了皮影是什么，故选 B 。
3 ．
词义猜测题。根据 “The complex ( 复杂的 ) steps make it hard to hand down the folk art” 可知，这个复杂的工序让它很难传承这个民间艺术，所以 hand down 表示 “ 传承 ” ，故选 A 。
4 ．
推理判断题。根据 “I hope more and more young people enjoy shadow puppetry and pass it down” 可知，她希望越来越多的年轻人能把这项民间艺术传承下去， C 表述正确，故选 C 。
