必修二 Module 4 高考拆组训练

　　阅读理解组块专练--练速度

　　(限时：35分钟)

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　Here's a look at Bob Dylan's life through his legendary music.

　　"Song to Woody" (1962)

　　It was released on his debut album Bob Dylan in 1962.Dylan expressed his respect for the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie in this early classic.

　　"The Times They Are A­Changin'" (1963)

　　It was released as the title track of his third album of the same name, which launched him as a major voice in the new folk scene and marked the beginning of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.Critic Michael Gray called it "the archetypical protest song."

　　"Ballad in Plain D" (1964)

　　Dylan details his fractious relationship with Suze Rotolo in this long track from his fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan.Dylan scholar Clinton Heylin called it "an exercise of painful autobiography."

　　"Like a Rolling Stone" (1965)

　　Chosen by Rolling Stone as number one on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, it was from the Highway 61 Revisited album and transformed Dylan's image from a folk singer to a rock star.He wrote it after returning from an exhausting tour of England.He was thinking about quitting the music business, but he worked out his frustrations about the public's demanding expectations of him through this song.

　　"All Along the Watchtower" (1968)

　　After a near­fatal motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan went into seclusion for almost a year.He emerged with one of his greatest artistic achievements with this track from the John Wesley Harding album.Many critics have seen this song as a summing­up of Dylan's life and career.

　　"Gotta Serve Somebody" (1979)

　　In the late 1970s, Dylan underwent a conversion to born­again Christianity, taking five months off touring to attend Bible school.This yearning plea for meaning expressed his new religion.It was part of his Slow Train Coming rock­gospel album.

　　"Things Have Changed" (2000)

Written for the film Wonder Boys, this strange portrait of an aging star shuffling