艺术，人类的精神家园1

第一部分 语言基础（共两节，满分30 分）

第一节 单句填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

1. We must delay ________（proceed） until the weather improves.

2. In both images， white clouds cast their ________（shadow） onto the land surface below.

3. When I was young， my ________（ambitious） was to be one of the persons who transformed this world.

4. In my opinion， Mr Wu is a ________（motivate） and ambitious young man with concrete goals.

5. The hungry man is now ________（pleasant） enjoying the sausage.

6. From a ________（practice） point of view， it isnt an awesome place to live.

7. The nurse wrapped a bandage ________（tight） around my ankle.

8. If the ________（injure） are secondor thirddegree burns， it is vital to get the victim to the doctor or hospital at once.

9. You are reducing their role to that of a software ________（operate） and wasting the wealth of experience they bring.

10. To sum ________， there are three ways of solving the problem.

11. He is one of the most ________（influence） performers of modern jazz.

12. Antiques ________（date） from the Ming Dynasty （13681644）were found in this area.

13. Todays families mostly have a simple structure ________（consist） of parents and children， and the family members also cooperate clearly.

14. The programme which he was devoted to failed， which made him very ________（frustrate）.

15. You must be patient and persistent if you are ________（succeed）.

第二节 完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

1. 你在这次考试中太粗心了，犯了如此多的错误。（it作形式主语）

___________________________ in this exam.

2. 你认识坐在我们老师旁边的那个女孩吗？（现在分词作后置定语）

Do you know the girl ___________________________？

3. 尽管受到了父母的鼓励，他仍然没有信心克服困难。（过去分词作状语）

___________________________， he still has no confidence in overcoming the difficulties.

4. 吃太多和什么都不吃同样都是坏事。（as...as结构）

To eat too much is ___________________________.

5. 我发现他们有可能会失败。（find的复合结构）

______________________________________________________.

6. 下一步是确保你确切地知道需要什么。（what）

The next step is to make sure that you know exactly ___________________________.

7.我们现在要做的是建立客户和我们之间的信任。（动词不定式）

What we need to do at present is ___________________________.

8. 他虽然处在危险中，但仍然保持镇静。（while）

___________________________， he still kept calm.

9. 事实上，他想要的不是一些钱，而是他们的认可。（not...but）

As a matter of fact， what he wanted was ___________________________.

10. 即使你取得了巨大的突破，你也应该谦虚。（even though/if）

___________________________， you should be modest.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50 分）

第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States，Grandma Moses should be mentioned， although she did not start painting until she was inher late seventies. As she once said to herself，“ I would never sit back in a rocking chair，waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more active old age.

She was born on a farm in New York State， one of five boys and five girls. At 12 sheleft home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses， the hiredhand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives， first in Virginia and then inNew York State， at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children， of whom five survived; her husbanddied in 1927.

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery （刺绣） pictures as a hobby， but only changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff （僵硬的） tosew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at thelocal drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought allthat she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art， and in1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930s and her death， sheproduced some 2000 pictures： careful and lively portrayals of the country life she hadknown for so long， with a wonderful sense of color and form.“ I think really hard till I thinkof something really pretty， and then I paint it，” she said.

1. What can we learn about Grandma Moses？

A. She painted oils as a child.

B. Her marriage life was not happy.

C. She stopped painting in her late seventies.

D. She still led an active life when she was old.

2. What did Grandma Moses spend most of her life doing？

A. Embroidering. B. Nursing.

C. Farming. D. Painting.

3. What does the underlined word“ portrayals” in the last paragraph mean？

A. Descriptions. B. Stages.

C. Surveys. D. Directions.

B

We see art everywhere around us. In parks， city squares， shopping streets and publicbuildings， we find modern art objects on display. Classical art， such as valuable paintingsand precious sculptures， usually ends up as the collections of museums， companies or richpeople.