1 . Born in Anhui Province, Tao Xingzhi (October18, 1891-July 25, 1946) was one of the greatest educationalists, social activists and patriots in modern China. When he was young, Tao lived in a poverty-stricken area and had witnessed miserable life of Chinese people, especially that of the peasants who accounted for 80% of the nation’s population, under the suppression of foreign invaders (外国侵略者的压迫) at that time.
After graduating from Nanjing University as the top student with the highest scores in all courses, Tao set out for the US to further his education. At first, he studied politics in University of Illinois but soon he found that politics offered no help for saving the country, and then he changed his major into education.
Six-year experience abroad let Tao Xingzhi come to realize the sharp contrast between China and developed countries, and drove him to make up his mind to change the situation in China. Tao declined a number of invitations from many famous universities and gave up high salaries as a college professor. Instead, he set up Xiaozhuang Normal School in the countryside of Nanjing to develop educational cause in rural areas. When he returned to China from Japan in 1939, Tao set up Yu Cai School in Sichuan Province for the kids who lost their family in Anti-Japanese War (抗日战争). He picked out those with special talents and trained them to be useful men for the nation. Zhou Enlai, former Chinese premier, once paid a visit to this school and gave a high praise.
As an educationalist, Tao devoted his entire life to the educational-cause for Chinese. Quite different from other major educationalists at that time, Tao carried out life education and said that “life education means an education of life, by life and for life”. Because of overtoil (积劳成疾), he died on July 25, 1946 in Shanghai. Chairman Mao praised him as “a great educationalist for the people”. In memory of this great man, Tao Xingzhi Museum was built in Shanghai in 1986.
1. The underlined phrase “accounted for” in the first paragraph has the same meaning of the phrase “______”.| A．depended on | B．took up | C．carried out | D．put off |
| A．Mr Tao returned from Japan to China |
| B．Mr Tao set up Yu Cai School in Sichuan Province |
| C．Mr Tao picked out some with special talents and trained them |
| D．Mr Tao established Xiaozhuang Normal School in Nanjing |
| A．Tao Xingzhi’s great contribution | B．Tao Xingzhi’s diseases |
| C．Tao Xingzhi’s daily life | D．Tao Xingzhi’s educational theories |
| A．a tourist website | B．an entertainment website |
| C．an educational website· | D．a scientific research website |
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3 . Twenty-five years ago, Florence Griffith Joyner, known as “Flo-Jo” died in her sleep, leaving behind a legacy that combined style and speed in the world of track and field. She was celebrated for her remarkable achievements, particularly during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
During the Olympic qualifiers in 1988, Flo-Jo broke the 100-meter world record with an amazing time of 10.49 seconds. She continued to amaze the world by breaking the 200-meter world record in the same Olympics, crossing the finish line in 21.34 seconds with her iconic style, including long painted nails and colorful one-legged running suits.
Griffith Joyner’s success extended beyond the track. She won two more gold medals at the Seoul Olympics, in the 100 meters and the 4×100-meter relay events, making her an international star. She landed endorsement (代言) deals in Japan, and appeared in American television shows like “Santa Barbara” and “227”. And there was even had a doll modeled after her by LJN Toys.
However, Flo-Jo’s Olympic achievements were not without controversy. In 1989, former American track athlete Darrell Robinson alleged (指称) that Griffith Joyner provided him with money to purchase growth hormones. She strongly denied these accusations, and despite persistent rumors, she never tested positive for any banned substances during her career.
The International Olympic Committee’s medical commission conducted strict drug testing on Flo-Jo during the 1988 Olympics, and she consistently tested negative. She faced questions about the allegations throughout her career but maintained her innocence.
In 1989, just five months after her great success in Seoul, Griffith Joyner announced her retirement from track, explaining that she couldn’t give her all to training as she used to. She transitioned into motherhood, pursued a career in fashion design, and designed NBA uniforms for the Indiana Pacers in 1990.
Flo-Jo’s legacy endures, as she revolutionized women’s sprinting with her exceptional speed and unique fashion sense. Florence Griffith Joyner remains an iconic figure in the world of sports, remembered for her incredible talent, groundbreaking achievements, and unapologetic style.
1. What do we know about Griffith Joyner according to the passage?| A．She passed away in America in 1989. |
| B．She benefited a lot from her running suits. |
| C．She pursued a career in fashion before her success. |
| D．She was very impressive at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. |
| A．Unexpected. | B．Splendid. | C．Struggling. | D．Rewarding. |
| A．Public false accusations. | B．Her health problems. |
| C．Her shift in life priorities. | D．Persuasion from her family. |
| A．History. | B．Culture. | C．Science. | D．Entertainment. |
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2. 钦佩她或他的原因；
3. 表达向他学习的决心。
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2.可适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。
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5 . German artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash to make sculptures (雕塑). “We are living in a time of garbage,” says Schult “I created a thousand sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves. ” Here, Schult was talking about his 1,000 trash sculptures in the form of humans.
“They are social sculptures,” he explained. “They are not only the sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.” So far, Schult’s social sculptures have been on the show in Paris, in Moscow’s Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Great Pyramid of Giza near Cairo.
HA Schult’s work is unforgettable. Although his work has had a big influence on the art world, Schult remains modest about his creation, “Artists have to learn every time. We are not important. All that counts is the time in which we are living.”
Trash art has been around for years. But it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with trash. Why can’t ordinary people be considered artists when they use the same things and change them into some form of personal art? Maybe it’s because we all have our own presumption (设想) of what art is and isn’t or whom artists are or should be.
You can be artist like Schult if you try. Look at used metal cans. What might be done with them? Imagine them in any number of new uses, or imagine them simply as an art form. What about boxes or clothing. Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for pets. And clothing? Imagine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or bags.
1. What do we know about Schult’s sculptures?| A．They served as garbage containers. |
| B．They reflected environmental issues. |
| C．They were first shown in Paris. |
| D．They were to raise economic awareness. |
| A．An artist should be socially responsible. |
| B．An artist should be as knowledgeable as possible. |
| C．An artist should make garbage recyclable. |
| D．An artist must take diverse artist forms. |
| A．It takes talent to be a trash artist. |
| B．Presumptions are important to artists. |
| C．Trash art can’t be seen as a real art of form. |
| D．Average people can also make trash artists. |
| A．Could You Be a Trash Artist? |
| B．What Are Social Sculptures? |
| C．Do You Know about a New Form of Personal Art? |
| D．How Can We Deal with Used Cans? |
6 . French writer Annie Eraux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature on Oct 6. She is the first French female to win the prize. In the words of the Nobel Committee, Emaux was given the award “for the courage and amazing insight” of her writing.
Having spent over five decades as a writer, the 82-year-old winner has published more than 20 books to her name, including Cleaned Out (1974) , Shame (1997) and A Girl’s Story (2016) .
Rather than consider herself a writer of fiction, Eraux has used the term “an ethnologist (民族学家)of herself” to describe herself.
Born in 1940 in a rural village in Normandy, France, Ernaux grew up in a working-class environment as her parents ran a combined grocery store and cafe. She worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Her upbringing features heavily in her novels, as well as her experiences navigating adolescence and adulthood. For example, the book Shame explores the theme of childhood trauma (创伤) while A Girl’s Story follows a young woman’s coming of age in the 1950s.
Though the matters Ernaux describes in her books are serious and even sometimes heavy, they are always written in a plain language. Emaux described her style as “flat writing” through which she aims to tell her stones objectivelv. “Unshaped by florid (过多修饰的) description or overwhelming emotions, noted Fox News.”
“She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her jealousy, her experiencesas an abandoned lover and so forth. I mean, really hard experiences,” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said after the award announcement in Stockholm. He added, “She gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving.”
1. What can we learn about Annie Ernaux from the text?| A．She is a full-time writer all her life. |
| B．She is the first French person to win the Nobel Prize. |
| C．The Nobel Committee described her as “an ethnologist of herself”. |
| D．She was awarded for the bravery and observations shown in her writing. |
| A．Her students’lives. | B．Her personal experiences. |
| C．The history of her hometown. | D．The stories of guests in her cafe. |
| A．Plain and relaxing. | B．Descriptive and serious. |
| C．Emotional and touching. | D．Objective and easy to understand. |
| A．She suffered a lot of hardships. | B．Her works are short and moving. |
| C．Her works are about unexplored subjects. | D．She shares painful feelings through her writing. |
7 . FAMOUS CHINESE PAINTINGS, ARTISTIC TREASURES
With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the most unique nations. Over many centuries, Chinese artists have created paintings that are now in the hearts of more than a billion people.
Nymph of the Luo River — Gu Kaizhi
The legend has it that Cao Zhi, a prince of the state of Cao Wei, fell in love with the governor’s daughter. However, she married his brother, Cao Pi, and the prince became upset. Later, he composed an emotional poem about the love between the goddess and common people. In the 4th century, Gu Kaizhi, a Chinese artist, was moved by the story and illustrated the poem.
Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers — Zhou Fang
During the Tang Dynasty, China had a prosperous economy and flourishing culture. In this period, the genre of “beautiful women painting” enjoyed popularity. Coming from a noble background, Zhou Fang, a Chinese artist, created artworks in this genre. In his painting, the ladies stand as though they were fashion models, but one of them is entertaining herself by teasing a cute dog.
Along the River During the Qingming Festival — Zhang Zeduan
Zhang Zeduan depicted the landscape in his work Along the River During the Qingming Festival. However, instead of concentrating on the vastness of nature, he captured the daily life of the people of Bianjing, present-day Kaifeng. His work shows much about life in the Northern Song Dynasty.
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains — Wang Ximeng
Not only did officials and scholars enjoy listening to music but they also found pleasure in depicting nature. One such painter was Wang Ximeng. He was a prodigy. Wang Ximeng painted A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains when he was only seventeen years old. He died at the age of twenty, but he left one of the largest and most beautiful paintings in Chinese history.
1. What can we learn from this passage?| A．Zhou Fang painted fashion models in his painting. |
| B．Nymph of the Luo River is a poem written by Cao Zhi. |
| C．Wang Ximeng created his masterpiece two years before he died. |
| D．Zhang Zeduan’s painting was set in the Northern Song Dynasty. |
| A．Nymph of the Luo River — Gu Kaizhi |
| B．Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers — Zhou Fang |
| C．A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains — Wang Ximeng |
| D．Along the River During the Qingming Festival — Zhang Zeduan |
| A．Business. | B．Culture. | C．Travel. | D．Lifestyle. |
8 . Leonardo da Vinci and Nature
In the modern world, art and science are two very separate activities, but in Leonardo’s time they were closely connected. Science meant mathematics and medical studies.
Mathematics was also connected to music because musical sounds have a fixed relationship with each other that can be described in numbers.
“Nature has kindly given us things everywhere to copy,” wrote Leonardo. In all his activities, Leonardo was trying to discover the rules that control nature. In his search for those rules, he looked very carefully at a lot of examples and details. Actual experience was more important to him than the opinion, and he worked from facts to ideas.
| A．Mathematicians and doctors worked to discover the unknown. |
| B．Leonardo’s ideas were vastly ahead of his time. |
| C．How could these be connected with art? |
| D．Leonardo was always drawing. |
| E．Above all, Leonardo wanted to understand how and why things worked. |
| F．Leonardo himself was a very good musician and liked to play an instrument and sing. |
| G．You will see a good example of such positioning in the painting of The Last Supper. |
9 . The French writer Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. The 82-year-old writer is the 16th French writer and the first Frenchwoman to receive the literature prize. In congratulating her, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron said that she was the voice of the freedom of women.
Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in 1940 and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of town. She studied at universities, qualified as a school teacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971. In the early 1970s, Ernaux taught at a college, before joining the National Centre Distance Education, where she was employed for 23 years.
Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with Cleaned Out, an autobiographical novel. In 1984 she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her works A Man’s Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France. A Woman’s Story was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Ernaux’s 2008 historical memoir The Years was well-received by French critics. It is the story of a woman and of the society she lived in. The Years won the 2009 Telégramme Readers Prize and the 2016 Strega European Prize. Translated by Alison L. Strayer, The Years was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019. Her popularity increased sharply after The Years was shortlisted for the international Booker.
“Her path to authorship was long and difficult, and the story is serious but the language is plain,” Anders Olsson of the Swedish Academy said on Thursday as he announced her award. “And when she with great courage and sharpness shows the physical or mental pain of the experience of class, combining historic and individual experiences to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and lasting.” Anders Olsson added.
1. What does Macron think of Annie Ernaux?| A．She has a bad memory of her childhood. | B．She is the 82nd French writer ever awarded. |
| C．She is concerned about women’s freedom. | D．She is the most outstanding woman writer. |
| A．Cleaned Out. | B．The Years. | C．A Woman’s Story. | D．A Man’s Place. |
| A．Most of her books are about French history. | B．She began her writing career at a young age. |
| C．Her book is closely related to her strict father. | D．She wrote the book based on her own experiences. |
| A．Hold your horses. | B．Hang on to your dreams. |
| C．Success doesn’t happen overnight. | D．Quitters never win and winners never quit. |
1. How many Grammy Awards has John Legend won?
| A．One. | B．Six. | C．Nine. |
| A．Four. | B．Seven. | C．Eight. |
| A．He met Lauryn Hill. | B．He wrote his first song. | C．He finished college. |
| A．A poet. | B．His college teacher. | C．A famous songwriter |
