1 . Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something that has not been
What
Most artists take shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in
If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(坏疽性的)leg and anther a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a(n)
| A．afforded | B．said | C．involved | D．promised |
| A．visual | B．concert | C．mature | D．opera |
| A．figures | B．volumes | C．words | D．accents |
| A．selection | B．combination | C．translation | D．isolation |
| A．transferring | B．showing | C．infecting | D．granting |
| A．specialized | B．imaginary | C．particular | D．definite |
| A．delight | B．urgency | C．memory | D．advantage |
| A．stock | B．entertainment | C．track | D．motion |
| A．majors | B．choices | C．comments | D．arguments |
| A．tones | B．notes | C．meanings | D．sights |
| A．relatively | B．merely | C．alternatively | D．rightly |
| A．relation | B．contribution | C．reference | D．inference |
| A．irregular | B．odd | C．vague | D．certain |
| A．emphasizing | B．objecting | C．responding | D．commenting |
| A．consult | B．teach | C．command | D．imply |
1. How old was Morpurgo when he started teaching?
| A．24. | B．34. | C．44. |
| A．To get away from teaching. |
| B．To leave him with good memories. |
| C．To expose children to plants and animals. |
| A．Making TV shows. | B．Telling stories. | C．Performing magic. |
| A．War Horse. | B．The Butterfly Lion. | C．My Friend Walter. |
3 . Oprah Winfrey is acknowledged as one of the most powerful women in the world. A TV hostess, a producer, and a philanthropist(慈善家) are among the titles she is known as. She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 1954, and although she was not offered everything on a silver platter, she still overcame her childhood struggles and made her mark in the world.
At age 14, Oprah was abused by a family friend, her cousin, and her uncle. It’s also said that she wore dresses made from potato sacks as her family did not have money to buy her nice clothing. She was also bullied by kids at school. After she was sent to a home for troubled teens, her father moved her to Nashville, Tennessee, where she was able to change her life.
How did Oprah Winfrey overcome the odds and build her career from scratch? It started when she was 19 and won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. This was her first step towards her journey to work in the media. She started her career as a radio and TV host in Nashville. Then she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she hosted a local talk show called “People Are Talking”. This show gained popularity and this eventually led to her own nationally syndicated talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, which ran for 25 seasons and was the highest-rated talk show in the history of television.
Oprah has a heart of gold and has been a supporter of many causes over the course of her career, such as education, health, and wellness. She is also an advocate of women’s rights. She has used her platform to inspire millions of people and motivate even more people. She continues to inspire, teach, and entertain people worldwide through her charity organization known as the Oprah Winfrey Network. She also took a step for the education of girls in South Africa by starting the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy.
The lesson we can learn from Oprah Winfrey’s life is that no matter how hard things get, you can always find the strength to keep going and reach your goals.
1. What does the underlined words “on a silver platter” mean in Paragraph 1?| A．In vain | B．Without effort |
| C．Beyond expectation | D．By accident |
| A．“People Are Talking” |
| B．The radio and TV host in Nashville |
| C．The Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant |
| D．“The Oprah Winfrey Show” |
| A．Caring and modest. | B．Strong and tolerant. |
| C．Humorous and considerate. | D．Ambitious and determined. |
| A．Great minds think alike. |
| B．A slow sparrow should make an early start. |
| C．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
| D．The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future. |
China’s Explosive Artist
Cai Guoqiang’s practice spans from, gunpowder drawings to ephemeral sculptures and monumental installations, all of
Since the 1980s, Cai has been working on drawings realized by
Cai’s
1. 人物事迹简介；
2. 给你的启示。
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1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Good morning, everyone. Today, I’d like to share a story about a man of perseverance.
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Thanks for your listening.
6 . Sports is one of the purest concepts developed. For some, sports is a hobby, others an escape, but for Jason Hills, Post Media Edmonton part-time writer, sports is everything.
At a young age, watching countless hours of sports allowed Hills to process and develop an escape to deal with the childhood painful experience of losing both his parents in a car accident. With so much inside his head, sports provided him with the outlet that millions of people employ daily: being enveloped into “the game.”
Later, as Hills grew into a young man, he began to become involved with school sports. As Hills began to play, the concept of being involved with a university team came into a dream.
Following high school graduation, Hills realized that university athletics might not be in the cards, but was still very determined to have sports play a major role in his life. So he attended Lethbridge College for its Journalism Diploma program. Since then, Hills has been a major component of university athletics coverage in Edmonton for over 10 years. Spending long hours travelling to back and forth across the North Saskatchewan River covering all the postsecondary teams, Hills is Postmedia’s go-to reporter in Edmonton for everything amateur sports.
Hills is a story teller. Though his articles include features, game recaps (简报)and series previews, all of his work showcases university student-athletes like no one else in the City of Edmonton. Hills stands out and stands above many, with an extraordinary ability to capture the athletes’ true voice. By putting himself in their shoes, Hills empathizes (有同感) with the student-athletes by telling their story, bringing a truly human element to the piece.
“My grandma told me when I was young, no matter what you do in life, just do what makes you happy,” Hills recalls.“This type of job and this type of career, you’re not going to make millions in it. You have to do it because you love it and because you’re passionate about it.”
1. Why did Hills regard sports as an escape in his childhood?| A．To relieve his pain. |
| B．To kill boring time. |
| C．To recover from bad health. |
| D．To avoid pressure from his parents. |
| A．His love for journalism from childhood. |
| B．His great achievements in the university team. |
| C．His determination to become a well-known sports journalist. |
| D．His passion for sports and hopelessness of entering the university athletics. |
| A．Focusing on the comments of the game. |
| B．Telling the childhood stories of athletes. |
| C．Reflecting the uniqueness of college student athletes. |
| D．Bringing his own life experiences into them. |
| A．Generous. |
| B．Strong-willed. |
| C．Artistic. |
| D．Knowledgeable. |
More than 30 years after saving a drowning (溺水的) person in Qingyun Lake, Zhao Li has won the national role model award. Zhao was among 10 winners of the role model awards last November. Indeed, he is just one of the everyday heroes in China.
Zhao, a villager living near the lake in Shandong province, has saved 16 people from drowning, including a child who accidentally dropped into the water and a woman who tried to kill herself.
“I think one person’s ability is limited (有限的). A professional team can save more people’s lives,” he says. Because of this, he started a saving center with strong - swimming volunteers in August 2020..
Actually, it’s not easy to set up such a saving center. They bought speedboats and life vests with their own money. Recently, the center has more than 100 volunteers. In their latest effort, they rushed to Xinxiang city and helped more than 1, 000 people out of the flood in three days. When Zhao faced the flood, he was not afraid.
Li Lingzhi, a college student in Guangxi, tried to stop a man from stealing cables last August. He suffered a serious knife cut on his face while fearlessly fighting with the thief. The thief was finally caught by police, and fortunately Li recovered.
Besides, without thinking the risk of COVID - 19 infection, Wang Yong, a courier (快递员) in Wuhan cit, organized a team and offered free buses, as well as daily groceries (杂货) to medical workers from Jinyintan Hospital, a place to treat patients during the peak of the COVID - 19 in early 2020.
1. Did Zhao Li win the national role model award?2. How many volunteers are there in Zhao Li’s saving center?
3. Why can Zhao Li, Li Lingzhi and Wang Yong be known as everyday heroes?
4. Everyone can volunteer to help others. Think up some volunteer activities, and write them down. (About 30 words. )
8 . The scientist’s job is to figure out how the world works, to “torture (拷问)” Nature to reveal her secrets, as the 17th century philosopher Francis Bacon described it. But who are these people in the lab coats (or sports jackets, or T-shirts and jeans) and how do they work? It turns out that there is a good deal of mystery surrounding the mystery-solvers.
“One of the greatest mysteries is the question of what it is about human beings — brains, education, culture etc. that makes them capable of doing science at all,” said Colin Allen, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University.
Two vital ingredients seem to be necessary to make a scientist: the curiosity to seek out mysteries and the creativity to solve them. “Scientists exhibit a heightened level of curiosity,” reads a 2007 report on scientific creativity. “They go further and deeper into basic questions showing a passion for knowledge for its own sake.” Max Planck, one of the fathers of quantum physics, once said, the scientist “must have a vivid and intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction (推论), but by an artistically creative imagination.”
But others disagree with this universal scientific mind. They believe that scientists have special abilities that set them apart. Discovering these abilities may be hard, Allen thinks, as many scientists will be reluctant to reveal them and would prefer to preserve the mystery of creativity, fearing that if it became an object of study it would lose its magic.
But for Allen, this is all part of a bigger question of what lies behind anyone’s behavior. “We are only just beginning to understand how the characteristics of organisms, including ourselves, aren’t the fixed products of either genes or of environment/culture, but each of us is the product of a continual interactive process in which we help build the environments that in turn shape us,” he said.
“As long as our best technology for seeing inside the brain requires subjects to lie nearly motionless while surrounded by a giant magnet, we’re only going to make limited pro gress on these questions,” Allen said.
1. Why does the author mention Max Planck in paragraph 3?| A．To introduce a famous scientist. | B．To stress the role of creativity in science. |
| C．To compare different views on science. | D．To illustrate what is curiosity inscience. |
| A．Human behavior is changeable and unpredictable. |
| B．We are passively influenced by our genes and culture. |
| C．Our interaction with the environment makes us who we are. |
| D．Current technology has revealed a lot about human behavior. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Indifferent. | C．Approving. | D．Pessimistic. |
| A．Who Are The Mystery-solvers | B．Scientists Are Not Born But Made |
| C．Great Mystery: What Makes A Scientist | D．Solving Mysteries: Inside A Scientist's Mind |
On the morning of Sept. 28th, 2022, grand memorial ceremonies were held around China to speak well of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, politician and
Built to commemorate (纪念) and offer sacrifices to Confucius in 478 BC, the Temple of Confucius
Together
On February 15, 1910, Irena Krzyzanowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Irena studied Polish literature at Warsaw University, and eventually joined the Polish Socialist Party.
Then World War II broke out. It was 1940 and Germany had taken over. The Germans had begun shifting Warsaw’s population of 380,000 Jews to a separate Ghetto (聚居区). Irena worked in the Warsaw health department and was allowed to enter the Ghetto.
Irena was a member of Zegota (援助犹太人委员会), a secret organization set up by the Polish government. The goal of Zegota was to rescue Polish Jews. Irena’s job was to rescue as many children as she could.
Regardless of the danger it posed, Irena began aiding Jews in earnest (真挚地) in the early 1940s. She and her sympathetic co-workers created more than 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families, and that was just the beginning of the efforts.
Irena and her team began smuggling children out during these visits. They used various methods, such as hiding them in ambulances, leading them through sewer pipes or underground passages, even stuffing them into suitcases or boxes that they’d then take through the courtyard to the non-Jewish area.
Irena was helped by a network of over 30 volunteers, most of whom were women. Their hope was to get the children back to their families once the war was won. Irena and her helpers noted the names of the children on cigarette papers and sealed them in glass bottles. Then they buried the bottles in a friend’s garden for safekeeping. When the war was done, the bottles were dug up and the lists handed to Jewish representatives. Sadly, reuniting the children with their parents proved mostly impossible, as almost all had been killed in concentration camps.
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The Polish Government honored Irena many awards.
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She insisted that she did nothing special.
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