1 . “When I was young, I had so much energy and I loved building stuff. If I had an idea, I had to build it right away using whatever I could find around me.” says Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo. When Dambo was just seven years old, he bought some materials from the local market to construct a game room in his parents’ basement. As a teenager, he built a “crazy” castle in his backyard.

Decades later, 42-year-old Dambo is proudly surveying his latest creation: a troll (巨人) called Little Lui. Towering at five meters tall, Little Lui is one of the six trolls hidden in secret corners of the Peel Region of Western Australia as part of Thomas Dambo Giants of Mandurah, an Australian-first exhibition, which will be on show for at least a year. Dambo has made many impressive trolls, which have found homes in the United States, Belgium, China, Denmark, South Korea and so on.

“For me, trolls represent the voice of nature,” Dambo says. This deep respect for the natural world is a central message of Dambo’s practice. Dambo’s troll are made almost entirely from locally sourced recycled wood: their faces from secondhand furniture and their hair from branches and leaves. Taking about 750 hours to complete, each troll is constructed out in nature.

“We are slowly turning the world into a landfill. I hope that by visiting the trolls, people will think of rubbish as a resource. I think it’s really important that the next generation is connected to nature.” Dambo says. “That’s why I tried to design the trolls to appeal to younger people. I want people to be inspired to play and experiment, and to realize they don’t need a lot to create something big and beautiful. Go out, go around the corner and take advantage of whatever is there — you will find a lot of adventure in your own backyard.”

1. Which of the following can best describe young Dambo?

A．Creative.

B．Generous.

C．Independent.

D．Courageous.

2. What do you know about Little Lui?

A．It is kept underground.	B．It is Dambo’s first creation.
C．It will be shown to the public.	D．It will be sent to foreign countries.

3. Which aspect of trolls does paragraph 3 highlight?

A．Their basic theme.	B．Their artistic value.
C．Their expensive materials.	D．Their building procedures.

4. What does Dambo intend to do with his trolls?

A．Inspire more people to take adventures.

B．Encourage the young to approach nature.

C．Help people spend less time playing games.

D．Call on the young to save natural resources.

3 . Artist Susan Shepherd is best known for her flower paintings, and the large garden that surrounds her house is the source of many of her subjects. It is full of her favourite flowers, most especially vancties of tulips and poppies. Some of the plants are unruly and seed themselves all over the garden. There is a harmony of colour, shape and structure in the two long flower borders that line the paved path which crosses the garden from east to west. Much of this is due to the previous owners who were keen gardeners, and who left plants that appealed to Susan. She also inherited the gardener, Danny. “In fact, it was really his garden,” she says. “We got on very well. At first he would say, “Oh, it’s not worth it” to some of the things I wanted to put in, but when I said I wanted to paint them, he recognized what I had in mind.”

Susan prefers to focus on detailed studies of individual plants rather than on the garden as a whole, though she will occasionally paint a group of plants where they are. More usually, she picks them and then takes them up to her studio. “I don’t set the whole thing up at once,” she says. “I take one flower up at once,” she says. “I take one flower out and paint it, which might take a few days, and then I bring in another one and build up the painting that way. Sometimes it takes a couple of years to finish.”

Her busiest time of year is spring and early summer, when the tulips are out, followed by the poppies. “They all come out together, and you’re so busy,” she says. But the gradual decaying process is also part of the fascination for her. With tulips, for example, “you bring them in and put them in water, then leave them for perhaps a day and they each form themselves into different shapes. They open out and are fantastic. When you first put them in a vase, you think they are boring, but they change all the time with twists and turns.”

1. In the first paragraph, the author describes Susan’s garden as ________.

A．being only partly finished

B．having a path lined with flowers

C．having caused problems for the previous owners

D．needing a lot of work to keep it looking attractive

2. What does Susan say about Danny?

A．He felt she was interfering in his work.

B．He immediately understood her feelings.

C．He was recommended by the previous owners.

D．He was slow to see the point of some of her ideas.

3. What is Susan’s approach to painting?

A．She creates her paintings in several stages.

B．She spends all day painting an individual flower.

C．She likes to do research on a plant before she paints it.

D．She will wait until a flower is ready to be picked before painting it.

4. Susan thinks that tulips ________.

A．look best some time after they have been cut.

B．should be kept in the house for as long as possible.

C．are not easy to paint because they change so quickly.

D．are more colourful and better shaped than other flowers.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse     1     (award) the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature in the previous month for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

The Swedish Academy credits Fosse     2     “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world”, although the 64-year-old originally made his name as a novelist,     3     (begin) with The Red and the Black in 1983. He has since written many works of prose and poetry.

Growing up in a small coastal village, Fosse was immersed in the beauty of nature and the vastness of the sea. He draws     4     (inspire) from his rural living environment and personal struggles, which have deeply influenced his distinctive writing style. Fosse’s writing discussed themes of loneliness, longing, and the search for meaning in life.     5     (addition), his battles with depression have enabled     6     (he) to explore the depths of human emotions and existential despair.

“He touches you so deeply when you read his works,” said Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Noble Prize Committee. “    7     is special about him is the closeness in his writing. It touches your     8     (deep) feelings — anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death,     9     are things that every human being actually face s from the very beginning. In that sense I think he reaches very far and there is     10     universal impact of everything that he writes — it has appeal to this basic humanity.”

5 . Dorothy Casterline was an American researcher, writer and poet. It took decades for her contributions to deaf culture to be ______. In 1965, the deaf linguist worked with two others to ______ the first dictionary of American Sign Language. Their Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles ______ ASL as a distinct language with its own syntax (句法), and organized signs by hand movement rather than ______ order. The book was met with ______ among linguists, who saw ASL as ______ a gestural branch of English, and it wasn’t until the 1980s that Casterline was ______ with helping create deaf cultural identity. “We were ______ think of ASL as a picture language,” she said. ”Seeing these ________ symbols for the first time can be discouraging.“

Born in Honolulu to Japanese-American parents, Casterline lost her hearing in her teens ______ illness. She studied English at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf, and graduated with honors in 1958. She then joined the school’s English faculty the first person of color on ______ and became a researcher at the linguistics lab, transcribing thousands of hours of interviews to compile the ASL dictionary. The work became a ______, and she toiled “late into the night and on weekends, sometimes with her newborn son in one arm,” said The New York Times.

After the book was done, Casterline left academia to raise her children. Last year, Gallaudet awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of work that ______ “a renaissance in the history of the deaf community,” said Gallaudet.edu. She remained ______ of the book, saying she wrote it “to show that deaf people can be studied as linguistic and cultural communities, and not only as ______.”

1.

A．restored

B．remembered

C．received

D．recognized

2.

A．translate

B．purchase

C．develop

D．consult

3.

A．presented

B．labelled

C．transformed

D．defined

4.

A．direct

B．spatial

C．random

D．alphabetical

5.

A．approval

B．skepticism

C．laughter

D．success

6.

A．absolutely

B．completely

C．merely

D．barely

7.

A．credited

B．burdened

C．rewarded

D．charged

8.

A．led to

B．conditioned to

C．bound to

D．appointed to

9.

A．interesting

B．unique

C．impressive

D．strange

10.

A．in

B．with

C．from

D．of

11.

A．duty

B．staff

C．board

D．business

12.

A．passion

B．torture

C．dream

D．routine

13.

A．passed

B．shot

C．halted

D．sparked

14.

A．sure

B．optimistic

C．conscious

D．proud

15.

A．examples

B．victims

C．wastes

D．members

8 . 假如你是红星中学校报记者李华，请你为中学生英语报社写一篇新闻报道，内容包括：

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2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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9 . When she was a child, Yue-Sai Kan was told by her father that she should always aim to be the first to walk on the moon because no one remembers the second.

What her father said has been a _______ inspiration (鼓舞) over the years for her. Her new book Be a Pioneer was _______ after three years in the making. It was also inspired _______ by her father’s words.

“Actually many people have asked me to write a(n) _______ . I have been asked numerous times already _______ I always felt that it was not the right time for me to sit down and give thanks for my life. ” says Kan. However, her publisher thought _______ .

“All the things I have done can be a good _______ to young people, which is the main reason why I wrote the book,” says Kan, adding that the year 2022 gave her the unexpected _______ to do some thinking about her life.

When writing an autobiography, the biggest _______ are not only how to present one’s life, but also remembering it in the first place. To help with reconstructing her story, Kan asked her friends to write down their ________ of her from earlier times. So besides ________ Kan’s own words, the new book is also filled with those of her friends, which gave Kan new ________ into herself.

“My housekeeper ________ me that before the launch of one of my events, she found that I had fainted in the bathroom. I was so ________ that I was getting sick. They know more about me than myself,” Kan says. “I am by nature very ________ . I believe that what I do will benefit the world,” says Kan.

Throughout her life, Kan has never stopped doing what she loves.

1.

A．boosting

B．wrestling

C．driving

D．demanding

2.

A．relieved

B．released

C．restricted

D．revealed

3.

A．mildly

B．secretly

C．logically

D．partly

4.

A．novel

B．autobiography

C．story

D．essay

5.

A．but

B．meanwhile

C．while

D．so

6.

A．opposite

B．somehow

C．otherwise

D．though

7.

A．example

B．lesson

C．advice

D．lifestyle

8.

A．turn

B．ability

C．potential

D．opportunity

9.

A．benefits

B．risks

C．challenges

D．values

10.

A．memories

B．stories

C．books

D．lists

11.

A．limiting

B．featuring

C．remarking

D．analysing

12.

A．knowledge

B．understanding

C．insight

D．access

13.

A．convinced

B．warned

C．suspected

D．reminded

14.

A．bored

B．tired

C．disappointed

D．excited

15.

A．adorable

B．ambitious

C．optimistic

D．patient