Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
One of the most influential figures of the Post-Impressionism movement in France, Vincent Van Gogh is also seen as a significant pioneer of 20th century Expressionism. Although he didn’t start painting until the final 10 years of his life and failed to sell a single work during his lifetime, his paintings and drawings are now some of the world’s best known works of modern art. Van Gogh is now one of the greatest modern artists.
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
One of the most famous Post-Impressionist painters of the 1880s in France, the short-lived French artist Georges Seurat is noted for his invention of the colourist technique known as Pointillism, a form of Divisionism. In so doing, he pioneered the new style of Neo-Impressionism. Thanks to Seurat and his contemporary Paul Signac, it had a major influence on Italian Divisionism and on several other styles of Post-Impressionist painting. One of the great modern artists, Seurat died in his prime (鼎盛时期) at the age of 31.
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
The painter and printmaker Jules Cheret was a key figure in French painting during the late 19th century, and the first artist to make his reputation in the medium of poster art. Cheret was a key figure in the history of poster art, producing more than 1, 000 posters, beginning with his 1867 advertisement for Sarah Bernardt.
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
A French painter and founder of the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet liked to paint outside and often painted the same scene at different times of the year to capture (捕捉) natural changes in colour and light. He also had a famous garden at his house in Giverny, in which he produced some of his most famous paintings of water-lily ponds.
1. What is special about Vincent Van Gogh?| A．He refused to sell his works. | B．He passed away very young. |
| C．He gained fame after death. | D．He influenced other artists. |
| A．Vincent V an Gogh. | B．Georges Seurat. |
| C．Jules Cheret. | D．Claude Monet. |
| A．They are received as realists. | B．They are regarded as pioneers. |
| C．They focused on the same theme. | D．They used the same painting techniques. |
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【推荐1】We are what we eat. That is an old expression, but one worth knowing. A recent look at diets around the world shows that people who eat healthy food—and not too much of it—live longer. But which areas of the world have the best diets？Researchers found that foods in some of the healthiest diets—Mediterranean, New Nordic, Japanese and French—may be very different, but they are all heavy on local, seasonal and limit processed foods, which are high in vegetables and seafood and low in red meat.
Mediterranean diet contains lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and olive oil. The diet has proper amounts of fish and poultry (禽肉). Red meat and foods high in sugar and salt are not big parts of this diet.
New Nordic diet has whole grains like oats and rye, vegetables such as carrots, broccoli and eggs, seafood, fruits, oil, lowfat milk and cheese. Very sugary desserts are not common in this diet.
Japanese people are some of the longestliving people on the planet, with women up to 87 years old and men up to 80. The Japanese diet is the reason for such lengths of life. The diet has many foods that are low in calories and high in nutrients. Japanese people eat a lot of seaweed, tofu, rice, vegetables and fish. The tradition there is to stop eating when your stomach feels 80 percent full.
However, French people eat fatty foods but do not get fat. And they live a long time. This phenomenon is called the "French Paradox". The reason why the French eat fatty foods without getting fat may be simple. They eat less. Serving sizes in French restaurants and in products sold in stores are smaller than those in most countries. And generally speaking, most French people do not snack. This means they do not eat food between meals.
1. What do we know about the healthiest diets around the world?| A．They contain abundant calories. | B．They tend to be expensive. |
| C．They share certain similarities. | D．They reflect popular tastes. |
| A．Going low in calories. | B．Eating to the fullest. |
| C．Having much seafood. | D．Picking many foods. |
| A．By building connections. | B．By exploring reasons. |
| C．By listing out examples. | D．By analyzing figures. |
| A．What is the healthiest diet on earth? | B．How does the old expression serve? |
| C．Why is a healthy diet so important? | D．Where can we plant ourselves well? |
【推荐2】With video meetings, taking selfies (自拍) and posting on social media, it’s easier to see one’s own image online. And for some people, this can lead to feelings of appearance dissatisfaction. In the past few years, screen time has increased for both adults and children. What’s worse, recent research suggests that the video and photo images we see of ourselves are distorted (扭曲的).
One study found that those who spent more time comparing their appearance during a video call experienced lower appearance satisfaction. This study also found that people who used more photo-editing features in video chat were more likely to compare themselves with others and spend more time looking at themselves on video calls.
A 2023 study found that discomfort with one’s appearance during video meetings led to an increased attention to appearance, which in turn led to poor work performance. Researchers also suggest that appearance dissatisfaction is connected with boredom in online meetings. The research reports that this could be due to negative attention to oneself and worry about being looked at or being negatively treated based on appearance.
If you find yourself criticizing (批评) your appearance every time in a video call, it may be time to be intentional about paying more attention to what other people are saying instead of looking at your own face.
When it comes to helping others who have difficulty with appearance dissatisfaction, it is important to care more about the person’s qualities beyond appearance. When viewing yourself or your partners on video and social media, try viewing the person as a whole and not as parts of a body.
Reducing screen time can make a difference as well. Research shows that reducing social media use by 50% can improve appearance satisfaction in both teens and adults. When used in a right way, video chatting and social media are tools to connect us with others, which finally is a key piece in satisfaction and well-being.
1. Who is more likely to suffer from appearance dissatisfaction?| A．Children who like taking selfies. |
| B．Adults who often attend video meetings. |
| C．Teenagers who enjoy posting on social media. |
| D．People who always compare appearance in video chatting. |
| A．Less focus on one’s own image. |
| B．Harmful effects on work performance. |
| C．Anger about being looked at by others. |
| D．Boredom of looking at one’s own face. |
| A．By taking their words seriously. | B．By caring much about their faces. |
| C．By viewing them as parts of a body. | D．By placing importance on their qualities. |
| A．Unconcerned. | B．Positive. | C．Balanced. | D．Worried |
【推荐3】Why the East Coast has had such a weak winter
Overall, winter across the East Coast this year has been pretty weak. “I was in shorts and a T-shirt,” said Jeff Weber, a research meteorologist (气象学家) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Meteorologists descended upon Boston in mid-January for the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January is Boston's coldest month, but during the weather conference, meteorologists experienced 75 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures.
A major reason is that the polar vortex (极地涡旋) — which is a circulating stream of air that forms over the Arctic during winter — has stayed rigid and in place, keeping its cold air mostly locked up north. Consequently, little of this exceptionally chilly air has got into the U.S. this winter.
Arctic blasts (北极寒流), like those in January 2019, happen when the polar vortex becomes unstable, allowing frigid air to spill south. “But this winter, instead of a weak polar vortex, we’ve had strong polar vortex conditions,” said Andrea Lang, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Albany who researches changes in seasonal winter weather.
The polar vortex has stayed strong because other weather systems, sometimes originating from the Pacific. Ocean, haven’t come along and knocked the spinning vortex out of place.
A frequent culprit (问题的起因) in disturbing the polar vortex is a powerful stream of air traveling some 30,000 to 35,000 miles up in the atmosphere (where jets fly) which we commonly call the jet stream. The jet stream shoots from west to east around Earth at speeds of 120 to 250 miles per hour, but can become dramatically wavier when it’s disturbed by strong storm activity or encounters masses of hot or cold air.
But this winter season, the meandering (蜿蜒前进的) jet stream has not knocked the polar vortex off its pole, explained Lang. Instead, the jet stream has bent dramatically south, right through the heart of the central U. S.
Atmospheric scientists are deeply interested in why a perturbed polar vortex has become more frequent. There’s evidence that the incessantly warming Arctic — the fastest-warming place on Earth — has led to a weaker and less stable polar vortex, which means more outbreaks of freezing Arctic air. Just not this winter — so far, anyway.
1. What does Jeff Weber mean by saying what he wore?| A．To introduce his dressing style. | B．To express his feeling then. |
| C．To prove the abnormal weather. | D．To show his love of winter. |
| A．It was as warm as that of this year. |
| B．It was very cold owing to the arctic blast. |
| C．The polar vortex stayed rigid and in place. |
| D．The polar vortex was weak and unstable. |
| A．Fixed. | B．Frozen. | C．Heated. | D．Disturbed. |
| A．By bending north and knocking it off. |
| B．By moving from east to west around Earth. |
| C．By waving and meandering powerfully. |
| D．By turning to the south dramatically. |
【推荐1】The summer before my dad died, we moved house. Up until that point, our family had our own space to spread out. Money was tight, so there was no television set, but we owned a turntable on which my dad’s records played constantly. Mostly, it played Bob Dylan. Tracks from The Basement Tapes and Desire became an important part of our new life. My brother and I, aged 8 and 10, climbed trees，built hideaways and learned the words of Clothes Line Saga. We would chant over and over, lost in our own joy.
It was January when my dad left us forever because of the cancer. He was 36 going on 37 then, the same age as Dylan. Afterwards, our laughter disappeared, but we kept on playing the records, which became our only ritual of remembrance. The two men became so intertwined in my head, and I struggled to tell them apart.
Dylan was my dad’s gift to me. What child wouldn’t be fascinated by songs full of pirates and seasick sailors? How did it feel to have No Direction Home? Farewell^ Angelina became my party piece. I would sing this at church cheese and wines to the assembled audience. A lot of donations were made.
Growing up, I remained a fan of the music, but I wasn’t obsessed with Dylan until one day in early 1995, my brother bought us both tickets to see him play at Brixton Academy. London felt like a long way to go. But finally seeing Dylan step out onto the stage brought a sudden rush of excitement.
I have seen Dylan a couple of times since. My brother is not around so much these days. But he was up for a visit recently. We passed a happy evening laughing and drinking, while his son, aged nine, performed his party piece Subterranean Homesick Blues for us. He sang it word-perfect. And so it goes on: Dylan’s music as a gift, passed down the generations.
1. What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?| A．To praise his late father. |
| B．To tell about his family history. |
| C．To express his longing for family reunion. |
| D．To show his love for Bob Dylan. |
| A．Passion. | B．Ceremony. | C．Memory. | D．Belief. |
| A．his nephew was ever invited to play in Dylan’s concert |
| B．his brother has never seen a live performance of Dylan |
| C．Dylan’s music has influenced three generations of his family |
| D．Subterranean Homesick Blues is always his favorite song |
【推荐2】Stanley Martin Lieber was born in Manhattan, NY on December 28, 1922.Upon graduating from De Witt Clinton High School, the 16-year-old boy was hired at what was then called Timely Comics. The company was best known for inexpensive fiction, or magazines. In 1941, when given his first chance to author a story—a short text for Captain America, he signed his name as “Stan Lee”. However, the pseudonym stuck, and soon after, became his legal name.
Promoted to the editor of the comic book division at the age of 19, Lee spent the next decade writing a variety of styles. In the late 1950s, knowing his common writing career, Lee was considering leaving when he was asked to create a superhero character to compete with DC Comics’ successful Justice League.
Lee partnered Jack Kirby to launch the Fantastic Four. The comic book was an instant hit, leading to the development of other superhero characters such as Iron Man, and Spider-man. Unlike previous superheroes who were described as perfect, Lee’s creations were provided with human faults, thus making them more related to fans.
In 1972, Lee, by then the publisher of marvel, gave up editorial control to spend time promoting the company. While television shows featuring Marvel characters like Spider-Man and the Hulk did well, achieving success on the big screen proved difficult. It was not until 2000 with the release of The X-man, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, lan Mekellen, and Halle Berry, that Marvels superheroes became a hit on the big screen. This was also the first time Lee had began the much- -loved tradition of making cameo (客串演出) appearances in the movies. In 2009, the Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel and lifted up the superhero world further with summer blockbusters like The Avengers.
Though Lee is no longer with us, his larger-than-life personality, fun-loving wit, and charm will be remembered for generations to come.
1. Which word can replace the underlined word “pseudonym” in Paragraph 1?| A．Pen name. | B．Fiction. |
| C．Text. | D．Company. |
| A．All the superheroes Lee created were perfect. |
| B．Lee was asked to cooperate with Justice league. |
| C．Marvel was bought by Walt Disney Company in 2009. |
| D．The comic book Fantastic Four was a complete failure. |
| A．The success of Stanley Martin s comic books. |
| B．Stanley Martins first appearance in the movies. |
| C．Stanley Martins decision to create his own company. |
| D．Stanley Martin s devotion to moving his company to a higher rank. |
| A．a biography. | B．A diary. |
| C．A guide book. | D．A book review. |
【推荐3】The expressive quality of both the forms and gestures in the basically monochromatic composition of Guernica found its way into Picasso’s other work, especially in the intensely coloured versions of Weeping Woman (1937) as well as in related prints and drawings, inportraits of Dora Maar and Nusch Eluard (wife of Picasso’s friend, the French poet Paul Eluard), and in still lifes (Still Life with Red Bull’s Head, 1938). Those works led to the claustrophobic interiors and skull-like drawings (sketchbook number 110, 1940) of the war years, which Picasso spent in France with Maar as well as with Jaime Sabartes, a friend of his student days in Barcelona. Thereafter Sabartés shared Picasso’s life as secretary, biographer, and companion and more often than not as the butt of endless jokes (Portrait of Jaime Sabartes, 1939; Retour de Bruxelles, sketchbook number 137, 1956).
After the liberation of Paris, Picasso resumed exhibiting his work, notably at the Salon d’Automne of 1944 (“Salon de la Libération”), where his canvases of the preceding five years were received as a shock. At the same time, Picasso opened up his studio to both newand old writer and artist friends, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Reverdy, Eluard, the photographer Brassai, the English artist Roland Penrose, and the American photographer Lee Miller, as well as many American GIs.
Already in 1943 a young painter, Francoise Gilot, had presented herself at the studio, and within months she became Picasso’s mistress. In 1946 Picasso moved to the Mediterranean with Gilot (with whom he was to have two children, Claude in 1947 and Paloma in 1949). First they stayed near Antibes, where Picasso spent four months painting at the Château Grimaldi (Joie de Vivre, 1946). The paintings of that time and the ceramics he decorated at the studio in nearby Vallauris, beginning in 1947, vividly express Picasso’s sense of identification with the classical tradition and with his Mediterranean origins. They also celebrate his new found happiness with Gilot, who in works of that period was often nymph to Picasso’s fauns and centaurs.
1. What can we learn about Picasso’s works during the World War II?| A．There were intensive colours in the works at that time. |
| B．Most of the works at that time were portraits. |
| C．Skull-like paintings were the features of the works at that time. |
| D．Sabartes contributed to Picasso’s works at that time in terms of inspiration. |
| A．Continue. | B．Abandon. | C．Restate. | D．Reserve. |
| A．Picasso and Gilot got married in 1946. | B．Gilot was as famous as Picasso at that time. |
| C．Picasso portrayed Gilot in his paintings. | D．Picasso and Gilot had three children. |
