1 . For those who are deaf or have hearing loss, making and enjoying music can be a challenge. However, that hasn’t stopped Dame Evelyn Glennie from achieving success.

Scottish-born Dame Evelyn Glennie is one of the world’s most recognized percussionists (打击乐器乐手). However, she started going deaf at the age of eight due to a nerve disease. At 12, she totally lost her hearing.

At first, Glennie was desperate. But her percussion teacher at school taught her to feel particular notes. For example, she had to place her hands on a wall, and he would play two notes on two timpani. He would then ask her which was the higher note and where she felt the vibration. Through trials and errors, she managed to distinguish the pitch of notes by associating where on her body she feels the sound. Thanks to her perfect pitch and the fact that she performs barefoot, Evelyn “hears” the sound. Together with her lip-reading skills, and amazing musicianship, she has conquered any troubles and inconvenience caused by her impairment.

Till now, Glennie has performed with almost all the major orchestras (管弦乐队) globally. Besides classical music, she is famous for partnerships with pop and rock artists like Sting and Bjork. Glennie’s works has earned her over 100 music awards, including two Grammys. She even led 1,000 drummers in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

At the age of 58 this year, Glennie’s mission now is to “teach the world to listen” to improve communication by encouraging everyone to discover a new way of listening. “It’s important to grab on to any opportunity that comes your way, but you also need to create your own opportunities,” says Evelyn. “It’s a personal time to reflect on the impact you might have on other people as well. I don’t know if age plays a part in it, because I feel as though I haven’t really achieved very much and there’s still so much to do!”

1. How could Glennie identify different notes as a deaf person?

A．By reading her teacher’s lips.	B．By putting her hands on a wall.
C．By applying her amazing musicianship.	D．By feeling the vibration through her body.

2. What does the underlined word “impairment” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Sorrow.

B．Mismatch.

C．Abnormality.

D．Fear.

3. Which of the following best describes Glennie’s character?

A．faithful and tolerant	B．cheerful and practical
C．determined and kind	D．considerate and dutiful

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．A Dream Pursued by Evelyn Glennie	B．A Deaf Musician Heard by the World
C．Evelyn Glennie: Teach the World to Listen	D．Talented Percussionist: Say “No” to Age

2 . Chopin, one of the most influential and popular pianists in the field of music, was born in Poland. He lived in a happy family. His father was a French teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum which Chopin later attended. His mother liked singing Polish folk songs very much. When Chopin was still a baby, his mother often sang songs to make him sleep. The charm of music was firmly rooted in the young Chopin’s heart and accompanied him until the end of his life.

His early training started at home, including getting piano lessons from his mother. When he was 4, his parents bought a piano at home. His mother often played the piano with him. Chopin had an unspeakable feeling for the piano. He often climbed onto the chair and beat the keys with his tender hands. “This is our son playing the piano. And it is a Polish folk song!” Chopin’s mother was surprised, and his father was very proud.

By the age of seven, Chopin had created original works, which showed his prodigious musical ability. Then his parents sent him to learn piano from Wojciech Zywny. When Chopin was sixteen, he attended the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, directed by composer Josephy Elsner. Like other young musicians during the Classical and Romantic Periods, Chopin was sent to Vienna, the center of music for that day. While he was in Vienna, Poland and Russia faced off in the beginnings of war. He returned to Warsaw to get his things for a more permanent move.

The war in Poland inspired Chopin to write many sad works expressing his grief for his motherland. Among these was the famous “Revolutionary Etude”. As the war continued in Warsaw and then reached Paris, Chopin retired to Scotland with friends. Although he was far beyond the reach of the revolution, he fell into deep depression. Besides, his health was in bad condition. Finally, he died at the age of 39, and was buried in Paris.

1. Who was Chopin’s first music teacher?

A．Wojciech Zywny.

B．His mother.

C．Josephy Elsner.

D．His father.

2. Which sentence is true about Chopin’s childhood?

A．Chopin’s parents paid much attention to his education.

B．Chopin was forced to practice the piano by his mother.

C．His mother was his French teacher.

D．He lacked love in his childhood.

3. Why did Chopin create so many sad works?

A．Because his health was poor.	B．Because he had special ability in music.
C．Because he loved his homeland, Poland so much.	D．He was inspired by his friends.

4. What can we learned from the passage?

A．After first being sent to Vienna, Chopin never returned to Poland.

B．The center of music was in Paris for that day.

C．Chopin left Poland because he hated it.

D．He died early because of his poor health and his deep feeling of depression.

3 . Here is a brief introduction to the “three masters of art” of the Renaissance.

Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519)

He was the most famous artist, sculptor and inventor of the Italian Renaissance. He was also known as “the most perfect representative of the Renaissance”. He was born in the town of Vinci, on the outskirts of Florence, and died in France. The fresco The Last Supper, the altarpiece Our Lady of the Rock and the wall painting Mona Lisa are the three masterpieces of his life.

Raphael(1483-1520)

He was an Italian painter and sculptor. His series of wall paintings of the Virgin reflected a humanism with maternal warmth, which were different from the medieval painters. Our Lady of Frio, Our Lady in the Chair and Our Lady of Alba are all his perfect works. After 1509, he was invited by Pope Julier II to paint wall paintings in the Vatican Palace. He died in Rome on April 6, 1520.

Michelangelo(1475-1564)

He was a great painter, sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance and a representative of the highest peak of Renaissance sculpture. From 1501 to 1504, he completed the world-famous David. From 1508, he spent more than four years completing the famous wall painting in the Sistine Chapel. He devoted his whole life to great art until his death in his studio on February 18, 1564.

1. From this passage. what is the name of the wall painting created by Leonardo da Vinci?

A．The Last Supper.	B．Our Lady of the Rock.
C．Mona Lisa.	D．The Battle of Angeli.

2. How did Raphael’s works differ from that of medieval painters?

A．His works reflected a humanism with maternal warmth.

B．His works had extremely strong religious overtones.

C．His works emphasized the aesthetic function of painting.

D．His works emphasized the performance of subjective spirit.

3. Which one is not what these painters have in common?

A．They all painted wall paintings.	B．They were Italian.
C．They were born in early 15th century.	D．They were sculptors.

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。

While athletes were racing to realize their dreams during the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, Ding Jiao kept     1     close watch on them, hoping to capture their most inspiring and     2     (happy) moments through her comics.

Ding, a physically challenged artist created 96 comics for the Chinese athletes in the Tokyo Summer Paralympics last year. These comics were popular, with     3     (view) surpassing 100 million on social media.

The 31-year-old Ding says: “I’m physically challenged, so I know how hard it is for physically challenged people     4     (fight) for their dreams.”

Ding recalls when she watched Chinese athletes coming into sight at the opening ceremony, tears     5     (course) down her face.

She spent around five hours drawing a comic piece, describing the Chinese athletes at the opening ceremony. The work     6     (post) by Zhou Jiamin, the flag bearer of Chinese team, to her Sina Weibo account, which encouraged Ding to continue creating more comics for Chinese athletes.

Every time she drew an athlete, she watched the athlete’s race     7     (repeat）.

Ding finished 96 comics within one month. “I worked overtime, but it is worthy     8     the efforts, especially when I read the messages left by the athletes and their relatives,” she says.

Officially     9     (invite) by the IPC, Ding was busy creating comics for athletes at the Beijing Winter Paralympics. “I’d like to create a comic, through     10    viewers can feel the athlete’s positive attitude that encourages people to go on and enjoy life,” she says.

5 . 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。

Vincent Van Gogh, for     1     colour was the main symbol of expression, was born in 1853. He     2     (bring) up in a cultured family. Van Gogh was highly     3     (emotion) and wasn’t self-confident. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become     4     artist, Van Gogh had two unhappy love stories and worked     5     (successful) in Belgium. However, he remained there to study art, and decided to give happiness by     6     (create) beauty. Of the works of his early Dutch period, the most famous is The Potato Eaters.

In 1886, he went to Paris     7     (study) with Cormon, later met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began     8     (light) his very dark palette (调色板). His nervousness made him a difficult person to get along     9     and night-long discussions and painting all day also affected his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help set up a school of art.

Van Gogh died in 1890. During his life he had sold one painting. Van Gogh’s finest works were produced in     10     (little) than three years.

6 . Four People Pushing Anamorphic (变形) Art to New Limits

Adry del Rocio

Mexican street artist Adry del Rocio creates 3D murals (壁画). In a piece for Den Helder City in the Netherlands, a playful seal intertwines (缠绕) between impossible column structures that reminds people of the mind-bending imaginings of the classic modernist artist MC Escher. In 2019, she created the award-winning “Swimming in red” for the International Street Art Festival in Brande, Denmark. The killing of whales in the Faroe Islands is marked by her work, where these beautiful mammals jump and play out of a sea of crimson, their tails changing into flowers.

Jonty Hurwitz

Using a variety of materials, the London artist/scientist performs a number of computer calculations, enabling him to warp (扭曲), say, an endangered frog or horse or even, basketball players into unrecognizable objects.

James Nizam

James Nizam works with light to transform a space. In 2016’s “Frieze”, a single beam of sunlight enters a common room through a carefully made hole. The resulting flood of light into the space creates an almost dreamlike feel, with the shining beams creating captivating lines and divisions in what cannot now be described as an empty room. Nizam is also known for transforming rooms by removing walls and floorboards to create anamorphic effects like in “Orthodrome”.

John Pugh

In a career extending over 30 years, world-famous American artist John Pugh has been creating show-stopping trompe L’oeil murals ( French for “deceiving the eye”) on a grand scale, whether it be giant snakes crashing through solid walls or revealing hidden temples and buildings by “peeling away” completely flat surfaces.

1. Who created the work “Frieze”?

A．Adry del Rocio.

B．Jonty Hurwitz.

C．James Nizam.

D．John Pugh.

2. What’s the nationality of John Pugh?

A．He is French.

B．He is American.

C．He is Mexican.

D．He is British.

3. What do the four artists have in common?

A．Their works won many awards.	B．They are fond of creating 3D murals.
C．Their works have reached a new height.	D．They are famous for transforming rooms.

7 . 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。

John is a Mazahua textile artist from the community of San Felipe Santiago, Villa de Allende, Mexico. Ten-year-old John was     1     (great) attracted by the unique forms and beautiful colors of the Mazahua textiles, and asked his mother to teach him embroidery (刺绣). But he     2     (tell) that a man shouldn’t learn it and that a man must spend his time on other things. However,     3     his mother said didn’t affect John’s big interest     4     embroidery.

After that talk with his mother, John set about     5     (make) the effort to learn the artform and hoped to change     6     idea that men couldn’t learn embroidery. He wished to share their cultural heritage through their textiles, so he attended events like meetings related to their     7     (tradition) textiles. To date, he     8     (win) many national prizes presented to people who promote art.

John’s success has changed community opinions and encouraged young people, including men,     9     (preserve) their unique embroidery art. Women from these communities have begun to teach their son to embroider. Clearly, John made a big     10     (contribute) to the protection of their cultural heritage.

8 . If you have ever seen the art of Jonathan Green, it is not likely that you will soon forget it. His paintings are bold and colorful, lively and cheerful. Green depicts a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. It is a way of life that he remembers with fondness from his childhood in the South Carolina Sea Islands.

Jonathan Green was born in 1955 in Gardens Corner, South Carolina, a region of the state known as the Low Country. The second of seven children, Green was raised by his maternal grandmother, Eloise Stewart Johnson. As he grew up, he was immersed in Gullah culture-a culture that placed great value on tradition, family, and community. Although Green had to travel to other parts of the world before he could fully appreciate his rich heritage, the basic elements of his culture eventually found their way into his unique form of artistic expression.

After Green graduated from high school, he joined the military. It seemed like a good opportunity for him to see the world and to receive an education. When he completed his military service, Green attended the Art Institute of Chicago. While he was in school, he worked part-time as a security guard at an art museum. This allowed him to study the work of the masters. He imitated their work at first, learning what made them so well respected. Then, Green found his own style and direction and began painting South Carolina’s Gullah Islands, the world he knew best.

Jonathan Green’s artwork is filled with everyday images of Gullah life as he remembered it growing up. His paintings show people hanging laundry out to dry, picking oysters, telling stories, and attending weddings and funerals. Water is found in many of his paintings because it plays an important role in the lives of people who live along the coast and on the islands.

Human beings are also found in nearly all of Green’s work, indicating the importance of family and community to the culture. The faces of the people in his paintings are usually without features. This can be interpreted as Green’s way of showing how the everyday lives and experiences of people are universal.The Gullah way of life is changing as children grow up and move away to larger towns and cities. Jonathan Green knows that his artwork cannot change what is happening to the area where he grew up. But his paintings can raise awareness of what is in danger of being lost and preserve the memories of a rich and colorful way of life.

1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Green’s way of depicting is rapidly disappearing.

B．Joining the army broadened Green’s horizons.

C．Green’s artwork raised the awareness of changing the area .

D．Green imitated the masterpiece to show respect for the masters.

2. What are you most likely to see in Green’s paintings?

A．A landscape of a beautiful village.

B．A realistic portrait of a mother telling story.

C．A fisherman casting a net.

D．A cute dog biting a bone.

3. What does the underlined word “immerse” mean ?

A．Participate.

B．Devote.

C．Contribute.

D．Expose.

4. This passage is ________.

A．a profile

B．an auto-biography

C．a review

D．an initiative

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is Stephen Wiltshire’s nationality?

A．French.

B．Japanese.

C．English.

2. What does Stephen Wiltshire do before drawing a city?

A．He walks around it.

B．He observes it on a tall building.

C．He takes a helicopter flight over it.

3. Why did Stephen Wiltshire start drawing?

A．To display the buildings.

B．To calm himself down.

C．To show his amazing memory.

4. Where is the talk most probably being given?

A．At a studio.

B．At an art exhibition.

C．At a classroom.

10 . Throughout history, many of the world’s greatest artists never achieved tremendous fame until after their death. That’s the case of Vivian Maier, who’s now considered to be one of the most important American street photographers of the last century, alongside famous names like Diane Arbus and Henri Cartier-Bresson. But she remained unknown for much of her life, and it was only a chance encounter with a box of negatives that put her in the spotlight.

Details of her life are unclear, but she was born in New York City in the 1920s to European parents. Maier grew up in France before returning to the U. S., where she spent several decades working as a nanny in Chicago to wealthy families. During her days off Maier is thought to have taken more than 100, 000 photographs of people and city scenes in Chicago, yet she kept the photos to herself-many of them never developed.

Skip ahead to 2007, a Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, came across Maier’s work by accident after purchasing a box of tens of thousands of undeveloped negatives for $380 Sat an auction (拍卖) . As he developed them, Maloof realized they were more than just photos. He was looking at evocative (唤起) art illustrating a Chicago of the mid-20-century that nobody had never seen. Maloof worked to uncover who the photographer was, acquiring more and more of her work. But before he could locate her, Maier had already passed away in 2009, having slipped on ice and never recovering from her head injury.

While Maloof researched Maier’s work, more details emerged. She kept to herself, her employers said, and she would spend her free days taking photos on the streets of Chicago with a Rolleiflex camera. According to Maloof, the children Maier took care of knew she was constantly taking photos, yet she never showed her photos to anyone. Maier also traveled around the world, as indicated by some of her photos.

Other collectors began to acquire Maier’s photos, but Maloof owns much of her work. He released a book, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, in 2011, and his documentary, Finding Vivian Maier, came out in 2013.

1. Which word can be used to describe Vivian’s life?

A．Risky.

B．Wealthy.

C．Mysterious.

D．Miserable.

2. What do we know about Vivian Maier?

A．She was born in France.

B．She never developed her photos.

C．She enjoyed great fame in her life.

D．She took photos of Chicago and other cities.

3. What did Maloof do after he found Maier’s photos?

A．He approached Maier’s former employers.

B．He managed to meet the artist in the flesh.

C．He released a collection of Maier’s work.

D．He purchased more developed negatives.

4. What can be inferred about Vivian Maier’s photos?

A．They were presented to her employers.

B．They were meant to earn her a fortune.

C．They were taken by a professional artist.

D．They were of artistic and historical value.