1 . 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。

Thomas Eakins, a painter, photographer,     1     (sculpt) and fine arts educator, received little     2     (recognize) during his lifetime but he is now widely considered as one of the most     3     (influence) figures in American art history. Eakins was interested in bringing     4     the individuality of his models and created     5     are now regarded as masterpieces in portraiture (肖像画法). His most famous work, The Gross Clinic, is “celebrated as a great 19th-century medical history painting,     6     (feature) one of the greatest portraits in American art.”

Apart from his art, Eakins     7     (credit) for introducing “the camera to the American art studio”     8     for being a famous art teacher. As an early pioneer of photography, he used the medium extensively throughout his career as both a way of documenting his own work and as a tool for     9     (explore) new visual ideas. He is recognized as the most important     10     (real) in American art in the 19th and early 20th century.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When did Mozart begin to compose music?

A．At the age of four.

B．At the age of five.

C．In his early teens.

2. Where was Mozart’s first major opera performed?

A．In Milan.

B．In Vienna.

C．In Salzburg.

3. What did Mozart do when he stopped performing?

A．He did business.

B．He taught for a living.

C．He composed music.

3 . 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.

4 . 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

5 . 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.

6 . Matilda Browne (1869-1947) was a successful artist in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, few people know her name or her art today.

Matilda Browne showed promising artistic talent early in her life. Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, she got an introduction to art by watching her neighbor, painter Thomas Moran. Her parents supported their budding young artist.     1    And it paid off. Matilda Browne participated in her first major exhibition when she was just twelve years old.

Browne loved to paint animals, especially cows and other animals.     2     Her bold brushwork gave her paintings a live appearance. Her style is best described as Impressionism.

Matilda Browne quickly became a respected and successful artist. Her list of honours opened doors that would have been otherwise inaccessible for a female artist of her time. As an adult, she moved to Connecticut, where she painted in Old Lyme.     3    She even had the honor of painting a door of their workshop. Some sources say that her good sense of humor helped her fit in with the boys, while others claim that her seriousness is what won them over.     4    

Browne was a successful artist throughout her life. She won numerous awards and exhibited in many important shows. However, very few people know about her today. This is a more common story for female artists than one might think. So, why has Browne faded into being unknown?     5    She was American, while books about American Impressionists tend to focus on the male artists.

A．She was the only woman accepted into the male artists’ circle there.

B．It was her artistic style that hadn’t aroused people’s interest.

C．Her impressive skill brought her under everyone’s notice.

D．She also painted many flowers in colorful garden landscapes.

E．It could result from her double minority — in gender and nationality.

F．Her mother took her to Europe for training while she was quite young.

G．Either way, her great skill as a painter made these other artists take notice.

7 . “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes,” said US artist Andy Warhol (1928—1987). And he is quite right. Now it seems that anybody can become an instant online celebrity.

Warhol is best noted for his paintings that represent celebrity faces and US consumer goods, like Coca-Cola bottles or Campbel’s soup cans. As a great influence on the twentieth century pop art movement, Andy Warhol rose to become a cornerstone in the contemporary art world, devoted to bringing his views on materialism, politics and economics to the art. Actually, the visual world Warhol created is directly connected to his background.

In the mid-1950s, the working class gathered a great deal of fortune. They wanted to achieve a higher status in society. The consumer goods and Hollywood faces are a “working-class-coded iconography (肖像；意象) that is often misinterpreted as generally ‘American’.” Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol’s Working Class commented. Reproducing these themes in his work meant that people outside of the art world could immediately connect with Warhol’s pictures. Considered “a creature of transformation”, Warhol constantly explored with different forms of media to evoke resonance among people.

For example, in addition to being a painter, Warhol was, in the words of UK writer Peter Wollen: “A filmmaker, a writer, a photographer, a TV soap opera producer.” Warhol, in short, was what we might call a ‘Renaissance (文艺复兴) man’, even though he was a leader in pop or perhaps post-modern art.”

In his later years, he founded Interview Magazine and wrote several books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. But UK artist Gillian Wearing said, “Warhol left his mark in many more ways than his actual work.” Warhol’s works are all about “America, money, fame and death”, UK writer Jon Savage remarked. “He summed up, defined and in many ways symbolized the world in which we now live.

1. What’s Andy Warhol’s purpose of creating his paintings?

A．To highlight Renaissance style.	B．To attain fame and higher status.
C．To combine art with materialism.	D．To challenge traditional art forms.

2. What do Andy Warhol’s paintings focus on?

A．Popular drinks.	B．Average people.
C．Commercial products.	D．Living scenes of working class.

3. What does the underlined phrase “evoke resonance” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Inspire connection.	B．Receive recognition.
C．Raise inspiration.	D．Gain sympathy.

4. What kind of person is Andy Warhol according to the text?

A．Creative and critical.	B．Conservative and realistic.
C．Optimistic and encouraging.	D．Constructive and multi-talented.

8 . In real life Joanna Garcia Swisher, 41, is happily married to former Major League Baseball player Nick Swisher, 40, and raising daughters Sailor, 4, and Emerson, 7. On TV she needs the help of a matchmaker to find love in the new Hallmark Channel romance As Luck Would Have It. She opens up about raising strong girls, how her parents’ recent deaths affected her and which roles fans recognize her for the most.

You haven’t needed a matchmaker — but if life had turned out differently, would you use one?

I would totally have been game for it. I was set up by a friend of ours to meet my husband, but I think it sounds so fun.

You star opposite Allen Leech — were you a Downton Abbey fan?

I’m a huge Downton fan, but I know Allen personally very well. He happened to marry my best friend’s little sister. His mom actually cooked me dinner a couple of times while I was shooting!

You’ve been on TV since you were a teen. Which role gets you recognized most?

Sweet Magnolias now. But overall I would say Reba. I also get recognized for being Amy Adams more than I get recognized for being myself.

You lost your mother, father and grandmother in the past year and a half. How are you and your family doing?

My daughters have watched me go through so much in the last year, from the highs of the success of Sweet Magnolias to the lowest of lows, losing my parents and my grandmother. I really believe that it’s not what happens to you, it’s what happens for you. Even in their passing, as tragic as it was ... I know that it’s not for nothing. My mom was such a strong, capable, amazing woman; my father was the ultimate father and feminist and just huge source of support — and I think that solidified my strength. So I only hope that I’m modeling that same strength for my girls.

1. How does the text develop?

A．By questions and answers.	B．By listing examples.
C．By narrating life stories.	D．By comparison and contrast.

2. What does Joanna Garcia Swisher think of a matchmaker in marriage?

A．It’s strange.

B．It’s acceptable.

C．It’s terrible.

D．It’s necessary.

3. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph imply?

A．Joanna was just playing on words.	B．Joanna missed her parents much.
C．Joanna submitted herself to her fate.	D．Joanna faced the tragedy positively.

4. What can best describe Joanna Garcia Swisher according to the text?

A．Simple and talkative.	B．Stubborn and influential.
C．Strong and easy-going.	D．Negative and sensitive.