1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to Stevie Wonder shortly after his birth?

A．He was unable to see.

B．He couldn’t hear anything.

C．He broke his arm.

2. When did Stevie Wonder have his first hit record?

A．As a child.

B．As an adult.

C．As a teenager.

3. When was Stevie Wonder’s most successful period?

A．In the 1960s.

B．In the 1970s.

C．In the 1980s.

2 . As a physically fit 89-year-old big band singer, Tony Bennett performed timeless ballads (民歌，情歌) perfectly. He was an exception to the belief of aging and decline.

However, the trouble with his _______ concerned Bennett, especially since it might impact his ability to put on his signature fine-tuned show. Eventually, Bennett was _______ with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017.

After receiving the diagnosis, Bennett insisted on continuing to perform. “Tony has always had a very _______ attitude,” his wife Benedetto says. “He was going to keep going straight ahead _______ he always has.”

As one of only a few artists to produce chart-topping records every decade since the 1950s — _______ more than 60 albums — Bennett is an American icon (偶像). His _______ “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” and “Rags to Riches”, among many others — have earned him 19 Grammy Awards.

_______ the disease, Bennett’s desire to help others connect through music remained strong. He felt it _______ to make people feel good.

In February 2021, Bennett _______ shared that he was living with Alzheimer’s in an interview. Shortly after the news, the ________ from the public was overwhelmingly supportive. In October, Bennett and Lady Gaga released ________ is billed as Bennett’s final studio album, “Love for Sale.” Upon its release, Bennett earned the Guinness World Records ________ for the oldest artist to release an album of new material.

As the disease ________, music has a renewed importance in Bennett’s life. Over seven decades, Bennett’s brave and ________ voice is helping people find joy among life’s hardships. “He gives people courage and hope. And he is ________.”

1.

A．memory

B．appearance

C．finance

D．origin

2.

A．charged

B．assigned

C．diagnosed

D．choked

3.

A．negative

B．positive

C．professional

D．confident

4.

A．as

B．like

C．except

D．if

5.

A．adopting

B．discounting

C．packing

D．totaling

6.

A．beats

B．instances

C．plots

D．hits

7.

A．Though

B．Unless

C．Despite

D．Unlike

8.

A．incredible

B．honorable

C．convincing

D．dynamic

9.

A．publicly

B．secretly

C．instantly

D．critically

10.

A．response

B．priority

C．influence

D．resolution

11.

A．how

B．why

C．when

D．what

12.

A．topic

B．title

C．theme

D．model

13.

A．spreads

B．exposes

C．progresses

D．explodes

14.

A．hopeful

B．original

C．faithful

D．merciful

15.

A．moving the goalposts

B．walking on air

C．taking no notice

D．leading the way

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。

The Yuan Dynasty witnessed the maturity of Chinese landscape painting. The techniques of ink and wash     1     (employ) in this period, which brought Chinese landscape painting     2     the peak of prosperity and splendor. The ink-and-wash landscape painters developed the idea     3     a stretch of landscape represents a stretch of one’s spiritual world.

Ni Yunlin, Wu Zhen, Huang Gongwang and Wang Meng were known as the “Four Masters of the Yuan”,     4     enjoyed the free clouds and green mountains of nature. Of them all Ni Yunlin is considered to be     5     typical.

In Ni’s The Rongxi Studio, colours are completely abandoned and “the level and distant” method is applied to the     6     (compose) of the painting, so as to achieve the effect of peace and detachment (超脱). The world     7    (create) here is the world in the artist’s mind: cold mountains and insignificant waters reveal the     8    (painter) desire to leave the earthly world. Withered (枯萎的) trees convey the artist’s pursuit of freedom, though it sometimes means     9     (pain) loneliness. The small pavilion under the trees is “Rongxi Studio,” the name meaning a studio big enough only     10     (hold) a knee-a reflection of a human being’s inferior position in the universe.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who might the woman be?

A．A TV hostess.

B．A news broadcaster.

C．The hostess of a cultural activity.

2. What did Daniel Robinson do at the age of 10?

A．He wrote his own music.

B．He started learning the piano.

C．He joined the Julliard School.

3. What will Daniel Robinson do?

A．Give a speech.

B．Give a concert.

C．Sign some books.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在在答题纸1相应空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Wearing a traditional Chinese qipao, conductor Nucrbana Yiming’s     1     (perform) has received thunderous applause from the audience at the Chinese Lunar New Year concert in Urumqi. A 35-year-old performer from Xinjiang, often known as Bana, is the only female conductor at the Xinjiang Art Theater so far. Her passion     2     music came from her family: her father was a clarinetist (单簧管手).     3     (influence) by her father, she started her violin and piano training at the age of eight.

In 2004, she     4     (admit) into the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan to study as a conductor. “Every day I     5     (carry) thousands of pages of music sheets from my dorm to the classroom. I needed to memorize them     6     a really short time,” she recalled. “Sometimes I questioned myself and wondered     7     it was better for me to be a street vendor (街头小贩).”     8     (fortunate), all her efforts paid     9     in the end.

Before her graduation in 2009, she received an offer from the Xinjiang Art Theater. Bana has a deep understanding of her role in the theater: she considers herself as a bridge     10     connects professions, Xinjiang folk music, modern instruments and the world. “My job is to integrate the music knowledge and the concepts I’ve learned abroad into each show of our folk orchestra,” she said.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who might the woman be?

A．A TV hostess.

B．A news broadcaster.

C．The hostess of a cultural activity.

2. What did Daniel Robinson do at the age of 10?

A．He wrote his own music.

B．He started learning the piano.

C．He joined the Julliard School.

3. What will Daniel Robinson do?

A．Give a speech.

B．Give a concert.

C．Sign some books.

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。

A delicate pottery-making video went viral on popular video sharing app TikTok,     1     (attract) more than 45 million views and 4.2 million likes overseas, leading to the     2     (popular) of the craftsman     3     made the miniature ceramics (微型陶瓷) with his fingertips, bamboo sticks and tweezers.

Wang Wenhua, a post-80s ceramicist in Jingdezhen, who     4     (produce) miniature ceramics for more than five years, says he will proceed to develop the craft.     5     (learn) through lectures at a university, he established his own studio making medium and large-sized porcelains.

This business experience gave him the chance to shift his focus to the creation of miniature ceramics because he    6     (believe) traditional pottery doesn’t     7     (easy) grab people’s attention in the modern world.

In 2018, Wang Wenhua     8     (register) his own account on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok,     9     uploaded videos of his manufacturing process. The videos soon became viral online, with the most popular viewed more than 10 million times in China. His videos also earned him a reputation overseas. On TikTok, his videos     10     (receive) over 120 million clicks, likes and comments till now.

8 . Washington, DC—In a press conference today, the National Gallery of Art will share groundbreaking new findings about Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) to be explored in the exhibition of Vermeer’s Secrets, opening on October 8, 2022.

These findings led a team of professors and scientists working together to determine that the painting Girl with a Flute was made by a partner of Vermeer-not by the Dutch artist himself, as was previously believed.

This challenges the long-held belief that he was alone genius and, instead, assumes him as an instructor to the next generation of artists. In part because Vermeer’s collection of works contains only about 35 accepted paintings, professors have generally considered it unlikely that he had students or partners. With no surviving documents to provide evidence of a workshop, it was believed that he must have worked alone.

The existence of other artists working with Johannes Vermeer is perhaps one of the most significant new findings about the artist to be discovered in decades. It changes thoroughly the popular understanding of Vermeer, building on decades of research and using advanced scientific technology to expose exciting discoveries that add new knowledge to the secret artist. “I am unbelievably proud of the team of National Gallery staff who worked together to study these paintings,” said Kay win Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art.

On view through January 8, 2023, Vermeer’s Secrets offers audiences a behind-the-scenes look at how National Gallery professors and scientists studied the museum’s four treasured paintings—as well as two 20th-century fake(假的) copies—to understand “what makes a Vermeer a Vermeer”.

Research also led scientists to determine that Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat was made at a turning point in the artist’s career. They recognized Girl with the Red Hat as a key work that points to Vermeer’s late style.

1. What does the underlined word “This” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．That a workmate of Vermeer worked on Girl with a Flute.

B．That a team of devoted professors and scientists worked together.

C．That Vermeer was alone instructor to the next generation of artists.

D．That there is no surviving evidence of Vermeer owning a workshop.

2. What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A．The property of the research.

B．The process of the new research.

C．The praise from Kay win Feldman.

D．The significance of the new finding.

3. Why was the exhibition of Vermeer’s Secrets held?

A．To guide us to enjoy Vermeer’s paintings.

B．To offer us a better understanding of Vermeer.

C．To show us alone and familiar painting genius.

D．To give us an insight into Dutch art of painting.

4. What will the author most probably talk about next?

A．What effects the new findings have on the previous views.

B．Whether Girl with the Red Hat was created by Vermeer alone.

C．How Girl with the Red Hat is different from Girl with a Flute.

D．Why Girl with the Red Hat marked a turning point in Vermeer’s career.

9 . Emma Towers-Evans first picked up a pencil when she was just two years old and said her love for drawing originated from Free Willy, a film about killer whales. Emma loved drawing as a hobby during her childhood and teens, but never thought it could be a future career. But after attending the University of Surrey for music and sound-recording, she began drawing portraits (肖像) of people’s pets. Now she creates incredible portraits of people and animals which are so realistic that they look like photos.

As her success continued, Emma decided to focus on drawing full-time and set up her own website. Now the pencil artist sells her own original work and 25 percent of earnings from sales of her big cat series of prints go toward conservation charities like the Born Free Foundation and LionAid.

The 29-year-old often completes the drawings on a large piece of Al or A0 paper and estimates each piece of artwork can have upwards of 0.5 million individual pencil strokes (笔画). And it takes her up to 100 hours to draw an excellent hyper-realistic pencil drawing.

Since the pandemic lockdown, Emma has been making videos of her painting process and sharing them on TikTok, which have got 265,000 followers and 4.5 million likes. “The first one I posted was a time delay video of a portrait and I can’t believe how popular it has become. The comments and support I get are amazing,” the self-taught artist said. “It’s really exciting to see something come alive on the paper. It took me years of practice, patience, and dedication to get to where I am today. I think anyone can get to that level as long as they have the same determination and self-belief.”

1. What can we learn about Emma Towers-Evans?

A．She desired to be a painter as a little child.

B．She was especially good at drawing whales.

C．She majored in painting during her college years.

D．She managed to turn her hobby into a career.

2. What do the figures in paragraph 3 show?

A．Good artwork is physically demanding.

B．Pencil drawings come in various sizes.

C．Pencil drawing requires much patience.

D．Pencil drawing needs professional skills.

3. How did people react to Emma’s videos on TikTok?

A．They showed little interest in them.

B．They welcomed and enjoyed them.

C．They were confused by her drawing techniques.

D．They were disappointed by the long drawing process.

4. What message does Emma try to convey in the last paragraph?

A．Rome wasn’t built in a day.

B．Time and tide wait for no man.

C．Where there is life, there is hope.

D．All things are difficult before they are easy.

10 . As the saying goes, “Interest is the seed of everything”. Since childhood, Cantero had been living with football that had a _________ effect on her. She had always loved football as well as art, and fortunately she found a way to _________ the two things.

Lili Cantero prepared a new colorful show of her works to take to the World Cup in Qatar. The 29-year-old artist was famous for _________ soccer shoes for stars. Her new artworks included shoes and balls with pictures and designs. Many of them were _________ by the Middle Eastern nation, Qatar, and especially its capital Doha brought her lots of _________ ideas. The city welcomed national teams from the world to _________ in the World Cup.

Cantero _________ sent a pair of shoes to Argentine star Lionel Messi. The shoes had fancy details with black and white image of the _________ and his family. She didn’t know if Messi would even receive the shoes. But _________, she received a photo of Messi holding them. That marked a turning point in her__________. Then her colorful designs __________ other stars. She even met a famous former Brazilian star and gave him a pair of __________ and a football showing a kiss his mother had given him after winning an award in 2005.

In Qatar, Cantero planned to show eight footballs with designs that showed her __________ for eight countries winning the World Cup, thinking that they were __________ of the admiration of all. Finally, the footballs were the centerpiece of the World Cup exhibition, while the boots were presented within three-dimensional __________ looking like the stadiums that Qatar built for the World Cup.

1.

A．slight

B．limited

C．significant

D．temporary

2.

A．compare

B．explain

C．investigate

D．connect

3.

A．making

B．painting

C．purchasing

D．donating

4.

A．inspired

B．checked

C．sponsored

D．arranged

5.

A．narrow

B．conventional

C．novel

D．literary

6.

A．turn

B．compete

C．speak

D．explore

7.

A．still

B．never

C．often

D．ever

8.

A．artist

B．judge

C．player

D．photographer

9.

A．in surprise

B．in vain

C．on time

D．on hand

10.

A．plan

B．career

C．team

D．stadium

11.

A．confused

B．hurt

C．changed

D．drew

12.

A．sweaters

B．glasses

C．boots

D．socks

13.

A．respect

B．insurance

C．debt

D．cost

14.

A．aware

B．worthy

C．ignorant

D．suspicious

15.

A．maps

B．rocks

C．movements

D．structures