2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch in 1893. What makes     1     striking is that it shows a thin figure     2     an expression of fear——the figure’s mouth is wide open and letting out a     3    (power) scream. The figure covers his or her ears and looks    4    (direct)at the viewer. This figure is     5    (set) on a bridge above a dark, stormy sea, and    6     a burning orange-red sky. In his diary, Munch talked about     7     inspired him. “I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly the sky turned as red as blood. I stood there     8     (shake). Then I heard the scream of nature.” Many experts say that The Scream is connected to Munch’s     9     ( mentally ) health problems,     10     caused him a lot of pain.

3 . 假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Chris特别崇拜那些为艺术献身的艺术家,也喜欢了解他们的艺术人生。请你用英文给他写一封信介绍我国著名舞蹈艺术家杨丽萍,内容包括:
1.人物简介;
2.艺术成就;
3.其他了解途径。
注意:
1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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5 . German artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash (废物) to make sculptures. “We are living in the time of garbage,” says Schult. “I created a thousand sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves.” Here, Schult was talking about his 1,000 trash sculptures in the form of humans. He first exhibited them in 1996 in the western German state of North Rhine－Westphalia.

“They are social sculptures,” he explains. “They are not only sculptures for the eyes. They are sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.” So far, Schult’s social sculptures have been on show in Paris, in Moscow’s Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Pyramids of Giza near Cairo.

HA Schult’s work is unforgettable. Although his work has had a big influence on the art world, Schult remains modest about his creations: “Artists have to learn every time. We are not important. All that counts is the time in which we are living.”

Trash art has been around for years. But it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with trash. Why can’t common people be considered artists when they use the same things and change them into some form of personal art? Maybe it’s because we all have our own preset ideas of what art is and isn’t, or whom artists are or should be.

You can be an artist like Schult if you try. Look at used metal cans. What might be done with them? Imagine them in any number of new uses, or imagine them simply as an art form. What about boxes or clothing? Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for pets. And clothing? Imagine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or hanging organizers.

1. HA Schult’s artistic works also get the message across that an artist must ________.

A．be socially responsible

B．be as modest as possible

C．make garbage recyclable

D．take diverse artistic forms

2. According to the last 2 paragraphs, the author probably agrees that ________.

A．it takes talent to be a trash artist

B．preset ideas are important to artists

C．trash art can't be seen as a real art form

D．average people can also make trash artists

3. What do we know about Schult’s sculptures?

A．They served as garbage containers.

B．They reflected environmental issues.

C．They were first shown in Paris, France.

D．They were to raise economic awareness.

7 . About the year 1900, a small, dark­haired boy was often seen waiting outside the back entrance of London theaters. His name was Charlie Chaplin. He looked thin and hungry_________ his blue eyes were determined. He was hoping to get work in show business.

When Chaplin couldn’t get _________, he wandered about the city_________. He found food and shelter_________he could. Sometimes he was _________ to a home for_________who had no parents. He was cold and miserable there and the children were beaten for the _________ fault.

By the time he was thirty, Chaplin was the greatest, best­known and best­loved _________ in the world. Chaplin’s films have _________ a large audience in various __________. Even people who don’t understand English can __________Chaplin’s films because they are mostly __________. It isn’t what he says that makes us laugh. It depends upon little __________ that mean the__________ thing to people all over the world.

Having lived in America for forty years, Chaplin__________ to Switzerland. There he died on Christmas Day 1977. He once __________ himself as a citizen of the world,__________ of any particular country.

He once wrote，“You have to believe in yourself. That’s the __________ of success. Even when I was in the children’s home, when I was__________ about the streets trying to find enough food to __________to keep alive, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.”

1.

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．because

2.

A．chance

B．opportunity

C．work

D．task

3.

A．shops

B．streets

C．factories

D．homes

4.

A．whenever

B．however

C．whatever

D．wherever

5.

A．sent away

B．sent for

C．sent up

D．sent off

6.

A．boys

B．girls

C．children

D．adults

7.

A．little

B．few

C．least

D．slightest

8.

A．comedian

B．tragedian

C．director

D．artist

9.

A．attacked

B．attracted

C．paid

D．enjoyed

10.

A．places

B．countries

C．theaters

D．films

11.

A．see

B．watch

C．enjoy

D．value

12.

A．silent

B．noisy

C．quiet

D．still

13.

A．gestures

B．language

C．activities

D．actions

14.

A．easy

B．same

C．different

D．similar

15.

A．arrived

B．reached

C．moved

D．got

16.

A．described

B．instructed

C．conducted

D．encouraged

17.

A．other than

B．rather than

C．or rather

D．other from

18.

A．truth

B．fact

C．reason

D．secret

19.

A．wondering

B．traveling

C．wandering

D．walking

20.

A．drink

B．sleep

C．hide

D．eat

8 . 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。

Charlie Chaplin is absolutely a master of nonverbal humor,    1     made people happy. However, his life was anything but easy. He was born in a poor family     2     1889. His parents were both poor     3     (perform), and it is astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance. Unfortunately his father died,    4     (leave) the family even worse off. By his teens, Charlie     5     (become) one of the most popular child actors in England.

With time going by, he began making films. His charming character made the audience laugh     6     (happy) when they felt depressed. He brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and     7     (produce) the films he starred in. Because     8    his outstanding performance, in 1972 he     9     (award) a special Oscar and remembered forever. To this day, Charlie Chaplin is still considered as one of the     10     (great) actors in the history of the cinema.

9 . 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。

Nathan Sawaya’s childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and so on. Nathan Sawaya was     1     (interest) in building blocks when he was young. At the age of 5, his grandparents bought his first set of building blocks and he     2     (play) with them ever since. He even took his building blocks to college with him. Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village     3     (make) of bricks on his desk.

Nathan started as a lawyer     4     gave up his well-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks     5     are used by him to make pieces of art in his office in New York. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait. It took him two days just     6     (build) the eyes.

Nathan’s works have appeared in museums around     7     world. People love his arts because they are     8     (fascinate). Since it began in 2007, Nathan’s exhibition “The Art of the Brick” has been very popular with museum     9     (visitor) everywhere.

“I have fulfilled my childhood dream, and I have actually made a job out of it,” Nathan says     10     (proud). “To do what you love in life is the most important thing.”

10 . 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。

When Beethoven was only four, his father decided to make him a musician. Beethoven was made to practice     1     (play) different musical instruments hour after hour. Whenever he did not put his heart into his practice, his father would be strict     2     him.

    3     (fortune), the boy loved music very much and learnt so fast that he was able to go around and give     4     (concert) when he was only 11. When he was 17, he received high praise from Mozart,     5     great Austrian composer. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna     6     ( study) under Haydn, another great Austrian composer. Then he     7     (write) a great deal of music, even at his most difficult time. But after one illness, he suddenly found     8     (him) deaf at the age of 31.

However, this didn’t stop Beethoven. During his life, he composed about 30 pieces of music. It is     9     (amaze) that he wrote some of his best pieces after he became deaf, many of     10     are well known and loved all over the world.