1 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. How does The Old Guitarist most probably make people feel?

A．Cheerful.

B．Puzzled.

C．Depressed.

2. What do Mother and Child and The Peasants have in common?

A．Both were created for Pablo’s friend.

B．Both belong to the same period.

C．Both have colder colours.

3. What does the creation of Three Musicians show?

A．Pablo liked trying new things.

B．Pablo loved listening to music.

C．Pablo loved to learn from others.

2 . There was once a man who penned comics(漫画) under the name Stan Lee. This man originally wished to leave comics behind and write serious literature. But he never made that career change.

Born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922 in New York City, he has contributed more to the world than just a few fun stories. At 17, Lee began working as an assistant for the Timely comics group (today’s well-known Marvel Comics). Two years later he was given a chance to write for his first comic, “Captain America”. His skills in the business led him to become the comic-book division’s editor-in-chief until 1972.

After working with comics for many years, Lee became tired of the material he was told to write. For a long time, comic books were considered silly stories. The characters weren’t complex, and the dialogue was short and simple. Lee wanted more from his work.

The Fantastic Four was born after his wife asked, “Why don’t you write one book the way you would like to do it?” With that comic, Lee helped change comics from simple action stories to the complex narratives (叙述文) they are today. However, he still hasn’t done changing the industry.

In the early 1960s, Stan Lee and another writer created the Spider-Man character. In one edition of Spider-Man, Lee wrote a story in which the superhero’s friend almost dies from drug abuse. From the 1950s until 2011, comic publishers followed the rules given by the Comics Code Authority (CCA), who disapproved of drug use in comics.

But Lee published the comic without CCA’s agreement. The story sold, and there was a positive response to the story’s focus on a serious problem in society. The CCA ended up changing its rules to allow more inspirational stories like this.

From this victory, Lee went on to create more interesting and realistic characters that dealt with both super and real life problems.

1. The underlined part “that career” in Paragraph 1 refers to the job as _____.

A．a superhero	B．a comic actor
C．a comic book creator	D．a serious literature writer

2. When was Captain America written by Stan Lee?

A．In 1939.

B．In 1941.

C．In 1960.

D．In 1972.

3. When The Fantastic Four was created, what happened to the comic industry?

A．Spider-Man was published.

B．Stan Lee left the comic industry.

C．Stan Lee’s wife began to work on comics.

D．The comics began to tell complex stories.

4. What can we know from the text?

A．Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee himself.

B．Stan Lee likes to discuss social issues in his comics.

C．The story of Spider-Man came from Stan Lee’s friend.

D．The CCA has been carrying out rules without changing them.

3 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main points of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Animated movies use drawings instead of real people. Artists must draw thousands of pictures and each picture must be a little different. For example, if the movie-maker wants to show a girl running, the artist must draw her feet in different places in each picture. When the pictures are shown very quickly, one after the other, it looks like the girl is running. Walt Disney was not the first or only person to use animation in movies, but he is the most renowned. His first Mickey Mouse cartoon, produced in 1927, was called Plane Crazy. This was a short, silent movie about the adventures of a little mouse.

Many people in the movie business thought that animation was only appropriate for short cartoons. Disney did not agree with them. He believed that he could tell any kind of story using animation. His first long movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Disney spent all his money making this movie. Fortunately, it was a great success. He made Pinocchio next and then Dumbo (about a baby elephant), and he didn’t look back after this.

When we think of Disney, however, we don’t only think of movies, we also think of Disneyland. There are Disneylands in Japan, the United States of America and France. They are large parks where people can meet Disney’s characters and visit scenes from his movies.

Although Walt Disney made many of the famous movies many years ago, they are as popular now as they were when he made them. Today we can buy them on video and see them in movie theatres from time to time. When Walt Disney began making his animated cartoons all those years ago, people drew all the pictures by hand. Nowadays computers do much of his work.

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4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Toby Mott was just an ordinary person working as an artist. But then, at the age of 36, he had an idea that made him famous. It started when he wanted     1     (earn) some money for the holidays one year. His product was simple­­­ a short message of five words     2     a T­shirt.

He took the T­shirts   to a clothing store and they sold 40 in a week.     3     (immediate), he decided to start     4     (he) own business. The product was good. In the past 12 months, he has sold 60,000 T­shirts worldwide.

The     5     (phrase) for the T­shirts come from things he thinks of during the day and from conversations with friends at dinner. His customers,     6     (include) the rich and the famous, enjoy his imaginative phrases. They include things like I will spend your money, and I do things I shouldn’t.Mott says, “I’m successful,     7     it hasn’t changed my     8     (person) life. I still     work at home on the same small desk. My friends, whom I     9     (know) for more than 20 years, are still my friends. In fact, they’re as     10     (surprise) about my success as I am.”

5 . Listening to guitarist Milos Karadaglic’s album, you will find yourself wandering in a world where you are surrounded by amazing classical guitar music. “I want to wake classical guitar music up from its hibernation and show what I can do and what my instrument can do,” said Milos.

Born 37 years ago in a small town in Yugoslavia, he was inspired from an early age to be a performer. Since his country had a small population and no formal music school, making a career on the instrument was extremely hard for him. It all began when Milos discovered an ancient, dusty guitar with broken strings in his basement. Strangely, this broken instrument convinced him that he must become a guitarist. By the age of 9, he was giving public performances, and at 11 he won his first national competition. He was also a talented singer and became star of TV and radio.

Unfortunately, Yugoslavia was torn apart in 1992, and because of the war, Milos’ family suffered food shortages. Fast forward to 1996, when Milos became a teenager, he had his first opportunity to travel outside of his hometown to play a concert. It was in Paris where he was amazed by its western European prosperity and air of Christmas happiness.

During the trip, he made up his mind to study at the Royal Academy of Music. He sent a home-made tape of his performance to the academy, where a professor found something special in his playing, so Milos was admitted to the academy. Afterwards, Milos earned first-class honors and a master’s degree, and his albums are highly praised by other world-famous guitarists.

However, this is just the beginning for Milos, and his horizons seem limitless. He has been making a variety of plans for broadening the classical music’s reach.

1. What can we learn about Milos from this story?

A．He studied music in a college in his own country.

B．It was his master’s degree that made him famous.

C．Travelling to Paris enabled him to get further education.

D．Poverty was the main reason for him to play the guitar.

2. How was Milos admitted to the Royal Academy of Music?

A．By being introduced to a professor by his teacher.

B．By sending a tape of his performance.

C．By taking part in a music competition.

D．By having a college entrance exam.

3. Which of the following is the correct order of Milos’ experiences?
a. He discovered an old, broken guitar.
b. He won the national competition for the first time.
c. He made his mind to study at the Royal Academy.
d. He travelled to Paris to play a concert for the first time.

A．a, c, d, b

B．b, a, d, c

C．c, b, a, d

D．a, b, d, c

4. What can be the theme of the text?

A．Talented guitarist pursues the highest level.

B．The limitless horizons of guitar music.

C．A guitar hero’s success in war.

D．Guitar music from Yugoslavia.

6 . The moment he saw an organ, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart knew what to do with it, Aged six, already skilled at the clavier（键盘乐器）, he came across pedals （踏板） and stops for the first time in an Austrian church. Within moments he was playing an accompaniment and composing on the spot freely. In the following year, 1763, an official in Heidelberg was so astonished by his organ-playing that he had a plate carved for his church to mark the boy's visit. Mozart composed his first symphony at eight.

Youthful promise often declines. With Mozart the opposite was true. Through him classical music may have found its most ideal expression. As Jan Swafford writes in his outstanding biography, Mozart's compositions displayed “a kind of effortless perfection so easily worn that they seem almost to have written themselves”. He drafted quickly, often without needing to revise. He “could express delight by the yard”. A man of his time, Mozart was equally at home composing for the concert salon or the opera stage.

He is the subject of many biographies, but the leading one, by Hermann Aber, is 100 years old and 1, 600 pages long. Safford, himself a composer and a programme-writer, offers an updated and authoritative life, easy to understand, beautifully written, and full of critical judgments and sharp notes on the works.

Mozart' s way with melody （旋律） and keen view of human nature-his letters reveal an almost Dickensian ability to paint characters-combined to promote opera from desserts to a serious medium, the author argues. “His wisdom, his ability to observe people and their weaknesses, his fascination with the craze for love - al this made him the perfect composer" of the form, Mr Swafford thinks.

He was admired in his time. Most of his music stuck to conventional structures yet went over the heads of the average listener. Legend has it that his most important fan, Emperor Joseph II, reacted to one performance with an impressive comment: “Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart!”

1. What does paragraph 1 mainly discuss?

A．The true origin of the symphony.

B．Musical instruments in Mozart's time.

C．Mozart's remarkable talent for music.

D．A friendship between Mozart and an official.

2. What does Swafford think of Mozart's compositions?

A．They sounded perfect.	B．They expressed his criticism.
C．They were created hurriedly.	D．They should be performed outdoors.

3. How does Mozart's biography by Swafford stand out?

A．By comparing contemporary musicians' works.

B．By giving professional and accessible comments.

C．By including the remarks of Emperor Joseph II.

D．By referring to other writers' constructive advice.

4. What did Mozart contribute to?

A．Creating music for folk stories.

B．Inspirations for Dickens' works.

C．Reforms of conventional structures.

D．Transforming opera to a serious art form.

7 . In Brazzaville, where art stalls can be found everywhere, local artist Andre N'Kitengue finds his inner peace on canvas in spite of traffic noise. At his _______studio，Andre starts his day as usual in front of his paint stand. Unlike other artists who see silence and_______during making art, he_______to take the inspiration from the_______street.“ The noise here actually gives me the strength to stay_______,”he says.

Though coloring his canvas and dealing with_______are his bread and butter, Andre insists that he is always an artist, not a businessman, as he_______ a sense of responsibility for his local community. With cases rising in Africa, he now_______paintings that serve as prevention_______for local community.“As cars pass by my studio, drivers and passengers would be able to see my ________about the virus and be aware of the fact that the pandemic is not over yet," he says. He________that it is in this hard time that we need to stay________ and that by________ the real life, he wants to________the image of his country to the world.

“Brazzaville is an artistic city because of its unique history and we need to pass it on to our younger generations," he says. Andre is also an active teacher who________students during school vacations.________, Elvis, Andre's son, is on his way to become a professional like his father. Impressive________keep coming out of this father-son studio.

Andre is ________ to see that more Chinese visitors and artists have ________here. He says he is looking forward to the________ of the artists from two countries.

1.

A．new

B．old

C．outdoor

D．indoor

2.

A．darkness

B．loneliness

C．light

D．space

3.

A．refuses

B．regrets

C．promises

D．prefers

4.

A．lively

B．narrow

C．commercial

D．quiet

5.

A．smart

B．positive

C．professional

D．creative

6.

A．buyers

B．dealers

C．artists

D．fans

7.

A．lacks

B．imagines

C．builds

D．carries

8.

A．refers to

B．focuses on

C．stands by

D．gives up

9.

A．systems

B．designs

C．reminders

D．effects

10.

A．studios

B．paintings

C．investigations

D．reports

11.

A．replies

B．introduces

C．adds

D．compares

12.

A．depressed

B．united

C．awake

D．alive

13.

A．drawing

B．living

C．filming

D．studying

14.

A．express

B．explain

C．offer

D．present

15.

A．relies on

B．calls at

C．takes in

D．brings up

16.

A．Actually

B．Eventually

C．However

D．Meanwhile

17.

A．pieces

B．performances

C．interviews

D．stories

18.

A．terrified

B．surprised

C．embarrassed

D．confused

19.

A．failed

B．worked

C．arrived

D．existed

20.

A．cooperation

B．contribution

C．preparation

D．education

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。

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and     1     Oscar for playwriting. Shaw never used his first name “George” personally—he was “Bernard Shaw” throughout his long career. Since his death it     2    （become）a custom to use all three of his names, even in reference works. Shaw is described     3     the most frequently-staged playwright after William Shakespeare.     4     this may be a slight exaggeration（夸张）, Shaw is unquestionably the most important playwright in the English language since the Bard（莎士比亚）. Influenced by Ibsen and other playwrights, Shaw     5    （introduce）a new, realistic style of drama to the English theatre.     6    （like）Ibsen, Chekhov, or even Eugene O'Neill, however, Shaw is unique among modern playwrights because of his sense of humour and     7    （believe）in higher morality. Although his plays, like     8    （that）of his contemporaries, dwell upon shocking and often gloomy subject matter, Shaw is perhaps the only major playwright of his generation     9    （explore）the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century without falling into pessimism and despair. His plays, at times ironic, and at times sincere, are among the most educational,     10    （last）and moving works of high drama ever produced in the English language.

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。

Han Gan, a leading horse painter, was born in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and he     1     (know) for portraying not only the physical likeness of a horse     2     also its spirit. His most famous work is a portrait of night-shining White,   a favorite war horse of the emperor Xuanzong. The imported fiery-tempered horse, with     3     (it) burning eyes and dancing feet, was called “sweat blood horse”.

This sensitive, precise drawing, characterized by delicate ink shading, is     4     example of “baihua” (white painting), as opposed to full color painting. The later term “baimiao” (white drawing) means line drawing without shading, as     5     (see) in the paintings of Li Gonglin in the Northern Song period.

The various seals and inscriptions (题词)added to the     6     (attract) painting and its borders by later owners and experts     7     (be) a distinctive feature of Chinese collecting and appreciation. While     8     (collect) are sometimes over-enthusiastic about showing their appreciation     9     this manner, the addition of seals and comments by later viewers has served    10    (record)a work's transmission and offer vivid evidence of an artwork's endless influence on later generations.

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｡

The Book of Songs, also known as Shi Jing, is the oldest existing     1     (collect) of Chinese poetry. Three years ago, when Chinese musician Fang Jinlong read Shi Jing, he was interested in the stories told through the poems. Because he couldn’t     2     (full) understand the ancient Chinese language     3     (use) in the poems, he turned to experts whose elaboration further attracted him to explore the poems.

Then he decided to portray the poems with musical language by inviting composer Ma Jiuyue     4     (create) an album. Titled Music and the Book of Songs, the album was released on Jan 18,     5     (feature) 10 original songs composed by Ma. They     6     (perform) by Fang and won great popularity.

The 10 songs are based on 10 poems from Shi Jing, including Qiong Yao, which conveys gratitude to people who are eager to help others, Swallows, which     7     (send) farewell messages to friends and Jia Yu, which portrays the scenes of a joyful banquet.

“Young people gave warm feedback about traditional Chinese music     8     they had watched my performance. It inspired me to create more works for them, which helps popularize traditional Chinese music,” says Fang.

“The 10 pieces sound     9     (enjoy) and easy. For the listeners, it’s a fresh way to comprehend poems from Shi Jing,” says Ma. “We spent three years working on     10    project. There are so many meanings in the poems and we want to display them as deep as possible with music,” Ma says, “It’s our mutual goal to have traditional Chinese music reach a wider audience.”