1 . 听下面一段短文，回答以下小题。
1. Where was Open Tchaikovsky Competition held in 1986?

A．In Moscow.

B．In Chelyabinsk.

C．In Berlin.

2. What does Maxim say about the competition he attended at 10?

A．It inspired many young musicians.

B．It was the music event of his dreams.

C．It was a life-changing experience.

3. Which kind of music are the young players required to play?

A．Rock music.

B．Pop music.

C．Classical music.

4. What does Maxim value most in young players’ performance?

A．Expressiveness.

B．Smoothness.

C．Completeness.

2 . 听力填空

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry	•One of the most important     1    performers. •Born on,     2    , 1926 in Missouri.
His music career	•He was introduced to music at school     3    . •In 1955, the song Maybellene had become popular across the country. •In 1958, he opened his own     4    . Throughout the 1960s, he wrote a lot of popular songs. •On his 90th birthday, he had plans to     5     a new album for his wife.

3 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。

Composed of more than 20, 000 Chinese characters, these special sculptures by Zheng Lu are soft and beautiful in     1     (appear) despite their stainless steel make­up. The characters used are all     2     (choose) from Chinese texts and poems. For example, the sculpture that looks like a splash of water is     3     (skillful) crafted from the lines of the poem Wan Zhi Shui (playing with water) written by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi. This fun with details can be seen throughout Zheng Lu's works. When     4     (discuss)the use of one of the most original Chinese fonts in a specific piece, he said, “You cannot figure that out from a distant view.    5    , it would not be fun.”

The contemporary Chinese sculptor     6     (interest) in calligraphy for a long time. He     7     (grow) up in a literary family with a strong traditional Chinese cultural background and his father made him     8     (take) up the practice of calligraphy when he was still very young. This skill is now apparent in many of his artworks     9     the containing of meaningful texts brings a unique feeling and significance     10     Zheng Lu's already elegant sculptures.

4 . Elvis Aaron Presley was born in the southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8,1935. His family was extremely poor. During his childhood, he sang in church with his parents. He also listened to music that influenced his later singing.

After high school, Elvis had several jobs, including driving a truck.   In 1953, he made his first recording of this song “My Happiness”. His first album was released (发行) on July 19, 1954. One of the songs was “That’s All Right”. The album sold well in Memphis,and was played a lot on local radio stations. One of Elvis’ first new recordings became a huge hit, and led to his many performances on television. It was “Heartbreak Hotel”.

By the middle of the 1950s, Elvis Presley was known around the world as the young man who moved his hips (臀部) as he sang rock and roll music. Many adults said he and his music were bad influences on young people. But young women loved him and huge crowds attended his performances.

He made his first movie in 1956. It was Love Me Tender. Elvis Presley was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood for a number of years in the 1950s. He acted in thirty-one movies.

Elvis Presley won three of the music industry’s highest award, the Grammy. He received the first one in 1967. It was for “How Great Thou Art”, an album of religious music.

Elvis Presley released many recordings of his performances during the 1970s. His last record album was called “Moody Blue”. He also enjoyed great success on television. His 1973 television show from Hawaii was seen in forty countries by more than one thousand million people.

Elvis Presley died on August 16,1977. Hundreds of thousands of people still visit his home, Graceland, in Memphis every year. Fans continue to buy his music, making him the most popular recording artist ever. Elvis Presley remains the King of Rock and Roll.

1. From the first paragraph we can know 　　　.

A．Elvis Aaron Presley was born into a very poor family

B．Elvis Aaron Presley was famous when he was a child

C．Elvis Aaron Presley taught himself music

D．Elvis Aaron Presley had no chance to listen to music during his childhood

2. The underlined part “a huge hit” in Paragraph 2 probably means 　　　.

A．a strong attack

B．a great pity

C．something that is very popular

D．something that is very strange

3. What’s the right order of Elvis’ works?
a. How Great Thou Art
b. Moody Blue
c. My Happiness
d. That’s All Right

A．d,c,a,b

B．b,a,d,c

C．c,d,a,b

D．c,a,d,b

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Elvis Presley—the highest-paid singer

B．Elvis Presley—the King of Rock and Roll

C．Elvis Presley—a successful actor in Hollywood

D．Elvis Presley—an excellent example to singers

5 . About the year 1900, a small, dark-haired boy was often seen waiting outside the back entrances of theatres in London. His name was Charlie Chaplin. He looked thin and hungry but his blue eyes were determined. He was hoping to get work in show business(娱乐界).

When Chaplin couldn’t get_________, he wandered about the city_________. He found food and shelter(栖身之处)_________he could. Sometimes he was sent away to a home for children who had no parents. He was cold and miserable there and the children were beaten for the_________fault.

By the time he was thirty, Charlie had been the greatest, best-known and best-loved_________in the world. Chaplin’s films have_________a large audience in various countries. Anyone who visited the cinema_________must have seen some of Charlie Chaplin’s funny films. People everywhere who have seen them would_________until tears run down their faces. Even people who don’t understand English can enjoy Chaplin’s films because they are mostly_________. It isn’t what he says that makes people laugh. It depends upon little____________that mean the same thing to people all over the world.

Having lived in America for 40 years, Chaplin____________to Switzerland. There he died on Christmas Day of 1977. He once described himself____________a citizen of the world, rather than of any____________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 wandering about the streets trying to find enough food to____________to keep alive, I still thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.”

1.

A．chances

B．opportunity

C．work

D．tasks

2.

A．shops

B．streets

C．factories

D．homes

3.

A．whenever

B．however

C．whatever

D．wherever

4.

A．most

B．fewest

C．least

D．slightest

5.

A．comedian

B．tragedian

C．singer

D．artist

6.

A．attacked

B．attracted

C．paid

D．enjoyed

7.

A．daily

B．regularly

C．rarely

D．occasionally

8.

A．cry

B．complain

C．laugh

D．satisfy

9.

A．silent

B．noisy

C．quiet

D．still

10.

A．sounds

B．language

C．activities

D．actions

11.

A．arrived

B．reached

C．moved

D．got

12.

A．as

B．for

C．into

D．with

13.

A．other

B．particular

C．special

D．more

14.

A．truth

B．fact

C．reason

D．secret

15.

A．eat

B．sleep

C．hide

D．drink

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box, Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. themes       B. allowed       C. suffering       D. recognised       E. founding       F. invitation G. reflected     H. strokes       I. coupled          J. talent               K. display

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was primarily known for his Chinese ink-and-wash painting of horses and birds. He was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that     1     a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also     2     as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with Chinese     3    -a show of his high proficiency (熟练) in an essential Western art technique. After the     4     of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he served as President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chairman of the Chinese Artists’ Association.

Xu Beihong showed his     5     at a very early age. He studied classic Chinese works and calligraphy with his father when he was six, and Chinese painting when he was nine. He travelled to Tokyo in 1917 to study arts. When he returned to China, he began to teach at Peking University’s School of Art at the     6     of Cai Yuanpei. Beginning in 1919, Xu studied overseas in Paris, where he studied oil painting and drawing. His travels around Western Europe     7     him to observe and imitate Western art techniques. He came back to China in 1927 and, from 1927 to 1929, he gained a number of posts at institutions in China.

In 1933, Xu Beihong organized an exhibition of modern Chinese paintings. DuringWorld War Ⅱ, Xu travelled to Southeast Asia, holding exhibitions in Singapore and India. All the proceeds (收入) from these exhibitions went to Chinese people who were     8     as a result of the war.

Xu Beihong enjoyed massive support from art collectors across Asia. Between 1939 and 1941, he held solo exhibitions in different places to help raise funds for the war relief effort in China.

Xu Beihong was a master of both Chinese ink and oil. Most of his works, however, were in the Chinese traditional style. In his efforts to create a new form of national art, he     9     Chinese brush and ink techniques with Western perspective and methods of composition. He integrated (整合) firm and bold brush     10     with the precise delineation (刻画) of form. As an art teacher, he advocated the subordination of technique to artistic conception and emphasized the importance of the artist’s experiences in life.

Xu Beihong died of a stroke in 1953. After his death, the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum was established at his house in Beijing.

7 . Four Things You May Not Know About Picasso

1. Picasso was considered a child genius.

Born in Malaga on the southern coast of Spain in 1881, Pablo Picasso could actually draw before he could talk. By age 13 he was said to have drawn better than his father, an art teacher. As a result, his father handed over his brushes to Picasso and claimed that he would never paint again. Soon after, Picasso was admitted to an art school in Barcelona. Although a month was normally allowed to complete the entrance examination, he finished his in a single day. Much later, he stated that he could draw “like Raphael” when he was young. “But it has taken me my whole life to learn to draw like a child,” he added.

2. Picasso constantly changed his painting style.

As a teenager, Picasso painted fairly realistic portraits and landscapes. He then went through his so-called blue and rose periods from 1901 to 1906, in which he painted such things as poverty-stricken children and circus scenes. He created Cubism(立体派), an abstract style that reduced subjects to geometric(几何) forms. By 1912 Picasso had invented collage(抽象拼贴画) by attaching oilcloth, newspaper clippings and other materials to the surface of his paintings.

3. Picasso helped with the creation of Cubism.

Picasso co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque around 1909. The pair regularly visited each other’s studios and exchanged ideas. In Braque’s words, it was rather “like two mountaineers roped together”. Their working relationship, which produced an increasingly abstract common technique, lasted until 1914, when Braque joined in the French army at the beginning of World War Ⅰ.

4. Picasso was not just a painter.

Though best known for his painting, Picasso experimented with a number of different mediums, including sculpture, ceramics(陶瓷), drawing and printmaking(版画). From 1917 to 1924, he even designed the curtain, sets and costumes for some ballets. The earliest of those, Parade, featured a dancer who would become his first wife and the mother of his first child. Picasso started writing poetry in 1935, and he also wrote two plays in the 1940s.

1. Picasso was a child genius, as can best be supported by the fact that ________.

A．he finished his painting for the entrance examination in one day

B．he could draw better than his parents when he was a little boy

C．he spent many years learning to draw like a child

D．he got admission to a famous art school in Barcelona

2. Which is NOT included in Picasso’s creation?

A．Curtain.

B．Costume.

C．Poetry.

D．Mask.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

A．Picasso’s painting style was always changing.

B．Picasso made his creations in various fields of arts.

C．Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism.

D．Picasso didn’t show talent for painting until his youth.

8 . Becoming Van Gogh: the Paris Years

Vincent van Gogh is considered among the greatest painters of all time. However, he remained needy and unknown throughout his life. In February 1886, Van Gogh was so poor that he could not pay his rent in Belgium. He hastened(赶往)to Paris and moved in with his brother, Theo.

The sudden move ended up being particularly influential to Van Gogh. The Dutch painter was immediately introduced to a community of young avant-garde(前卫派的)artists experimenting with new styles. It was the beginning of a two-year period that resulted in a remarkable shift in his work, from the dark hues(色调)of his early realist paintings to the colorful flowers and portraits that most people associate with Van Gogh today.

At the time, the Impressionists(印象派画家), who were already the dominant force on the French capital’s cultural scene, were busy with their explorations of light and shadow. The Pointillists(点彩派画家)were separating out colors into individual dots to form figures. The Cloisonnists(分隔派画家), meanwhile, were painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark outlines. Van Gogh became exposed to all these styles and many more, and he tried his hand at all of them.

Van Gogh was particularly inspired by the work of Adolphe Monticelli, a painter from Provence who was known for his thickly-painted and colorful flowers. Monticelli’s work was what later drew Van Gogh to the French city of Arles(阿尔勒).

“It was during that period that Van Gogh really became the artist we know today,” said Nicholas Maclean, co-director of the Eykyn Maclean Gallery in London. “He was soaking up all the influences around him. He used their techniques and developed his own style.”

However, it wasn’t only the art Van Gogh saw that influenced his style and choice of subjects. “One of the things that is probably the best-known aspect about Van Gogh is that he had little money, so he was relying on his brother all the time,” Maclean added. “He ended up focusing on flowers because they were available and cheap, but that was also the main factor that led him towards the study of color.”

1. Which one is NOT TRUE about Vincent van Gogh?

A．His poverty contributed to the formation of his style of painting.

B．His painting was greatly influenced by avant-garde artists.

C．He ended up studying colors only because of the cheap and available flowers.

D．He tried many painting styles and formed his own style finally.

2. What does the underlined phrase ”soaking up“ mean in Paragraph 5?

A．learn from

B．be absorbed in

C．change

D．pay no attention to

3. Which one has the greatest impact on Vincent’s painting directly?

A．His move to Paris.

B．Various styles of painting styles.

C．The work of Adolphe Monticelli.

D．His poverty.

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．His brother, Theo influenced his study of color most.

B．The impressionists enjoyed a great reputation in Holland.

C．It is the poverty of Van Gogh that stimulates his study of hues(色调，颜色).

D．Van Gogh learned and liked all the types of styles.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

China’s Explosive Artist

Cai Guoqing’s practice spans from gunpowder drawings to ephemeral sculptures and monumental installations, all of     1     are rich with references to Chinese history, Taoist cosmology and current political events. Cai deals with the latter in a spectacular installation for I Want to Believe, his 2008 retrospective in New York, from the centre of the Guggenheim rotunda the artist —a     2    (train) set designer, by the way —suspended Inopportune: Stage One (2004), consisting of a series of nine cars     3     (hover) in mid air to represent in cinematic progression the effect of a car bomb.

Since the 1980s, Cai has been working on drawings realized by     4     (ignite)explosive powder on large sheets of paper. These works possess an aura     5     evokes both the vivid gestures of abstract expressionism and the quieter surfaces of Chinese traditional painting. Gunpowder is also at the centre of a series of environmental works, begun in 1989,     6     combine the tradition of Land Art with     7     of Chinese fireworks. For his explosion events, Cai stages pyrotechnical choreographies that sketch temporary drawing space.

Cai’s     8    (participate) in many international events, imposes himself as one of the strongest in the sky. These events are also meant to act as social, festive collective experiences that the artist— not without irony— believes could be perceived even from outer artists to emerge from China. At the Venice Biennale 1999 he     9    (award) the Golden Lion for Venice’s Rent Collection Courtyard (1999), a series of unfired clay sculptures    10    (depict)heroes in history. Cai also organized the opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

10 . Carmen Herrera: “Every painting has been a fight between the painting and me. I tend to win. But you know how many paintings I threw in the garbage? I wouldn’t have anything were it not for my husband. He didn’t have a hand in anything? But no, they say that behind every great man there is always a woman. Well, behind a great woman there is always a man. You need it; I was very lucky. You don’t decide to be an artist; art gets inside of you. Before you know you are painting, you are so surprised. It’s like falling in love.”

Born in Cuba in 1915, Carmen Herrera lived in New York and Paris and eventually settled in New York where she lived till now. Through the years, she worked quietly and created a huge quantity of paintings. While living in New York in the 1950s, she made reductive, hard-edged abstractions that predate(早于) the works of artists such as Lygia Clark in Brazil and Ellsworth Kelly in the US. Her works also proved her foresight as Minimalism and Op Art took hold in the 1960s, and with later developments in the works of American painters such as Brice Marden Agnes Martin, both of whom are represented in the collection.

It wasn’t until 2004, at the age of 89, that Carmen Herrera sold her first painting; like many women artists of her generation, her works were overlooked despite her friendships and associations with great male artists like Barnett Newman. Now, however, the artist and her works are now receiving much-deserved attention in and beyond the US. Herrera’s paintings have entered the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Tate Modern; the Walker’s acquisition is special in that.

1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A．Carmen is addicted to drawing.

B．Carmen’s husband objects to her drawing.

C．It’s easy for Carmen to be famous.

D．Carmen sold her first picture at $1,000.

2. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 1?

A．Carmen is successful finally.

B．Carmen has sold her first painting.

C．Carmen has a good husband supporting her.

D．Carmen thinks she has a gift for drawing.

3. What is the key to Carmen’s success?

A．Kindness.

B．Love for family.

C．Passion.

D．The museum’s help.