1 . 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。

People in New York could always see an ordinary-looking man     1    (ride) a bicycle with a relatively cheap camera around the streets. He was Bill Cunningham,     2     was one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years. He found     3    (inspire) where others could not, in simple, everyday scenes. These things were real and     4     was within their reality that he saw both beauty and potential. He thought that fashion belonged to the people, not just to high society and big     5    (brand).

Cunningham hardly ever took a day off and not once stayed home sick. This devotion and hard work is     6     makes his photos so special.

Although he was world-famous, his approach to life was     7    (complicated) . He valued his integrity and would not     8    (buy) by anyone. This lack of self-interest and promotion kept him     9    (focus) on his craft, enabling him     10    (capture) New York’s unique street style. His passion for photography lasted until he passed away.

Bill Cunningham was an observer, and not one of the observed, a worker not a star. This was how he wanted it.

2 . Musicians born after the year 2000 kicked off the Project Spring Bird music season at the Blackstone Music Plus, showcasing the passion and creativity of Generation Z.

The small orchestras were among the biggest surprises in the festival. Each of the pieces in their repertoire (全部剧目)was performed for the first time. Homewood Symphony Orchestra directors and audience alike marveled at the talent of the young performers.

The small orchestras and musicians are the products of a nurturing program aimed at developing the skills and artistic creativity of young talent. It is strongly supported by Mellon Swift, music director of the Homewood Symphony Orchestra. “For young musicians, growth not only takes time, but also a starting point to bigger stages,Mellon said. “We want to help them cross the barriers and explore their artistic passion.”

Young musicians at the beginning of their careers usually emerge from well-known competitions, but Mellon said he wants to see opportunities become more expansive. “We insist on giving them as much freedom and support as possible, so that they don’t get sidetracked by concerns about some practical elements at the beginning of their careers,” he explained. “All they are required to do is to grow artistically and explore their creative potential and ideas, ” he added.

“If a voice tells us:Just do whatever you want, and we will support you all the way, just imagine what kind of potential could emerge?” wrote conductor Karajan, who is only 21, “The future belongs to us, and it can belong to us now! ”

1. What can we learn about the small orchestras in the festival?

A．Their songs were considered as classics.	B．Their performances amazed the audience.
C．They have got chances to be world known.	D．They are faced with few developing problems.

2. What can we infer about the young musicians from the text?

A．They rose to fame from fashion shows.

B．It was they who spread the popular pieces.

C．They are budding talents in the music world.

D．It takes them little time to peak in their career.

3. What message does Mellon Swift seem to convey?

A．Young talents need help and improvement.

B．It is a long shot to explore music potential.

C．Big stages have been set for the music lovers.

D．Freedom is the only source of music inspiration.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．A Big Success: the Project Spring Bird	B．Music Directors: Passion and Creativity
C．Generation Z:A Group of Musical Talents	D．Young Musicians: “The future belongs to us”

3 . For many people, moths are dust - colored pests that eat our clothes and disturb us by flying around lights after dark. Not for artist Joseph Scheer. The pictures he creates bring out the beauty of moths, with colors, shapes, and patterns that have never been seen before so clearly. “Digital tools let you see things you'd never see just looking with your eyes,” Scheer says. Scheer's pictures have been displayed around the world, and one reaction is heard everywhere: “People insist, ‘No, that can't be a moth,’” says Scheer.

Scheer's work began with a moth hunt in the state of New York. Scheer would leave the lights on and the windows open overnight at his university office, and then collect the moths that had flown in. When the building cleaners at the university complained, he moved the hunt to his friend Mark Klingensmith's yard. They set up two lights shining over a plastic container on a white sheet. Then moths appeared from the darkness, flew into the sheet, and fell into the plastic container. “We got a different species every night,” Scheer says. “The patterns and colors were unbelievable.”

After the hunt, they used a powerful scanner to get detailed pictures of moths. Small moths presented special challenges.

The scanner records so much information that a single moth can take 20 minutes to scan. A scan of just two small moths fills an entire CD. All that information means the size of the picture can be increased by 2, 700 percent but still keep all the details and appear perfectly clear. You'd need a microscope to see the details shown in Scheer's prints.

Scheer's work is not only a new form of art. He has also made a valuable contribution to the record of the moths around him. He has helped identify more than a thousand different species. “Not from Alaska or the Amazon,” Klingensmith says. “All from one backyard.”

1. What do people mean by “No, that can't be a moth”?

A．Scheer is highly skilled at drawing	B．They don't like the pictures of moths
C．The moths in the pictures are too strange	D．The pictures seem too beautiful to be moths'

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．How Scheer caught moths	B．Scheer's working environment
C．How Scheer found moths' beauty	D．Scheer's friendship with Klingensmith.

3. The figures mentioned in Paragraph 4 show that ________ .

A．local moths have bright colors and clear patterns

B．a microscope should be used to prepare the pictures

C．clear pictures result from much detailed information

D．high quality paint must be used to create the pictures

4. What does the author think of Scheer's work?

A．It is a common form of art.	B．It benefits research on moths.
C．It'll get popular in Alaska or the Amazon.	D．It needs to overcome regional limitations.

4 . 语法填空

John James Audubon was born on April 26th, 1785 and he spent much of his childhood in France.     1    (interest)in fine arts, he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures. He particularly enjoyed observing the birds he saw.     2    (support)his family, he tried to get his painting skills improved and began to sell his paintings. We are lucky now to see so many paintings of American birds     3    (paint)by John James Audubon.

5 . 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.

6 . Having lived together in the same city for thirty years, it is almost certain that Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Beethoven (1770-1827) must have met one another on some occasion. However, the surviving evidence cannot be proved and the related accounts disagree with each other. This can be partly explained by Schubert's natural modesty(谦逊)and shyness of character, as well as Beethoven's increasing social distancing in his later years because of his deafness.

Still, we have reason to believe that the admiration between the two great musicians was mutual. Around one month before his death, Beethoven was presented with handwritten copies of various Schubert songs. After looking into the works of the younger composer, Beethoven is said to have spoken excitedly: “Truly, in this Schubert there is a great talent(天赋)!”Schubert also visited Beethoven's sickbed, and on 29 March 1827, he went to his funeral(葬礼). Twenty months later, on 19 November 1828, Schubert would pass away at the age of thirty-one.

On his deathbed, Schubert expressed the wish to listen to one of Beethoven's works.   His friend and violinist Karl Holz along with other musicians from the composer's circle played one for him. Just days before Schubert's death, Holz, who had also been a friend of Beethoven, said: “The King of Harmony has sent the King of Song a friendly bidding(请求)to the crossing.”

“Who can ever do anything after Beethoven?” These were said to be the words of Schubert while still at a young age. An admirer of Beethoven, Schubert was influenced by the great composer, whose towering figure had thrown a large shadow(阴影)over the whole of Vienna's musical world. At Schubert's own request, he was buried next to Beethoven in Vienna. Even though they hardly met in the physical world, the two great musicians would stay together in the hereafter.

1. What stopped Schubert and Beethoven from meeting each other?

A．Schubert's personality and Beethoven's disability.	B．Beethoven being much older than Schubert.
C．The competitive relationship between them.	D．The long distance between them.

2. What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A．Beethoven had a great interest in music.	B．Beethoven was productive and talented.
C．Beethoven appreciated Schubert's works.	D．Beethoven and Schubert died in the same year.

3. Who is Karl Holz?

A．A piano player.	B．The King of Song.
C．The King of Harmony.	D．A friend of the two musicians.

4. What is the purpose of this text?

A．To explain the reasons for developing lifelong friendships.

B．To describe the relationship between the two musicians.

C．To advise people to listen to great musical works.

D．To remember two world-famous musicians.

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。

Night-Shining White, which is regarded as     1     of the most important horse       2    (paint) in the history of Chinese art, was painted by a       3    (talent) artist—Han Gan. He is     4    (know) for his unique skill in capturing the physical and inner features of animal. When he was a child, he had to support his family by     5    (work) in a wine shop. One day, his talent was discovered by the poet Wang Wei, who decided     6    (sponsor) the young man. After years of hard work, Han Gan was chosen to serve Emperor Xuanzong     7    (eventual). The Tang emperors were fond     8     horses very much, so many artists chose the animal as the subject. The reason     9     his paintings are different is that he spent much time observing the horses for     10    (inspire). Till now, his paintings have won a good fame all over the world.

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。

Johann Sebastian Bach is everywhere. Weddings? Bach. Guitar solos (独奏)?Bach. Since the 19th century, he    1    (be) generally regarded as one of the     2    (great) composers of all time. The composer    3    ideas about musical form and harmony continue to influence generations of music-makers produced more than 1,100 works.

Bach was born into a family of working    4    (musician). As a child, he     5     (teach) by his father who was a violinist. Bach became parentless at the age of ten. He went to his uncle's after his parents died. In the place where he worked as a composer, Bach met a man     6     (name) Georg Bohm, who provided Bach with the chance to play organ (管风琴). Bach found     7     interesting to explore harmony and he explored it deeply, which finally allowed his music to exist apart from any particular instrument. In other words, the same piece can work as     8     (effective) on a piano as a guitar.

When Bach was sixty-five, he had     9    eye problem.   An operation, which was performed by a traveling doctor, made Bach blind. Unfortunately, Bach died shortly after,     10     (leave) only his masterpieces to the world.

9 . 语法填空

Rowan Atkinson is an English actor,     1     (comedy)and screenwriter. He is mostly famous for many     2     (success)TV shows. But internationally, we know him best as the     3     (amuse)Mr Bean.

He     4     (bring)up on a farm with his parents and three older brothers. When he was young, he was awarded a scholarship     5     a boarding school, and showed     6     talent for acting.

Later, he received     7     (far)education and obtained his master's degree. It was only at university that he decided to become an actor. A key event     8     (occur) one day in 1976     9     he was playing around and pulling a face in the mirror. “I discovered my face,” he said later.

John Lloyd     10     (convince)that Rowan would be a more famous actor than Charlie Chaplin.

10 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The eleven-year-old had just arrived in famous Carnegie Hall. He was to appear as a violin performer with the New York Symphony Orchestra. On his way from the stage entrance to the artists’ room, he saw a large fire ax (斧子) on a wall. “What’s that for?” he asked a guard.

“To cut the heads off the performers who don’t play well,” was the reply.

“And how many heads have you already cut off?”

“Oh, quite a few,” said the guard, with a friendly smile.

Some in the audience that night, especially the music critics, expected the boy’s head to roll. He was to play a difficult violin piece by Beethoven. Critics felt that this great piece should be attempted only by a mature artist. For a child, the complicated fingering would be impossible, they added.

It was November 25, 1927. That night Carnegie Hall was packed. All eyes in the audience watched for Yehudi Menuhin, the eleven-year-old violin performer, to appear on the stage. News of his talent had already excited the public imagination. There was an outburst of applause when he came out in his white silk shirt and black pants.

In a businesslike manner, Yehudi took his place near the conductor and handed his violin to the first violinist to be tuned. There was a breathless silence in the hall. When the kettledrum (定音鼓) announced the opening of the music, Yehudi stood calmly, so absorbed in the music that some people feared he would not come in on time. But, with only seconds to spare, he adjusted his violin and raised his bow. At the great singing tone that filled the hall, there was a slight excitement, and then a silence.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Listeners were impressed by his pure tone, expert fingering and wonderful skill.

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Even the newspaper critics stayed on to applaud Yehudi.

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