2 . 阅读下面材料，在答题卡相应位置处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

At the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Ge,    1     paper-cutting artist, runs a market stand where impressive examples of her work are on display in the popular tourist destination.

Growing up in the region and influenced by diverse ethnic cultures, she is committed to     2    (tell)Xinjiang stories through her paper cutting while protecting and promoting the traditional folk art. “Paper cutting is a     3     (combine) of folk art and daily life,” said Wang, who graduated     4    the art department of Xinjiang Normal University.

During her decades of paper cutting she     5    (inspire) by real-life experiences, especially those relating to ethnic culture in the region. She often travels to Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu in southern Xinjiang to explore     6    local ethnic people live. One of her works features 20 people     7     (dress) in traditional costumes with musical    8    (instrument) in hand, singing and dancing in a grape garden. Wang saw the lively scene when she was traveling in Aksu.

After the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang gave online lectures on paper cutting, attracting 100, 000 viewers and teaching students     9     (able) to attend school how to cut the images of medical workers from paper. Wang said she was pleased     10    (see)pupils who lacked colored paper painting the white paper red and green as an exchange art form.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式每空最多填3个单词。

Have you ever dreamed about being well-known     1     a popular musician? Many musicians, at first, may form a band     2     (practice) their music. And then they may get the chance to give     3     (perform) in pubs or clubs. Later they may     4     (gradual) become popular. However, the Monkees started in a different way. Only one of     5     (they) was good enough and the other three members pretended to sing. To be honest, it couldn’t be called a real band at the     6     (begin). Anyhow, their shows were     7     (humor) and they became popular. After a year or so, they worked even     8     (hard) and produced their own records and started touring. The Monkees broke up in about 1970     9     they reunited in the mid-1980s and     10     (produce) a new record in 1996 to celebrate their former happy time.

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

With time going by, he began making films. His    5    (charm)character made the audience laugh at a time     6    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    8    . Because of 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.

7 . A painting of a famous artist could cost several million dollars in the market. This is why many artworks — even those that are housed inside highly guarded museums — go missing. Here is a list of some of the most famous paintings that were lost, stolen or destroyed.

Vincent Van Gogh’s Poppy Flowers

This artwork was housed at the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo. It was first lost in 1977, but was recovered 10 years after. The second time this same Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen was in August of 2010. The painting is estimated(估价) to be worth something between $50 and $55 million.

Pablo Picasso’s Le Pigeon Aux Petits

Stolen on May 20,2010, this painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is worth $28 million. It was stolen at the Museed’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, along with five other artworks. However, the thieves threw the painting away in a trashcan when they were caught. But that container was emptied before the authorities got there. It was feared that the painting was already destroyed.

Paul Cezanne’s View of Auvers Sur Oise

Lost on December 31,1990, this artwork that used to be on exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was stolen the night before the city’s Millennium celebration. The thieves planned the robbery in time with the fireworks exhibition during peak of the celebrations. This artwork is estimated to be worth $5 million.

Covert Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk

Stolen on March 18,1990, this artwork was at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston. This painting by Covert Flinck was previously believed to be a Rembrandt creation. A huge cash reward of $5 million will be given to the person who can provide information leading to the recovery of the painting.

1. In which of the following cities was Le Pigeon Aux Petits stolen？

A．Cairo.

B．Paris.

C．Oxford.

D．Boston.

2. Who was mistakenly thought to create Landscape with an Obelisk？

A．Pablo Picasso.

B．Paul Cezanne.

C．Covert Flinck.

D．Rembrandt.

3. What can we infer about the four artworks mentioned in the text？

A．They are given an approximate price.

B．They are stolen when on exhibition.

C．Some of them are lost nearly 30 years.

D．Some of them have been found so far.

8 . Perhaps Vincent van Gogh (1853—1890) isn't the most famous artist in the world, but his story is certainly the best­known. It is such a sad story. Here was a man who failed, or who didn't care to succeed, at every practical thing in life, but succeeded at one thing that was not very practical at all.

This year marks the 125th anniversary of his death. An art exhibition, in which projections of more than 3000 photos of the artist's masterpieces are shown, is in Beijing until Dec. 6.

However, the paintings that made him famous after his death did little for him when he was alive.

Van Gogh was born to quite a rich family in The Netherlands. His first work was for an art dealer. That work wasn't enjoyable for him, so next he tried teaching in England. Always a religious man, Vincent wanted to be a priest (牧师), but failed the exams. He eventually found religious work as a missionary (传教士)．

Van Gogh found something else to believe in when he lived in a small mining town in Belgium­art. There,   he returned to his childhood love of painting and drawing.

One thing that people, even people who don't find art memorable, remember about Van Gogh's paintings is the way he used colors.

The paintings he painted in Arles in the south of France after he moved there—thousands of them—came from changes in French art in the period after 1850. The Impressionists wanted to show the world as it felt to them, not always as it looked. They developed new ways of painting to do this.

Van Gogh was the most important artist of a generation   that built on what the Impressionists did. You can feel the way other viewers feel at the sight of his wheat   fields, town scenes and portraits because of the way he used color. In Wheatfield with Crows (1890) the colors are natural. Corn is yellow, grass is green, and crows are black. But they are used in such a way that when we look at the painting, the last thing we see is a photograph.

His life had a sad, early ending. He had mental problems, which led him to cut off his ear and eventually die by shooting himself. Arguably, it wasn't the art that gave him mental problems. That’s a cliché (陈词滥调). What made him so sad may have been the difficulty of working as an artist in a practical world.

1. Which of the following is TRUE about Van Gogh?

A．He was born to a rich family in The Netherlands 125 years ago.

B．He was a teacher, a priest and a miner before he became an artist.

C．His paintings didn't bring him much wealth or fame when he was alive.

D．He decided to be an artist when he discovered his love of painting at a young age.

2. What is special about Van Gogh's paintings?

A．The way he used colors.

B．They are as real as photographs.

C．Most of them have a nature theme.

D．They look completely different from Impressionist works.

3. According to the author, what might have caused Van Gogh's mental problems?

A．The art of painting.	B．The loss of one ear.
C．Pressure from his family.	D．Not being accepted or recognized.

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。

As Victor Hugo once said, "Laughter is the sun    1    drives winter from the human face.'' Till now nobody has been able to do this    2    (well）than Charlie Chaplin. Take The Gold Rush for example. The film is set in California in the middle of the    3    (nineteen） century. Chaplin and his friend have rushed there and expected to find gold,     4    they have not been fortunate enough to find any. What's worse, they are caught in a snowstorm in a small wooden house with nothing to eat. They are very hungry and finally    5    they had to do is to boil a pair of leather shoes for dinner. Surprisingly, Chaplin acts as if it were one of the best    6    (meal）he has ever had!

Charlie Chaplin was gifted in    7    (make）terrible situations funny and managed to show the courage and     8    (kind）that can be found in the most difficult situation. He is loved and remembered as     9    outstanding actor who not only amazes us by his wonderful performances but    10    (inspire）us with great confidence.

10 . A Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a SpaceX rocket for an about seven-day trip around the Moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.

Maezawa, 42, will have been the first moon traveller since the last US Apollo task in 1972. He paid a large amount of money for the trip. “Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon,” he said. “This is my lifelong dream.”

Maezawa is CEO of Japan's largest online fashion mall. He is the founder of ZOZO,a global company based in Japan where people can buy clothing online. His another hobby is collecting valuable works of modern art.

His love for art led him to decide to invite artists to come along. He said, “I would like to invite six to eight artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon. They will be asked to create something after they return to the earth. These masterpieces will inspire the people who have dreams.”

The first space tourist was Dennis Tito, an American businessman who in 2001 paid some 20 million dollars to fly on a Russian spaceship to the International Space Station.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described Maezawa as the bravest and best adventurer. “He stepped forward,” Musk added. “We are honored that he chose us.” Musk said he would not make known the price for the Moon trip, but said it would be “free for the artists”.

“This is dangerous, to be clear. This is no walk in the park,” Musk warned. “There is a chance something could go wrong.”

1. According to the text, Yusaku Maezawa__________.

A．will be the first space tourist in the world.

B．owns the world's largest online fashion mall.

C．has dreamed of travelling to the moon since childhood.

D．plans to spend seven days walking on the moon.

2. What made Maezawa decide to invite some artists to come along?

A．His strong love for art.	B．his dream of becoming an artist.
C．His hobby of collecting rocket models.	D．his idea of making a meaningful journey.

3. What will the artists be expected to do according to the text?

A．Create unusual art works after the journey.	B．Pay for their own journey.
C．Explore their imagination in space.	D．Inspire people to become dreamers.

4. What Musk said in the last paragraph means__________.

A．tourists might go in a wrong direction.	B．tourists might lose their lives.
C．tourists are sure of their safety.	D．tourists have a chance to live in space.