1 . “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes,” said US artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). And he is quite right. Now it seems that anybody can become an instant online celebrity.

Warhol is best noted for his paintings that represent celebrity faces and US consumer goods, like Coca-Cola bottles or Campbell’s soup cans. As a great influence on the twentieth century pop art movement, Andy Warhol rose to become a cornerstone in the contemporary art world, devoted to bringing his views on materialism, polities and economics to the art. Actually, the visual world Warhol created is directly connected to his background.

In the mid-1950s, the working class gathered a great deal of fortune. They wanted to achieve a higher status in society. “The consumer goods and Hollywood faces are a working-class-coded iconography (肖像) that is often misinterpreted as generally ‘American’.” Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol’s Working Class commented. Reproducing these themes in his work meant that people outside of the art world could immediately connect with Warhol’s pictures. Considered “a creature of transformation”, Warhol constantly explored with different forms of media to evoke resonance among people.

For example, in addition to being a painter, Warhol was, in the words of UK writer Peter Wollen: “A filmmaker, a writer, a photographer, a TV soap opera producer.” Warhol, in short, was what we might call a ‘Renaissance (文艺复兴) man’, even though he was a leader in pop or perhaps post-modern art.

In his later years, he founded Interview Magazine and wrote several books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. But UK artist Gillian Wearing said, “Warhol left his mark in many more ways than his actual work.” Warhol’s works are all about “America, money, fame and death”, UK writer Jon Savage remarked. “He summed up, defined and in many ways symbolized the world in which we now live.”

1. What’s Andy Warhol’s purpose of creating his paintings?

A．To highlight Renaissance style.	B．To combine art with materialism.
C．To attain fame and higher status.	D．To challenge traditional art forms.

2. What do Andy Warhol’s paintings focus on?

A．Popular drinks.	B．Average people.
C．Commercial products.	D．Living scenes of working class.

3. What kind of person is Andy Warhol according to the text?

A．Constructive and multi-talented.	B．Conservative and realistic.
C．Optimistic and encouraging.	D．Creative and critical.

4. In which column of the newspaper can we read the passage?

A．Health.

B．Sports.

C．Science.

D．People.

3 . 用所给词的适当形式填空

Charlie Chaplin, born in a poor family, showed an     1     (astonish) talent as a     2     (perform).     3     (unfortunate), his father died when he was young,     4    (leave) his family even     5     (badly) off. But he worked very hard. In his teens, he could act the fool doing ordinary everyday tasks. Later on, Charlie wrote,    6    direct) and produced a series of funny movies he starred in, which made people laugh at a time when they felt     7     (depress), so they could feel more content with their lives. His subtle acting made everything entertaining. The little tramp, who was a     8     (home) man with a moustache, was one of the most outstanding     9     (part) he had ever played. In 1972, he     10     (give) a special Oscar for his outstanding work in films.

4 . Frederick Phiri is the junk-art king of Zambia: at just 22, he started to earn an international reputation for being able to make complex and elegant sculptures from scrap (废弃的) metal found in his community.

Phiri’s father died when he was starting primary school. Then his mother abandoned him and he had to stay with his grandfather. His grandfather paid for his schooling through primary school but when he entered secondary school, he had to get various jobs to pay for his fees. Yet even in school, he was always drawing and making things in class.

After graduating, he did what he could to support himself by making animal sculptures from wires and sold them to tourists. His work was so popular that it caught the eye of Karen Beattie, director of Project Luangwa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and economic development in central Africa.

“I introduced him to a local welder (焊工),” Beattie told Newsweek.

In 2017, Phiri worked with welder Moses Mbewe during the rainy season, helping to make a complex set of doors for Project Luangwa. The piece sparked an idea in Beattie’s mind: “I handed him a bunch of scrap metal and said, ‘Make something with this.’ And he did. It was wonderful.”

Today, Phiri continues his art, using pieces of junk people bring him—keys, broken bike chains, old metal plugs and whatever scrap metal is lying around. He then turns the junk into abstract animals—elephants, cranes, giraffes, chameleons—and sells them at Project Luangwa headquarters. The community has recognized his talents.

“My dream is to earn enough to study art at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka and be able to make a living from it,” Phiri said “and then to make very large sculptures.”

1. What is Phiri known for?

A．Serving his community.	B．Collecting works of art.
C．Being the king of Zambia.	D．Turning trash into treasure.

2. What can we learn about Phiri from paragraph 2?

A．He had an unhappy childhood.	B．He paid for his primary school.
C．He had to support his grandfather.	D．He missed school to do part-time jobs.

3. How does Phiri feel about his future?

A．Uncertain.	B．Confident.
C．Depressed.	D．Satisfied.

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．A Successful Path of Art.	B．The Junk-art King of Zambia.
C．A Young Man’s Wildest Dream.	D．The Modern Junk Works of Art.