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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。

Known for his playful style of watercolor works, Qi Baishi is a well-known Chinese painter. His works usually focus    1     birds and flowers and are admired and praised by many worldwide.

Qi Baishi was born to    2    peasant family in Xiangtan, China. During his early teenage years, he taught     3    (he) how to paint while working as a carpenter. Through his own efforts, he    4    (be) able to master the skills of painting, calligraphy, and even poetry at the age of 27. Some of his major influences include the early Qing Dynasty painter Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) and the Ming Dynasty artist Xu Wei.

His artworks mostly belong to the gongbi mode(风格), a style     5    features “fine brushwork and great detail”. Through his paintings, he puts into focus the small things of the world rather than large landscapes. The fishes, shrimps, crabs, and frogs were said to be his favorite     6    (subject).

He was most     7    (experience) in simple, freely sketched compositions, but he could also    8    (successful) perform a meticulous(细节的)style.    9    (use) heavy ink, bright colors and vigorous strokes, he created works in a fresh and lively manner which expressed his love of nature and life. In 1955, he     10    (honour) with the International Peace Award.

2 . The beauty of a single pheasant’s feather (野鸡羽毛) caught Nick Orr’s eye — and inspired him to produce something unique.

The art of the miniaturist (微型画画家) invites us to look at the familiar in a new way by reimagining it on a different scale.

This extraordinary inversion of the beauty of birds in flight expressed microscopically (微观地) through sculpting a sole flight feather came about by chance. Orr explains: “One day my daughter asked for some pheasant’s feathers. It made me look at them and see how beautiful they were and I thought what a waste not to create something with them.”

Having had his 10% of inspiration, Orr now had to go through 90% of perspiration (汗水) to find a way to work with feathers. Orr said “I played around with various ideas and nothing really worked, and I was holding a bunch and started cutting them to shape and to my surprise they didn’t fall apart.”

“It is as difficult to design the feather as it is to cut it out. The feather is my canvas and it is such a small canvas to work on-less than 3cm — and a very particular shape. Everything I depict must fit into that.”

“I see birds so differently now. Now I see the feathers first and then see the bird. I will think about how I can recreate it on a feather.”

Each individual feather is treated differently, with the feather itself playing a major part in the design of the eventual image.” Once I have an idea for a picture, I will start to sketch an overall outline on paper, at the same time as thinking about how it will fit a particular feather. I love the idea that I take a feather from a bird that most people think of as the ugliest on the planet and tun it into something beautiful.”

And that’s at the heart of Orr’s work — to make us see what we normally miss.

1. How did Orr begin to work on his feather art works?

A．His whole family attempted to perfect a feather.

B．His daughter was crazy about the beautiful feathers.

C．He accidentally discovered the beauty of the feathers.

D．He always thought these feathers perfect medium.

2. What does Orr think of the work with feathers?

A．He believes inspiration and perspiration are of the same importance.

B．He thinks it of the same difficulty to design the feather as to shape it.

C．He finds it too difficult to cut a bunch of feather into different shapes.

D．He imagines the familiar single feather in the same way as people do.

3. Which of the following can best describe Orr?

A．Imaginative & persistent.	B．Generous & skilled.
C．Talented & caring.	D．Curious & hardworking.

4. What’s the heart of Orr’s work?

A．He can see what we normally miss on the planet.

B．He can see the feathers first and then see the bird.

C．He can turn the ugliest bird into something beautiful.

D．He can turn different feathers into different art works.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When was Lou Ottens born?

A．In 1927.

B．In 1960.

C．In 1964.

2. What was the problem of the old tapes?

A．They were not large enough.

B．They were heavy and expensive.

C．They produced low-quality sound.

3. Where did Lou Ottens become the head of new product development?

A．In Hasselt, Belgium.

B．In Duizel, Netherlands.

C．In Philips headquarters.

4. How did Lou Ottens make the cassette tape a worldwide standard?

A．He sold it at a very low price.

B．He advertised his product very well.

C．He advocated licensing the format for free.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker doing?

A．Recommending a TV show.

B．Introducing a song.

C．Presenting a star.

2. How is the speaker feeling about tonight’s show?

A．Excited.

B．Surprised.

C．Confused.

3. What role is the special guest most famous as?

A．A songwriter.

B．An author.

C．An actress.

4. How many children are helped by the Imagination Library programme?

A．1 million.

B．1.9 million.

C．9 million.