1 . Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something that has not been _______ before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.

What _______ artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not _______. They seem to feel that a certain _______ of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth _______ to us. Without their work we should never have noticed the _______ shapes and colors, or have felt the _______ which they brought to the artists.

Most artists take shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in _______ and repose(静止); their _______ indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful ________. Contemporary artists might say that they ________ choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without ________ to the character of their subjects.

If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(坏疽性的)leg and anther a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a(n) ________ aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, ________ something-all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to ________ us.

3 . Laughter is so familiar to every one of us. There is an English saying that _________, “He who laughs last laughs the hardest.” High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

_________ a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and _________ because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron’s basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime(两个加时赛), with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it-- to the _________ team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history, as they say, is a thing of the _________. Now at 21, Efron is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People, graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood’s most _________ magazine, and is traveling the world _________ the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman _________ Efron as “ the biggest teen star in America right now.” Simply google “Zac Efron” and you get more than 14 million_________. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and __________ in California. He took school __________. According to Efron, “I would get crazy if I got a B and not an A in school.” It was his father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school __________ and acted in a local theater group. He also__________ singing lessons. He graduated from high school in 2006 and was __________ to the University of Southern California to study film. But he put it off--why study movies __________ you can star in them?

Now Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his __________ in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron __________ remembers those bullies(欺人者). “You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they __________.” Efron said. “Also, when you get made fun of, when people point you’re your __________, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.”

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now __________ all the way to the bank.

5 . The world's largest painting has been sold in Dubai for almost $62 million. British artist Sacha Jafri created the painting and ________ a Guinness World Record.

During the spread of COVID-19 last year, Mr. Jafri was in Dubai. Rather than feeling ________because he was unable to go out, the painter ________ to take on a big project that could "make a really big ________" . He planned to create the world's largest painting. He ________ children around the world to ________ their own pictures showing how they were feeling during that ________ time. He got artwork from kids in 140 different countries.

Using the children's ________ as a starting point, Mr. Jafri began to paint in a ________ ballroom at a fancy hotel. He________ included the children's drawings in the artwork. He ________ long hours —— often up to 20 hours a day. He hurt his back by ________ so much while he painted. It took over 1,000 ________ and 1,664 gallons of paint to create the painting. When he ________ seven months later, the painting, called "The Journey of Humanity", was roughly the ________ of four basketball courts.

Jafri had aimed to ________ $30 million for children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic when it went ________. As a result, Andre Abdoune, the artwork's new owner, ________ more than double that after he knew that the ________ would go to charity (慈善). He said that the energy and love Jafri ________ into the painting was so amazing.

7 . A little boy always thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made him lame. He ________ played with his classmates. When the teacher asked him to answer questions，he always ________ his head without a word.

One ________， the boy’s father asked for some saplings (树苗) from the neighbor. He wanted the ________ to plant a sapling each person in front of the house. The father said， “Whose sapling grows best， I will buy him or her a favorite ________.” Seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees，the boy had an idea. He hoped that the tree he planted would ________ soon. So，after watering it once or twice，he never ________it.

A few days later，when the little boy went to see his tree again，he was ________to find that it didn’t fade but grew some fresh leaves.________ the trees of his brothers and sisters，his tree was even greener. His father kept his________，bought the little boy his favorite gift and said that from the tree he planted，he would become an outstanding ________ when he grew up.

Since then, the little boy slowly became ________. One night， he lay on the bed but couldn’t fall asleep. Then he got up and came to the________. To his surprise，his________ was splashing(喷洒) something onto his tree. ________，he understood his father had been________fertilizing his small tree！ He returned to his room, ________ running down.

________ passed. The little boy didn’t become a botanist， but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

Love is the ________ nourishment (营养) of life.________ it is just a drop of clear water， it can still help the tree thrive (茁壮成长).

8 . Itzhak Perlman, the world famous violinist, got polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child. _______, you know that getting on stage is not easy for him.

On November 18, 1995, he came on stage to give a _______ at Lincoln Centre in New York City. That night Perlman walked _______ to his chair. Then he sat down and began to play. But suddenly, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it break with a loud _______.

People thought to themselves, “He would have to get up to either _______ another violin or another string for this one. But he didn’t. _______ he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra (管弦乐队) began, and he played from where he had _______. He such passion and such power. Of course, everyone knew that it was _______ to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night Itzhak Perlman _______ to know that. You could see him changing and recomposing the piece in his head.

When he finished, there was a ________ in the room. Then people rose and cheered. We were ________, doing everything we could to show how much we ________ what he had done. He smiled and then he said in a quiet tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to ________ how much music you can make with what you have left.”

His words have ________ in my mind ever since I heard them. That is also the way of life. Perhaps our ________ in this quickly changing world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

9 . Terje Isungset is a Norwegian composer and performer. Recently he has become a _______ in the world of music. While most musicians seek to _______ a cold reception at concerts, Terje Isungset is not _______ about a chilly feeling. He performs with instruments he makes himself out of _______.

A recent performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall _______ a set including ice horns, ice drums and ice chimes, _______ singer Maria Skranes.

He _______ his work as being about more than making music, since he also _______ to display the characteristic of being beautiful and fragile. “I consider it a part of _______ bigger. It’s not me and my project and my self-esteem—it’s the extreme weather, ” he says.

The Norwegian is ________ a background in traditional Scandinavian music and jazz. He’s the ________ of Ice Music Festival in Norway—so people have a chance to enjoy ice music—and plays at about 50 festivals and concerts a year, many in the ________ conditions of Norway, Canada or Russia. ________, at concerts in warmer climates, higher temperatures can ________ difficulties, as spending any more than 50 minutes at room ________ could damage the instruments.

All of the instruments for the London show were made in Norway and shipped over in special ________, highlighting the fact that, when it comes to ________ ice instruments, not any water will do. “If ice is from polluted water, it doesn’t ________ that good. If it’s from tap water it doesn’t work because there are some ________ in it,” he says. “The best ice is from the north of Sweden. I’m really ________ to that ice.”

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A．accompanying

B．performing

C．appreciating

D．introducing

10 . Yang Wenqing is the only teacher of this small school, more precisely a teaching center, _______ in Dengyunzhai Village, Luxi County, Hunan Province.

The tiny school was _______ built for this remote rural area with a small and scattered (分散的) _______. The school arranges different _______ from the neighboring areas into one single class. Situated in a mountainous region, the village is the home to many _______ children, as young and middle-aged parents have _______ into cities for jobs.

The 53-year-old teacher volunteered to come to Dengyunzhai a decade ago when Luxi County _______ its teaching center to make it _______ for the school-age children nearby to receive education.

“I _______ the second-grade students from the first -grade and kindergarten kids,” said Yang，adding that she splits her 40-minute class time between different graders. Besides Chinese and math, Yang is also ________ for at least two music and art classes a week. In order to better teach the students, she ________ training programs for music teachers organized by local authorities. “________ I am the only teacher here, children should learn nothing less,” she said.

At 4:00 p. m. every school day, Yang walks out of the classroom and ________ the school bell. Hearing the bell, the students ________ orderly to return home. After the students leave, Yang would carefully clean the ________ . She is always the last one to leave the school. “Education can change the ________ of these students. The better foundation I ________ for them, the brighter future they can have through further study," Yang said.

Yang’s work has ________. For years, the academic results of her students are among the best in the whole county. She has ________cultivated (培养) more than 100 children, who later went on to________ higher education.