1 . Cayce Zavaglia is an artist with a unique transformation to her work.    1    Painting with tiny needles is not as fast as painting with a brush.    2    It takes two months-nearly 200 hours to complete a portrait.

    3    Once she decides, she invites that person to her studio and takes hundreds of photographs. She studies the way the light falls across the person's face. After many hours of studying the photos, she chooses the perfect one for her portrait. Next, she enlarges the photo on a canvas(画布). Then, she matches the colors in the photo and the stitching begins.

Cayce starts with the hair and forehead, then moves on to the shoulders and clothing, and finally the face. The human face is what she most enjoys creating in her art.    4    In a portrait of her baby daughter, the skin appears soft and smooth. In a portrait of her dad, the stitches show a wrinkled and aging face.

Cayce believes her success depends on three things: her choice of colors, the length and direction of the stitches, and her ability to make the portrait look true. She loves the surprise when people view her art. From a distance, people believe the portraits are painted.    5    

A．She makes sure the person looks straight into her.

B．The biggest challenge is making the skin look real.

C．Instead of painting with a brush,she sews with a needle.

D．Cayce's first step is deciding who will be in the portrait.

E．She loves creating portraits of her family and close friends.

F．It requires a lot of patience, for you often have to rethread your needle.

G．But when they take a closer look, they see the portrait has been embroidered.

2 . How can having a childlike view of the world help the environment? Danish eco-artist Thomas Dambo combines a talent for recycling with a fairy-tale imagination to bring people worldwide closer to nature.

For the “Guardians of the Seeds” exhibition, Danish eco-artist Thomas Dambo built five trolls from discarded wood materials, which were appointed by Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) for its splendid riverside woodland.

The exhibition composed of the five trolls aims to give visitors an emotional connection with nature that will encourage them to become keepers of it. For the exhibition, Thomas came up with a story that a family of trolls hid 10 golden seeds to protect the old forest. Using a map that's provided, visitors follow clues to find where the seeds are hidden.

Besides using carefully selected recycling materials to produce his works, to challenge himself creatively, the artist allowed for a degree of production on-site. He gave a skinny troll named Birk a beard made from the roots of fallen trees. The fur of another troll Roskva is made from bark. Also, Gro, sitting with her eyes closed in a yoga pose, has a tongue made out of a nearby deserted planter.

“Thomas wants people to interact with them,” says Gretchen, president of CMBG. “He wants it to be a journey of discovery where you're walking along and all of a sudden this big magical being appears in front of you. These are friendly, happy trolls. They're not scary, mean trolls.”

Thomas hopes that “Guardians of the Seeds” gives viewers the same joy he gets from an occupation that he compares to a hobby. He says too many people lose their playfulness in their adult life. The key quality of his work is just its playfulness. One of his trolls sits on a real car on a hillside, appearing to cheerfully ride it. He wants to reactivate a childlike imagination in adults so they begin to see trash as objects that can be repurposed in practical and even picturesque ways. And he loves to entertain kids, too.

Nowadays, Mr. Dambo gets a kick out of seeking waste everywhere, hoping to find more stuff he could refashion into something amazing.

1. What does the underlined word “discarded” mean in paragraph 2?

A．Given-out.

B．Thrown-away.

C．High-priced.

D．Randomly-chosen.

2. What's the purpose of launching the exhibition?

A．To set off visitors' curiosity.	B．To get back the 10 golden seeds.
C．To promote the popularity of CMBG.	D．To boost the bond between visitors and nature.

3. What do the examples in paragraph 4 mainly demonstrate about Thomas?

A．His environmental awareness.	B．His creativity and artistic gift.
C．His working efficiency and skill.	D．His sense of social responsibility.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Thomas' Massive Troll Sculptures

B．Let Us Turn Trashed Wood into Elegant Art

C．Artist Preserves Imagination and Nature with Huge Trolls

D．Welcome to the Magic “Guardians of the Seeds” Exhibition

3 . There have been many great painters in the rich history of Chinese art. Here are four of the greatest painters from China.

Li Cheng (919-967, Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty)

Li Cheng contributed greatly to one of the golden ages of landscape paintings in world history. During his time, he was considered the best landscape painter ever. He is remembered especially for the winter landscapes he created and for simple compositions of tall, old evergreens set against a dry landscape. Several of his paintings are in thin ink which gives them a foggy appearance.

Fan Kuan (990-1020 , Song Dynasty)

Fan Kuan began his career by modeling Li Cheng's work but later created his own style, claiming that the only true teacher was nature. His finest work Travelers among Mountains and Streams is a masterpiece of landscape painting and many future artists turned to it for inspiration.

Qi Baishi (1864-1957)

One of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters, Qi Baishi is known for not being influenced by Western styles like most painters of his time. He can be considered as the last great traditional painter of China. He painted almost everything from insects to landscapes. He is regarded highly in Chinese art for the freshness that he brought to the familiar types of birds and flowers, insects and grass.

Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)

Widely considered as the founder of modern Chinese painting , Wu Guanzhong has painted various aspects of China, like its architecture, plants, animals, people and landscapes. Wu went on to combine Western and Chinese styles to create a unique form of modern art. In 1992, he became the first living Chinese artist whose work was exhibited at the British Museum.

1. What do we know about Li Cheng?

A．He loved landscape paintings.

B．He copied many artists' work.

C．His work gained worldwide recognition.

D．He was considered as Fan Kuan's teacher.

2. What is the main feature of Qi Baishi's paintings?

A．They have foggy appearances.

B．They lack diversity in the theme.

C．They come under Western influence.

D．They show advanced traditional painting skills.

3. What did the four Chinese painters have in common?

A．They were all modern painters.

B．They all created landscape paintings.

C．They were all impacted by Western art.

D．They were all pioneers in traditional art history.

4 . Hungarian artist Zoltan Viczan has revealed his love and memories of his homeland in a series of new glass artworks at the exhibition, Layers of Hungary, which is taking place at Picnic Gallery in downtown Shanghai from Oct 13 to Nov 15.

Born in Hungary in 1979, Viczan began his studies in glass art at an early age in Budapest.     1    He is known for having developed his own style and techniques for glass engraving(雕刻).

Traditional glassmaking in the West originated in Italy, where the royal court forced master crafts people to live on an island and create fine goods, Viczan says.     2    Then they took the technique to other parts of Europe, such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Viczan came to Asia 10 years ago, spending four years in Japan and two years in Hong Kong before moving to Shanghai in 2016. Generally many expatriates socialized with people from their countries to overcome homesickness.     3    

In the exhibition, visitors will see a map of Hungary sculpted in cast glass and decorated with traditional Hungarian glass patterns, and works describing the city of Budapest and Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe.

    4    For example, he removed the protective and reflective layers of the mirror to create a window on the surface that reveals the layer underneath. He even placed multiple layers of these windows in front of each other, creating a 3D effect that changes when viewed from different angles.

    5     “We live in an infinitely complex world that we have no way to fully understand,” he says. “Through our experiences, we form a worldview that becomes our reality, which will be challenged when we are exposed to new ideas. These layers of realizations are the signs of our personal development.”

A．He has practiced the art form for nearly 30 years.

B．This is the first time he has presented his creations.

C．The works on show reflect Viczan’s unique methods.

D．Some managed to escape despite of the risks of death.

E．Viczan chose to represent memories of his homeland through his art.

F．The artist believes this is a good way to show idea about people’s viewpoints of reality.

G．It recalled the beauty of the calm, flat water which starts rippling after throwing a pebble in it.