1 . 阅读有关莫奈和印象派的文章。用方框中单词或短语的正确形式填空。

be fond of            emerge             influential             in particular purchase            realistic             subjective                 theme

Unlike the earlier Realists who painted in a     1     style, Impressionist painters focused more on their     2     feelings of things and instant impressions. When Impressionism     3     in France in the late 19th century, artists became more interested in everyday subject matter. They were also fascinated by modern objects. As one of the most     4     Impressionist painters, Claude Monet was impressed by the visual effects of the steam engine     5    , and he later produced twelve paintings of a train station in Paris. In 1883, Monet and his large family moved to Giverny, where he     6     a house and some land for his gardens. During his days at Giverny, Monet     7     painting his own gardens, with the water lilies, the pond, and the arched bridge. From this we can see that there were two clear     8     apparent in his work throughout his career: colours and reflections in water.

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据上下文内容从所给的A到G的选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，每个词只可选用一次。

A. reminded him of       B. made sense       C. give away       D. devoted all his life to E. work on                  F. believe in          G. turned his back on

Jack’s parents got very disappointed after their son quit school. However, Jack was stubborn (固执) and     1     his parents. From then on, he     2     composing pop music and finally became a successful composer. Jack felt grateful to his mentor (导师) and friends, so he planned to     3    what he earned. The charity work     4     what his parents had done for him. Looking back on the old days, he felt he owed (亏欠) his parents quite a lot. It was not until his success that his parents’ love and care     5    .

3 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box, Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. themes       B. allowed       C. suffering       D. recognised       E. founding       F. invitation G. reflected     H. strokes       I. coupled          J. talent               K. display

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was primarily known for his Chinese ink-and-wash painting of horses and birds. He was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that     1     a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also     2     as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with Chinese     3    -a show of his high proficiency (熟练) in an essential Western art technique. After the     4     of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he served as President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chairman of the Chinese Artists’ Association.

Xu Beihong showed his     5     at a very early age. He studied classic Chinese works and calligraphy with his father when he was six, and Chinese painting when he was nine. He travelled to Tokyo in 1917 to study arts. When he returned to China, he began to teach at Peking University’s School of Art at the     6     of Cai Yuanpei. Beginning in 1919, Xu studied overseas in Paris, where he studied oil painting and drawing. His travels around Western Europe     7     him to observe and imitate Western art techniques. He came back to China in 1927 and, from 1927 to 1929, he gained a number of posts at institutions in China.

In 1933, Xu Beihong organized an exhibition of modern Chinese paintings. DuringWorld War Ⅱ, Xu travelled to Southeast Asia, holding exhibitions in Singapore and India. All the proceeds (收入) from these exhibitions went to Chinese people who were     8     as a result of the war.

Xu Beihong enjoyed massive support from art collectors across Asia. Between 1939 and 1941, he held solo exhibitions in different places to help raise funds for the war relief effort in China.

Xu Beihong was a master of both Chinese ink and oil. Most of his works, however, were in the Chinese traditional style. In his efforts to create a new form of national art, he     9     Chinese brush and ink techniques with Western perspective and methods of composition. He integrated (整合) firm and bold brush     10     with the precise delineation (刻画) of form. As an art teacher, he advocated the subordination of technique to artistic conception and emphasized the importance of the artist’s experiences in life.

Xu Beihong died of a stroke in 1953. After his death, the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum was established at his house in Beijing.

4 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. inspired            B. detail          C. art          D. marker          E. sculptor        F. stared G. considerably     H. approach       I. worthy     J. gradually       K. widened

Tom Friedman

Those who believe that art is simply handicraft taken to the extreme might find confirmation upon a first glance at     1     and installation artist Tom Friedman’s work. He creates sculptures and drawings with obsessive attention to     2     and handiwork, and then combines them to make installations. His materials can be picked up at any supermarket: paper, wire, cardboard, foam, foil and     3     pens. Friedman is influenced by 1960s conceptual art and minimalism. The Fluxus movement is     4     of special mention here, as its humorous, art-conscious work    5     him for pieces such as 1000 Hours of Staring (1992-1997). an empty sheet of paper that — as the title suggests — the artist     6     at for 1000 hours. In his new collages and sculptures (see his 2008 Monsters and Stuff exhibition), Friedman has stayed true to his choice of materials and painstakingly elaborate production process, but the gulf between the banality of the material and the spectacular forms that emerge from it has    7     , for example in the sculpture Green Demon (2008). The field of reference is also     8     broader here, with Frankenstein and voodoo associations slotting in easily next to African sculpture, Miro and Picasso. However, the question remains as to whether the harmless material removes the horror aspect or whether the artist has drawn hidden horror out of the material. And thus the question of art as handicraft comes full circle. As soon as handicraft is supported by a conceptual    9     and — in the true spirit of the surrealist idea of the miraculous-mundane everyday material is transformed to something astounding, then you have     10     .

5 . 根据短文选择适当的单或短语填空，每空只填一个单词，必要时要作适当的形式变化。注意备选词中有多余的词汇。

took charge of       looked forward to            is concerned about        signed is acknowledged as       signaled             genius          extraordinary                  aware of        Editor                 Seeking          absorbed in     atmosphere        disaster     flexible       clapping

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. He     1     one of the greatest composers in the history of music. In February 1824, the famous German composer's ninth symphony was finally completed. As he proudly     2     his name at the bottom of the page, Beethoven tried to imagine how people would respond when they heard it for the first time. Before the performance, the backstage     3     at a very famous theatre in Vienna was tense. Beethoven was afraid that the performance would be a     4    . After all, what use is a conductor who could not hear his orchestra——even if he is a musical     5    ?

The audience did not hesitate to applaud(鼓) loudly as the    6     composer walked out onto the stage for the first time in 12 years. The theatre’s musical director, Michael joined him and together the two men     7     the orchestra. For more than an hour, Beethoven jumped about in front of the orchestra, waving his arms wildly in the air, and madly turning the pages of his score.

As the final, joyous note     8     the end of the symphony, the audience jumped to their feet,     9     and cheering. But Beethoven continued conducting, still     10     his performance. It was not until Caroline, one of the singers, took his arm and turned him to face the audience that the great man realized his symphony was a success.

6 . 选词填空

A. exactly       B. requires       C. forced       D. perfectly       E. comfort F. rush       G. released       H. as       I. relates       J. asked             K.including

When Michael Wong was young, he was sensitive and shy. It was a huge task for him to talk to a stranger or go downstairs to the shops. But he found     1     through playing the piano.

Recently, the Malaysian piano star    2     his latest album “Never Apart”. It’s made up of ten catchysongs    3     the title song with the same name. Never Apart tells the story of a couple who are    4     to separate for a while, but they still cherish the beautiful memories they had.

“Music sounds better when it    5    to true feelings” he says

Now, Michael has grown, up to be one of the most popular singers in Taiwan. His slow love songs including First Time and Fairytale are hits with heartbroken young people.

Over the years, he has become bolder and learnt to voice opinions in his music. Once, he was    6     to sing a song someone else wrote. But he didn’t like the song lyrics, so he argued they should be changed. “If I broke up with someone, I don’t think I would have reacted in the same way    7     the story in the song,” he said. “I want to tell people     8     how I will behave. And it works.” He says the song sounds better when he can sing it his own way.

Michael is often called the piano prince. He’s elegant when he plays and sings along. “When I play, inspirations    9     to me like continuous streams. It     10    no effort.” But he still works hard to make his songs appealing. “I’ll go over every tiny detail to make the song worth listening to.”

7 . Complete her entry using the correct form of the expressions below.

uneasy	reaction	a failure	dark and troubling
massive circle	inspire	powerful	let out

I think the three paintings we’ve just learnt about, The Starry Night. The Scream and The Empire of Light are all amazing artworks. I wondered about what     1     the painters to make such amazing works of art. 11

The Starry Night shows the night sky with     2     of white and yellow. I couldn’t believe that Van Gogh thought the painting was     3    . In the painting The Scream, the figure is     4     a loud scream. That made me     5    . What a     6     painting! Did Munch know that he had created such an unforgettable painting for so marry people? As for the third painting, The Empire of Light some find this painting to be     7    , but I found it to be rather calming.

I think different people may have different     8     to paintings, but all in all, I really like all three of these works.

8 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. lonely       B. convey       C. touches       D. inconvenience       E. widely       F. accompanying G. composition       H. captures       I. abandon       J. sensory       K. wearing

An Innovative Painter

Alan is a pioneering painter, working with oil paint on canvas in a traditional way. It is only in his use of paint that he differs from the usual practice of using brushes.

Although he does use a brush to draw the main lines of his     1    , he uses painting knives to apply the paint. Early on he found that paint laid on with painting knives gave him the particular body and texture (质地) he wanted to     2     his subjects. The knife is capable of an enormous variety of marks, from delicate     3     to fierce sweeping and slices of paint. The knife’s sharp edged marks create their own dynamic of light and shade. Alan possesses many painting knives of different sizes, but tends to favour three or four, which are now     4    thin with constant use. He is still discovering new possibilities with the knife, driven by the demands of a new subject. Although Alan’s paintings are made in the studio, they are all composed from drawings made outdoors. These drawings are the seed corn on which all his paintings are based. The marks that go down on paper make sure he     5    not just the actual scene but also the changing light, the direction of the wind and the     6     sounds and smells. For the painter, the whole     7     experience remains fixed within the drawing long after he has left the scene.

Throughout his life Alan has travelled     8    for particular places that fuel his creative imagination. He is an adventurous seeker, regardless of the     9     or difficulty of some of the locations. Long ago he decided to     10    the idea of working on large oil paintings out of doors because it involved canvases, oil paints and many other tools around. He now travels light, taking only sketchbooks, pens and a few watercolours with him. This gives him the freedom to draw anywhere and to catch the fleeting moment — the “here-and-now-ness” of the place.

9 . 根据句意，选择单词并以其适当形式填空。

Talking about Beijing Opera, we cannot forget to mention one of its greatest performers—Mei Lanfang. Born in Beijing in 1894, he was commonly     1     as a brilliant artist. He started to learn the art of Beijing Opera at the age of eight and made his on-stage debut at age eleven and by the age of 20, he had become a leading actor in Beijing Opera’s dan role. With the     2     of bringing Beijing Opera to the world, he began to travel abroad to give performances. He     3     great success after eight years of attempts. The     4    factors for his success was his unique style and his     5    from the traditions.

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Do note that there is one word more than you need.

A. untraditional        B. referred          C. awards        D. framed       AB. critic     AC. covers AD. gesture        BC. count        BD. tending        CD. genius       ABC. recognizing

Each year, the bright light of the Nobel Prize in literature falls across our cultural canvas and illuminates the work of a major writer.

While     1     of previous years have gone to writers of prose, poetry and drama, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, announced on Oct 13 that American singer Bob Dylan, 75, was this year’s winner. However, the prize wasn’t given for his 2004 self-penned autobiography, but “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

It is certainly a(n)     2     choice. According to Steve Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, arts awards have almost always exclusively had an inherent bias toward so-called “high culture”, a category     3     not to include people who got their start singing in coffeehouses.

With that said, the Swedish Academy’s selection can be seen as symbolic in its implication. By picking Dylan, the Academy has made a bold     4     to expand the definition of “literature”. It has, in effect, opened the doors to popular culture, often     5     to as “low culture”.

We live in a world where people who read comic books, watch television shows, listen to podcasts and pop music, are often also those who enjoy poetry and opera. And the Nobel, in     6     Dylan’s work as literature, acknowledges that artists create works of popular culture with just as much care, control, courage and     7     as Ernest Hemingway did sitting down at his typewriter.

Dylan experts can battle over whether or not the singer indeed writes poetry–he was given the prize for his lyrics and music.

If music and lyrics count as literature, as plays have done, could not other forms? Could we, someday, see a Nobel in literature go to US TV producer David Simon, Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, or even US singer Beyonce?

As Los Angeles Times pop music     8     Robert Hilburn said about Dylan’s work: “He’s a great cultural figure because of his words and his ideas.”

And for all the flash and bang of any performed art or filmed project, it’s the words that     9    , wrote Carolyn Kellogg of the Los Angeles Times.

American TV series Breaking Bad (2008-2013) didn’t exist without US actor Bryan Cranston’s brilliant performance–but he couldn’t have gotten there without the words on the page.

Dylan’s Nobel says that words don’t have to be bound within     10     to be literature. It’s possible the Swedish Academy will back off its radical choice. But for now, literature is all around us. Read it, listen to it or watch it.