考点规范练10(必修2 Module 4)
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Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.
Landscape(风景)is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Leslie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of colour photography(摄影术)to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.
Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.
1.The underlined word “poetry” most probably means .
A.an unusual quality
B.a collection of poems
C.an object for artistic creation
D.a natural scene
2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because .
A.they are close in style to works in ancient times
B.they look like works by 19th-century painters
C.they draw attention to common things in life
D.they depend heavily on colour photography
3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?
A.It will not be found in future works of art.
B.It does not have a long-lasting standard.
C.It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.
D.It is lacking in modern works of art.
4.What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
A.They express people’s curiosity about the past.
B.They make people interested in everyday experience.
C.They are considered important for variety in form.
D.They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.
B
The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help vindicate(澄清)hospitals that are accused of wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environment helps patients overcome discomfort and pain.
A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a selection of 300 works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.They were then asked to watch either the beautiful paintings,or the ugly paintings,or a blank panel while the team zapped(打击)a short laser pulse at their hand,creating a sensation as if they had been pricked(刺痛) by a pin.The subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings,compared with when considering the ugly paintings or the blank panel.
Electrodes measuring the brain’s electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings.While distractions(消遣),such as music,are known to reduce pain in hospital patients,Prof de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part.The findings,reported in New Scientist,also go a long way to show that beautiful surroundings could aid the healing process.
“Hospitals have been designed to be functional,but we think that their aesthetic(审美的)aspects should be taken into account too,”said the neurologist.“Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not.But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain worse.I think these results show that more research is needed into how a beautiful environment can ease suffering.”
Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticellis’ Birth of Venus.Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso,the Italian 20th century artist Anonio Bueno and Columbian Fernando Botero.“These people were not art experts,so some of the pictures they found ugly would be considered masterpieces by the art world,”said Prof de Tommaso.
5.According to the first paragraph,people didn’t approve .
A.hospitals treat their patients with works of art
B.hospitals spend money on medical equipment
C.hospitals decorate their rooms with works of art
D.hospitals make their environment pleasant to patients
6.How did the researchers make the research?
A.By asking the subjects to listen to music.
B.By requiring the subjects to draw paintings.
C.By aching the subjects’ hands while they are watching paintings.
D.By ordering the subjects to choose which picture is beautiful and ugly.
7.According to the research,when designing a hospital,we should consider its .
A.beautiful environment
B.functional operating room
C.convenient facilities
D.bright waiting room
8.The best title for the passage may be “ ”.
A.Ugly Patients Feel Less Pain
B.Beautiful Art Can Ease Pain
C.Arts Can Be Used As a Medicine
D.Patients Don’t Like Ugly Pictures
Ⅱ.七选五
Life free to soar(翱翔)
One windy spring day,I observed young people having fun flying their kites.The colourful creations of varied shapes and sizes filled the sky like beautiful birds dancing. 1 Instead of blowing off,they rose against it to achieve great heights.They shook and pulled,but the strings(线)and the tails kept them in tow,facing upward and against the wind.As the kites struggled and trembled against the strings,they seemed to say,“Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They soared beautifully as they fought the restrictions(限制)of the strings.
2 “Free at last,” it seemed to say.“Free to fly with the wind.” Yet freedom from restrictions simply put it at the mercy of the wind. 3 It lay powerless in the dirt,blew helplessly along the ground,and stayed lifeless against the first obstruction(障碍物).
4 The heaven gives us misfortunes,restrictions,and rules to follow,from which we can grow and gain strength.Restrictions are a necessary counterpart(相对应之物)to the winds of opposition. 5 Let us each rise to great heights,recognising that some restrictions that we may face are actually the steady force that helps us succeed and achieve.
A.Finally,one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose.
B.As the strong wind blew against the kites,a string kept them in check.
C.We should soar in the sky freely.
D.Some people are against the rules so hard that they never achieve their goals.
E.We are sometimes like kites.
F.The kites like to fly in the charge of the strings.
G.It fell to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds.
Ⅲ.语法填空
Alice Walker makes her living by writing,and her poems,short stories,and novels have won many prizes for her.She was born in Eatonton,Georgia.She went to public schools there,and then to Spellman College in Atlanta before coming to New York 1. (attend) Sarah Lawrence College,from 2. she graduated in 1966.For a time she lived in Jackson,Mississippi,with her lawyer husband and small daughter.About Langston Hughes:American Poet,her first book for children,she says,“After my first 3. (meet) with Langston,I promised I 4. (write) a book for children someday.Why?5.I,at 22,knew next to nothing of his work,and he didn’t scold me;he just gave me a pile of his books.And he was kind to me;I will always be 6.(thank) that in his warmth he filled my deepest dream.To 7. ,he is not dead at all.Hardly 8. day goes by that I don’t think of him or speak of him.9. ,just before he died,when he was sick with the flu,I took him a basket full of oranges.The joy I felt in giving that simple gift never 10. away with time.He said he liked oranges,too.”
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Ⅰ.【语篇导读】艺术是不断发展变化的,本文主要论述了艺术的基本问题。
1.A 词义猜测题。根据后文“where no one has ever seen or experienced it before”可知,poetry在此是指一种不同寻常的品质。
2.C 细节理解题。根据文章第二段中的“In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.”可知,Leslie油画的特殊之处在于它关注普通事物。
3.B 意图态度题。根据倒数第二段最后一句可知,作者对于artistic reality的观点是其没有一个长久的标准。
4.D 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段可知,艺术总是反映人们的生活条件。
【语篇导读】通过实验研究表明:美的艺术品同音乐一样有利于缓和病人的疼痛。
5.C 细节理解题。根据第一段的“hospitals that are accused of wasting money on art and decoration”可知答案。
6.C 细节理解题。根据第二段的最后两句可知答案。
7.A 细节理解题。根据第四段第一句的“Hospitals have been designed to be functional,but we think that their aesthetic (审美的)aspects should be taken into account too”可知答案。
8.B 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了美的艺术品有利于缓和病人的疼痛这一研究发现。
.1.B 2.A 3.G 4.E 5.D
.1.to attend 2.which 3.meeting 4.would write
5.Because 6.thankful 7.me 8.a 9.Once 10.dies