精品解析：广东省江门市江门市第一中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

江门一中2022-2023学年度高二级第一学期期末考试 英语科试卷 Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共12小题;每小题2.5分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A American illustration changed dramatically. Pictures that Norman Rockwell created with oil paint on canvas (油画布) were gradually superseded by “photo illustrations.” Today, illustrators are able to make pictures with computers to put in magazines that arrive on the Internet. Digital images and electronic art are more and more popular. But the heart of illustration will always be its creativity, not its tools. Just ask award-winning artist Gary Kelley. He is no software engineer working in Silicon Valley; instead, he has enjoyed a long and successful career working from a town in Iowa. He still uses traditional media such as oil paint and pastels, but his ideas are new. Illustrators drawing for advertisements get paid the best, but that is not always the most fun. For Kelley, it’s the storytelling aspects of art that make illustration fun and interesting. He started by illustrating stories for magazines such as Time, The New Yorker, and so on. With fewer magazine stories to illustrate, he started to create a series of murals (壁画) for the national bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. He also illustrated a number of books. More recently he has illustrated novels. But perhaps the most interesting innovation was Kelley’s attempt to illustrate music. Kelley recalled that he was listening to The Planets, an orchestral suite by a famous English composer, when images began to appear in his mind. He decided to see if he could create pictures that showed the qualities of the music. He said, “I’m going to see what happens.” He associated a series of beautiful pictures to be projected on a huge screen above an orchestra while it performed. He found a willing partner in the WCF Symphony Orchestra in the creation of the illustrated music. Their work was well received, which motivated Kelley to create more. The Planets was followed by Antonin Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Gustav Mahler’