(练习)6 微阶段刷题过关卷(二)-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册(人教版2019)

微阶段刷题过关卷(二) (时间：70分钟，分值：85分) UNIT 1　ART Using Language (2), Assessing Your Progress & Video Time 第Ⅰ卷(满分25分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共4小题；每小题2.5分，满分10分) Paper cutting is a very special visual art of Chinese handicrafts. One saying is that it originated from the religious ceremony or offering sacrifices (供品). The ancient people cut paper into animals or people. They either buried them with the dead or burned them on the funerals, wishing that things that paper stands for could be with the dead. Later, they were used during festivals to decorate gates and windows. After hundreds of years' development, now they have become a very popular means of decoration among country folks, especially women. It is easy to learn about cutting a piece of paper but very difficult to master it with perfection. Beginners need only a knife and paper. For craftsmen, they need knives and gravers of various types to make complicated (复杂的) patterns. It can be one piece of paper or many pieces. Simple patterns can be cut with a knife. For complicated patterns, people first pasted the pattern on the paper and then used various kinds of knives to make it. No mistake can be made during the process otherwise the work would fail. Paper cutting covers nearly all topics, from flowers, birds, animals, legendary people, figures in classic novels, to types of facial make­up in Peking Opera. Paper cutting has various styles in different parts of China. In the past, women living in the countryside gathered in their free time to make paper cutting, which is a way to judge their skillfulness. As society develops, fewer and fewer people learn this skill while there are some who still regard it as a profession. At present, there are factories and associations for paper cutting in China. Exhibitions and exchanges are held regularly and books of this kind are published. Paper cutting has changed from decoration to a kind of art. At the same time, paper cutting also appears in cartoons, on stage, in magazines or in TV series.