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2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编
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2023年上海市宝山区中考二模英语试题
VII. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成 短文)(12分)
You come home and put on some music. What do you hear?
Instruments and musical notes! You go to a museum to look at paintings.
What do you see? Colorful artworks! People 65 music and paintings to be beautiful, colorful, and inspiring(启发灵感的). Nobody thinks of silence and emptiness as artistic works. 66 , American musician John Cage thought differently. One of his most famous pieces is 433". In 1952, it was completed and performed by a pianist at a concert hall. However, he didn't play a single note. He just sat for four minutes and thirty-three seconds! But was it a. 67 piece? Interestingly enough, it wasn't! During the performance, there were a lot of sounds coming from the audience. People talked, coughed, and moved in their seats. Through 4'33", John Cage showed that any sound could become music.
Where did he get the idea for this? It was from his artist friend Robert Rauschenberg. In 1951, Rauschenberg created White Paintings, a series of canvases (帆布)painted in white. They seem empty at first, but. 68 show many images: the shadows(影子) of the viewers, the lights, and tiny spots on the canvases. Every act of looking at the paintings, various lights, and tiny spots become the painting! 69 , viewers become part of the creative work.
These artists 70 the way people thought about art. They said, “Everything we do can be music. With white, you can sec more. "It's exciting to think about the next form of art that will make us surprised. Who knows? Maybe you could be the next musician or artist to do just that!
65. A)encourage B)force C) expect D)allow
66. A)Besides B) Therefore C) What's more D) However
67. A)short B) cheerful C) silent D)special
68. A)especially B)actually C) carefully D) hardly
69. A)In addition B) By the way C) For example D) In this way
70. A)challenged B)welcomed C) prevented D) showed
2022年上海市宝山区中考二模英语试