(练习)unit6 微阶段刷题过关卷(十一)-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册(外研版2019)

微阶段刷题过关卷（十一） (时间：65分钟　分值：70分) Unit 6　Starting out, Understanding ideas & Using language 第Ⅰ卷(满分32.5分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A Along with the standard pigments (颜料) and paintbrushes, an artist requires an unconventional piece of equipment for his particular brand of mural (壁画) making: a paddleboard. The Hawaiian muralist, balanced on the top of the floating platform, describes women from various sites across the world, whose homelands are often threatened by the effects of global warming. For his most recent project, titled “What If You Fly”， he travelled to Baffin Island, off the coast of Nunavut, Canada, to paint a portrait of local Inuit woman Jesse Mike, who lives there with her daughter. In a short film telling of the artist's process, Mike explains her frustrating previous experiences working with filmmakers who reported on the terrible circumstances troubling her endangered landscape. “For most people, it's about the polar bears, it's not about the people，” she said. “Well, let's make it about the people.” The artist and his team spent 14 hours searching for the perfect iceberg canvas (油画布), knowing all the while that the ice itself, and any image created on the top of it, would soon melt away into nothing. “It's a little ambitious to do this larger­than­life ice mural in the Arctic, and somehow, at the same time, make a connection to the human culture，” climber and filmmaker said of the project. When the artist found his proper ice, he painted a portrait of Jesse he took earlier on his camera. Working against the power of time and Mother Nature, the artist aimed to finish as much of Jesse's portrait as he could before the iceberg disappeared. The massive image, his most remote and technically challenging piece yet, communicates a memorable reality — the consequences of climate change, first and foremost, affect people. 1. What is “What If You Fly”？ A. A film about the muralist. B. A woman called Jesse Mike. C. A painting based on a local Inuit. D.