广东省佛山市顺德区第一中学2023-2024学年高二上学期英语开学试卷

2023一2024学年顺德一中高二年级开学测验 英语试题 命题人：高二英语备课组 本试卷共70题，共8页，满分120分，考试用时90分钟 2023.09 注意事项： 1、答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在 答题卡的相应位置填涂考生号。 2、选择题作答时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答聚信息点涂黑。如需 改动，用橡皮擦千净后，再选涂其他答案。写在本试卷上无效。 3、非进择题作答时，必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签宇笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡指定区域内的 相应位置上：如需改动，先刻掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案：不准使用铅笔和涂改液。写在本试 卷上无效。 4、考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结来后将答题卡交回。 第一部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑。 A Maya Lin,designer and sculptor,has created somc of the most iconic works and snaces with the belief that art can address important issues.Her latcst projects are no different,from museu sculptures for Presidential centcrs. Lin,62,grew up in Ohio,the daughter of college professors who were Chinese immigrants.As a 21-year- old student at Yale University,she gained national famc when her entry won a design competition for the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,DC.Her winning design-two black granite walls carved with the names of US servicc members who died in the Vietnam War (1954-1975)or remain missing -is considered one of the most influcntial in modern architecture. Lin went on to design the 1989 Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery,Alabama,and dozens of other projects globally,all with social and environmental justice in mind.She told The Wall Street Journal she uses facts in her art.Shc said,"I am going to prusent you with what the story is,but I am not going to draw the conclusion for you."Currently underway is Lin's plan for the new Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.Lin said she wants it to be a celebration of Chinese American stories and contributions to the country. Lin is also designing a sculpture to honor former President Barack Obama's mother,who died in 1995,at the Obama Presidential Center in Illinois.When Obama awarded Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016,he called her work"physical acts of poetry,each reminding us that the most important element in art or architecture is human emotion." 1.What is Maya Lin'princi