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Unit 1质量评估试卷 [学生用书活页P1]
(满分120分,限时100分钟)
选择题部分
第一部分 阅读(共两节,满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
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If you are crazy about paintings,you shouldn't miss the following four famous masterpieces which have stood the test of time.
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait,an oil painting on wood produced in 1434,in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her,is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery,London.This painting is as visually interesting as it is famed.It is also an informative document on fifteenthcentury society,through Jan van Eyck's heavy use of symbolism—while husbands went out to engage in business,wives concerned themselves with domestic duties.
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night,oil on canvas(帆布),a moderately abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village,during his 12month stay at the mental hospital near SaintRémydeProvence,France between 1889 and 1890.When the Museum of Modern Art in New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941,it was not well known,but it has since become one of van Gogh's most famous works.
The Harvesters
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565.It depicts(描述)the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of August and September.Nicolaes Jonghelinck,a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp,commissioned this painting.The painting has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1919.
Guernica
Guernica,a large blackandwhite oil painting,was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter,Pablo Picasso in 1937.The title “Guernica” refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War.The painting depicts the horrors of war and as a result,has come to be an antiwar symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war.Today,the painting is ho