Unit 3 The art of painting Reading 能力提升练习 -2024-2025学年译林版（2020）高中英语选择性必修第一册

Unit 3 The art of painting Part I 能力提升练习 1、 一词多义。将合适的词语意思对应的选项填在横线上。 wander A.闲逛，漫步 B.走神，开小差 1. I like wandering around the park in autumn, observing the golden leaves falling and white cloud drifting. ________ 2. When my grandpa was in his seventies , his mind would wander, and he would lose track of what he was doing. ________ strike A.侵袭 B.击，打 C 突然想到 3. I didn't know how to deal with the situation, but an idea suddenly struck me that I could turn to my best friend for help. ________ 4. Mike struck the shark in the face , again and again until the shark released him. ________ 5. A great earthquake struck San Francisco on April 18th, 1906, leaving the city completely destroyed. ________ 二、单句填空。 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 1. The traditional Chinese ink drawing ________ ( vivid)shows how people lived their life in the past. 2. What really ________ (strike)me about London was that it was not only of special historic interest but modern. 3.________________ ( wander) along the riverside, I was deeply impressed by its beautiful landscape and gentle lifestyle. 4. The film was made in memory of the soldiers who were devoted to the ________ ( liberate) of our motherland.. 5. The scenery takes our breath away, and as far as I'm concerned, Jiuzhaigou Valley is worthy of ________ ( visit ). 6. Recently ,________ ( employ) has increased in both America and Britain, suggesting that technological developments have not led to widespread labour replacement. 7.In my opinion, kids need a range of good role models, as opposed________ pop stars or the Internet stars. 8. It is in the very gym _______ was built last year ________ I work out on a regular basis after work. 9. Peking opera is the ________ ( dominate)form of Chinese opera, combining music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. 10, Upon arrival , I visited the Pingtang International Experience Planetarium , which _________ ( display) China's remarkable achievements in science and space technology. 三、单句写作。 根据提示完成句子。 1.这幅画非常值得在美术馆展出。(worthy;display) The painting _____________________in the art gallery . 2.在那一刻,我突然意识到我是在浪费时间。(strike) At that point, ____________________ that I was wasting my time.. 3.我们应该鼓励学生表达自己的想法,而不是只听老师讲解。(opposed) We should encourage students to express their own ideas __________________ . 4.虽然他遭受着巨大的疼痛,他还是努力完成了比赛。(while引导让步状语从句) ______________________ , he still managed to finish the match. 5.正是她的友善和责任感让我钦佩她。(强调句型) _________________________ make me admire her. 四、语法填空。（建议用时: 6分钟） l visited the Musée d'Orsay, which is a world-famous art museum _________ (house)in an old railway building in Paris. _________(wander)through the Impressionist gallery, I appreciated masterpieces. Two of the greatest Impressionist painters who _________(make ) the deepest impression on me were Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Monet was _________( great ) inspired by nature. It's said that about 250 paintings by Monet including the famous piece Blue Water Lilies feature _________same water lily pond , but all are in different colours and styles. Renoir preferred to paint scenes of everyday life. I _________( strike) by the small areas of light across his 1876 masterpiece Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette Although the paintings had very different settings, _________ was the similarities of the paintings that impressed me deeply. Employing free brushwork and using colours to show the effect of light __________ things, they created paintings __________ were far less realistic than previous works. The Impressionists’ vision has inspired and influenced a lot of post-Impressionist __________ ( paint). Besides, it has had a lasting influence on modern art. 五、阅读理解。（建议用时: 8分钟） Walk around the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and you may see a green animal named Sluggo and a flying pig named Philomena. You might even see street artist David Zinn drawing them using only sidewalk chalk and charcoal(炭笔). At the age of 12 , David began working as an artist. His dad was writing a computer instruction and worried that it would be boring to read. So he asked David to draw pictures of turtles ( the name of the computer program ) to explain it. The publisher liked his drawings , and soon David had the job of drawing more turtles in action. " I learned a great lesson, which was that, to make money as an artist, I couldn't always draw what I wanted," he says. " I had to figure out how to draw a turtle drinking tea and other things like that. " David worked for 20 years as a commercial(商业的) artist, but he often felt cooped up( 禁锢) siting at a computer for 10 hours a day. Then , on a sunny afternoon about ten years ago , he brought some chalk and started drawing on the sidewalk. That's when Sluggo came to life." One of the reasons I like to put art on the street is to take people by surprise," he says. " I can have fun drawing, and knowing it will be washed away helps me not think too much. It frees me up." It takes David about two hours to complete one drawing. He uses a lot of sidewalk characteristics in his street art. It can be difficult to draw on surfaces that are not flat. He has to notice where shadows will land so they won't destroy the 3-D drawings he creates. Today , more and more people are accepting and looking for his work. David's artwork can also be found across the country and even throughout the world. Photos of his drawings have been shown at many universities and museums. 1. What did David learn from drawing turtles for his father? A. Work hard. B. Follow your heart. C. Draw what you like. D. Draw in a creative way. 2. How does David feel when knowing his drawing will be washed away? A. Relaxed. B. Worried. C. Unhappy. D. Surprised. 3. In what way is David's art special? A. It shows his real life. B. It is drawn on the flat sidewalk. C. It needs a very long time to finish a drawing. D. It is 3-D street art created by simple painting tools. 4. What do we know about David's drawings? A. They are becoming popular. B. They are too difficult to understand C. They are found mainly at museums. D. They are hardly accepted by adults. 六、七选五。（建议用时: 8分钟） Art has been described in popular culture as something only particularly educated or wealthy people can enjoy flower, this couldn't be further from the truth. 1.___________ Here are some tips that can help. Understand the historical context of the time when the art was produced. Artists often create works to comment on major historical events, and this can give us a window into their unique perspective(观点). For example, Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937) was created in response to the bombings during the Spanish Civil War. 2.______________ Besides, powerful organizations and people throughout history often hired artists to create pieces that supported their career. This affects the intended audience of the art piece-who was meant to see the art. Find out the genre(类型) of the painting. If you're looking at a painting, knowing what genre it belongs to can be helpful. Genres are basically categories. 3.__________ In painting, the established and well-known genres include landscape , portraiture , still life and so on. Learn about the art movements or schools that influenced the piece. Art movements were rises in popularity of certain ways of creating art. An art school is basically just a group of artists, sometime!all in the same region, who all have a similar style or subject matter. 4.__________ 5. __________ Learning a bit about artists who created a piece can help cast light on it in a variety5of ways. It can help you understand why they made certain artistic decisions or chose to make the work in the first place. A. It's filled with anti-war spirit. B. It is decided by what the painting is about. C. They are used to divide art into groups or types. D. Read up on the life and philosophies of the artists. E. Anyone who can draw well can understand the history of art. F. Anyone can come to appreciate art with a bit of time and effort. G. Knowing some about these can help you understand why an artist might have made certain choices. 【参考答案】 1、 一词多义 1. A 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.A 二、单句填空 1.vividly 2. struck 3.Wandering 4.liberation 5.being visited 6. employment 7.to 8.that, that 9.dominant 10.displays 三、单句写作。 1. is well worthy of being displayed 2. it struck me 3. as opposed to just listening to the teachers 4. While he suffered from great pain 5. It’s her friendliness and sense of responsibility that 四、语法填空。 1.housed 2.Wandering 3.made 4.greatly 5.the 6.was struck 7.it 8.on 9.that/which 10.painters 五、阅读理解： DADA 六、七选五： FACGD 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$