Unit 3 The art of painting Grammar and usage学知测评练习-2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第一册

Unit 3 The art of painting Part II 学知测评 I. 单句语法填空 1. At the beach the children were playing ____ the shade of a large beach umbrella. 2. After supper the young mother _________ (bathe) the children and put them to bed. 3. Communists and patriots held in these concentration camps _________ (wage) an intense and complicated struggle. 4. _______ new campaign is aimed at discouraging children from playing too much computer games. 5. The ________ (architecture) had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex. 6. I'm not ________ (satisfy) with his interpretation of this sentence. 7. Tom never works hard at his lessons, so it's not ________ (surprise) to see a disappointed look on his face after the exam. 8. The music played by the little girl at the concert sounds _______ so (excite). II. 用方框中所给短语的正确形式完成句子be interested in; rather than; pick up; have access to; nothing but 1. We have ______________ praise for the way they handled the investigation. 2. We all want to be noticed, and to have someone to___________ listening to us. 3. I still find it convenient to have a home phone ____________ providing a mobile phone for every family member. 4. There is an urgent need for people in developing countries to __________ clean water to improve their health. 5. On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to ___ some groceries. III.完成句子 1. 众所周知,早睡早起是个好习惯。 As we all know, _________________ and getting up early is a good habit. 2. 当我们开始了解新朋友时,我们会惊奇地发现自己有多么喜欢他们。 ________________ to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them. 3. 农场一里无际,真是今人吃惊。 The farms covered a very large area,________________ . 4. 八岁时,我对诗歌声生了必趣,并开始自己写诗。 At the age of eight, I ________________ and started writing it myself. 5. 人们如今被食物上那些五花八门的标签搞得稀里糊涂。 People _______________ all the different labels on food these days. 6. 我大累了,几乎想停下跑步,但是同学的欢呼声带动着我继续跑。。 I was ____________ that l wanted to stop running, but I was carried along by the cheers of my classmate. 7. 人们一致认为,军乐声总是今人振奋的。 It is agreed that the sound of martial music is ___________ . 8. 我没接受这个工作,因为工资少,除此之外,非常乏味。 I didn't accept the job because it was badly paid and aside from that, it was ______. IV. 阅读理解 When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself, “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me”. No one could have had a more active old age. She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses,the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927. Grandma Moses painted a little an a child and made embroidery(刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only change to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff (僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time, let pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York, Between the 1930's and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of colour and form. “I think really hard till l think of something really pretty, and then I paint it.”she said. 1. What did Grandma Moses spend most of her life doing? A. Embroidering. B.Farming. C. Nursing. D. Painting. 2. What does the underlined word “portrayals” in the last paragraph mean? A. Directions. B. Stages. C. Surveys. D. Descriptions. 3. What can we learn about Moses? A. She stopped painting in her late seventies. B. She still led an active life when she was old. C. Her marriage life was not happy. D. She painted oils as a child. 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A. Grandma Moses: The Best Woman Painter B. Grandma Moses and Her Farm Life C. Grandma Moses and Her Exhibition D. Grandma Moses: A Famous Woman Painter of 20th Century V.七选五 Art galleries are places in which artists can display all types of works of art, including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures,etc. 1.______________ At the same time, however , each artwork must be protected from exposure to too much light since that can cause works to fade and therefore get ruined. 2._____________ . The most common form of lighting used to light up artwork is indoor spotlights on tracks attached to the ceiling near where the work is being displayed. 3.__________ It permits the lights to be moved more easily when the light patterns require adjusting. Recessed(嵌入的)lights in walls and ceilings can be useful so long as they are not fixed in place but can instead be easily moved to create ideal light patterns. Most art gallery directors state that a combination of tracked and recessed light equipment is ideal because the tracked lights focus directly on the artwork while the recessed lights are used on the nearby walls to provide a surrounding light source. 4.____________. How to angle the lights depends upon the height of the ceiling and the size of the artwork. Caution must be taken to avoid creating too many areas with shadows or to have the lights cause a glare on the artwork. Besides, the lights should not be bare bulbs burning directly on the artwork but should be made in some way to make the lighting softer. According to experts, low voltage(电压) bulbs are the best to use when lighting artwork. 5.___________Thus artwork should be placed in a room where sunlight can't directly hit it. A, It can make the displays attractive. B. Using tracked lighting is beneficial. C. Light plays a key role in art galleries. D. This light source can better improve the mood surrounding the work. E. To better improve their appearance, the display area needs to be well lit. F. Finding a happy medium between not enough light and too much of it requires considerable skill and experience. G. Above all, natural light should be avoided since direct sunlight will damage artwork, particularly paintings, over time. 【参考答案】 I. 1.in 2.bathed 3.waged 4.A 5.architect 6.satisfied 7.surprising 8.exciting II. 1. nothing but 2. be interested in 3. rather thane 4. have access to 5. pick up III. 1. going to bed early 2.It is surprising 3.which was amazing 4. became interested in poetry 5. are confused about 6. so tired 7. always inspiring 8. very boring IV. BDBD V. EFBDG 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$