【南方新课堂 金牌学案】2016-2017学年高中英语选修六（人教版 课件+练习+单元测试）：Unit 1　Art

第一单元过关检测 (时间:90分钟　满分:120分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共12小题;每小题2.5分,满分30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。 A (导学号51970007) In 1962,the head of NASA had an unusual idea for documenting space exploration(探索).Why not ask artists to catch the excitement of space exploration through paintings and drawings?From that question,the NASAAP(美国航空艺术计划)was born.It tries to catch the excitement of space exploration through artworks. The artists of it are free to move into NASA equipment.For example,Franklin McMahon spent hours in a NASA medical exam room.He studied the equipment that doctors used to examine astronauts just after a flight.McMahon’s drawing Tilt shows doctors examining astronaut Ed White from the spaceship Gemini 4 on June 7,1965.The picture is extremely detailed and completely true.It provides as much information as a photograph. Some artworks are not so serious.Artist Clayton Pond provided Strange Encounters for the First Time.The picture shows the spaceship Enterprise and the U.S.S. Enterprise meeting in space.The U.S.S. Enterprise is the spaceship from the television show Star Trek.It is funny.And there is a guess that Enterprise was named because of the imaginary one. Another surprising artwork came from pop artist Andy Warhol.He produced Moonwalk 1 in 1987.It shows astronaut Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.However,the artist added a lot of bright colors to it.Neil Armstrong’s white spacesuit is now hot pink.Part of his head cover is a sunny yellow.And the moon is blue. Some artworks can produce strong sadness.Zigi Ben Haim’s Colombia Returning imagines the last moment of spaceship Colombia and its crew(全体人员).In 2003,Columbia came apart as it re-entered the earth’s atmosphere(大气层)at the end of a flight.All seven crew members were killed. The NASAAP is responsible for about three thousand works in all.Artists are given a small payment for each artwork,which proves their words that they are attracted not by money but the experience being able to visit NASA eq