广东湛江市2025-2026学年高三下学期开学英语试题

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英 语

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This year, American art lovers can look forward to a diverse lineup of exhibitions, from French Impressionism to German Romanticism and beyond.

What Stands behind the Flowers

11 May-27 September at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY

Hilma af Klint once wrote, “I have shown that there is a connection between the plant world and the world of the soul.” An upcoming MoMA exhibition focuses on a newly discovered series of plant based art by the pioneering abstract artist.

The Soul of Nature

8 February-11 May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY

Friedrich’s work explored the relationship between the natural world and the inner self. His landscapes inspired generations of artists and helped shape how we perceive nature today. The Soul of Nature is heading to New York City after touring museums in Germany last year.

The Roulin Family Portraits

31 January-4 May at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA

When Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles, France, he made friends with his neighbor Joseph Roulin, along with his wife and three children. Van Gogh went on to paint several portraits of the Roulin family. This exhibition

showcases about twenty of them, demonstrating his innovative approach to portrait painting.

Impressionism at the Table

30 March-7 September at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN

France has long been famous for both its food and its art. This exhibition explores the relationship between the two. Visit Nashville to see how leading French artists of the Impressionist era brought food subjects to life.

1. What do the first two exhibitions have in common?

A They feature abstract paintings. B. They shape people’s world view.

C. They present landscapes in Germany. D. They explore the theme of nature.

2. Which of the four exhibitions begins the earliest?

A. The Roulin Family Portraits. B. The Soul of Nature.

C. What Stands behind the Flowers. D. Impressionism at the Table.

3. What is Impressionism at the Table about?

A. Life of leading artists. B. The link between food and art.

C. The history behind Nashville. D. Figures of the Impressionist era.

B

On October 1, the world said goodbye to Jane Goodall, a British chimpanzee (黑猩猩) expert who died at the age of 91. Goodall studied chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve — now a national park — in Tanzania in 1960. She had not been trained as a scientist, but many believe that this was one of her greatest strengths because it meant she was not influenced by everyone else’s thoughts about chimps.

Chimpanzees are humans’ closest living relatives, and Goodall’s research showed their social behaviour to be complex and highly developed. Goodall discovered that chimpanzees not only used tools but also made them. She observed chimps “fishing” for tasty insect snacks by sticking a long piece of grass into the nest. When the straw became bent at the end, the animal broke it off to keep the tool useful. Goodall also gave the chimps names and noticed that the animals had strong family bonds and emotions. “It isn’t only human beings who have personality, who are capable of logical thought and emotions like joy and sorrow,” she said in a 1996 PBS documentary. She also discovered that wild chimps hunt and kill for meat.

In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, which manages the Gombe Stream Research Centre and has become a global organization for animals, people and the environment. One of its projects is the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of the Congo, which helps chimps that have been hurt or have

lost their parents.

Professor Cat Hobaiter, a chimp expert from the University of St Andrews, told the BBC, “Jane would be the first person to tell us that what the world needs right now is not sadness over her loss, but to get to work.”

4. What was Goodall’s advantage in studying chimps?

A. She learned from experts.

B. She received systematic training.

C. She had independent views on chimps.

D She analyzed others’ thoughts about chimps.

5. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A. Chimpanzees’ ability to make tools.

B. Goodall’s findings about chimpanzees.

C. Chimpanzees’ bonds with family members.

D. Goodall’s comments on chimpanzees’ behavior.

6. What does Cat Hobaiter suggest?

A. Working in the wild.

B. Continuing Goodall’s mission.

C. Finding out the world’s needs.

D. Expressing sadness over Goodall’s loss.

7. Which of the following can best describe Jane Goodall?

A. Pioneering and devoted. B. Polite and talented.

C. Humorous and generous. D. Modest and cautious.

C

Named after American doctor George Huntington, who first described it 150 years ago, Huntington’s disease (HD) affects around 41,000 people in the U. S. alone, with over 200,000 more at risk. It is caused by a faulty Huntington gene, which makes a toxic protein that slowly damages the brain. For decades, Huntington’s disease has been a silent thief — robbing people of their ability to move, think, and connect with others, with no cure in sight. But a breakthrough from a Dutch team and the company uniQure is changing that story, offering the first therapy that can slow the disease’s cruel progression.

Now, the gene therapy AMT-130 is turning hope into reality. In a 3-year study,29 patients received a single