广东东莞市东华高级中学2025-2026学年第一学期开学学习反馈英语试题

2025-2026学年东莞市东华高级中学

第一学期学习反馈

英  语

 

 考试时间120分钟；满分120分

第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

A

Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting

Exhibition Highlights:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents“Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting”, a novel exhibition closing on June 16, 2025. It ranks among the most significant shows of the year, aiming to gain worldwide recognition for the long-standing connection between Chinese painting and poetry.

This exhibition features 90 influential artworks, representing different dynasties and styles. Paintings inspired by ancient texts like the Book of Odes(Shijing) are on display. For example, a Song-Dynasty landscape painting masterfully captures the tranquility described in a poem.

What to Expect:

Visitors can encounter representative works from both the Met's collection and loans from private collectors globally. The exhibition also showcases how literati painters, such as Dong Qichang from the Ming Dynasty, combined their paintings with self-composed poems.

Practical Information:

· Age Requirement: All ages are welcome. However, youth under 15 should be accompanied by an adult.

· Dates & Times: Open daily from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM (Fridays and Saturdays until 9:00 PM). Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

· Admission: The exhibition is free with regular museum admission. General admission for adults is $25; for seniors(65+), it's $17; and for students with valid ID, it's free. Children under 12 can enter for free as well.

Location:

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028

1. What is the exhibition's duration?

A. Until June 16, 2025     B. For three months..

C. Throughout the year.    D. From January to June 2025.

2. What can visitors expect to see in the exhibition?

A. Ancient texts like the Book of Odes.

B. Artworks combining painting and poetry.

C. Paintings borrowed from international museums.

D. A song-Dynasty landscape painting by Dong Qichang.

3. Which of the following is free of charge?

A. Audio guides for students.   B. Special tours for art lovers.

C. Museum admission for seniors.  D. Exhibition entry for children under 12.

B

A French sinologist(汉学家), wearing a customized tie with Chinese characters, gave a speech about a course on the Dongba script (文字) in the form of Massive Open OnlineCourses(MOOC).

The Dongba script, a pictographic(象形的) writing system of the Naxi ethnic minority group in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, is one of the few pictographic scripts still in use today. There are about 1,400 characters in total.

In 2003, the Dongba script was added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. With a population of about 300,000 people, only over 400 individuals among the Naxi ethnic group are still able to recognize and use the Dongba script.

China has made significant efforts to preserve the Dongba script. Launched in 2023, the course aims to guide learners to understand the Dongba script and contributes to its protection. It has attracted more than 2,000 students from 80 countries and regions in the first-round enrollment.

More efforts have been made to change the situation. In 2024, an intelligent translation system for the Dongba script was jointly developed and launched by a group of universities and local research institution. The system can help to recognize and translate the Dongba manuscripts in a simple way.

A professor at Nanjing Normal University said that the preservation of many ethnic minority languages and cultural heritage wasn't systematic in the past. However, with the use of digital methods, the new guideline now helps protect the languages and pass them on.

4. Which number best shows the urgent situation of the Dongba script?

A. 80.  B. 400.  C. 1,400. D. 300,000.

5. What is the purpose of the course on the Dongba script?

A. To provide insights into the local culture.

B. To share the latest findings about the language.

C. To help teachers give lessons on the language.

D. To support the preservation of the language.

6. What does the professor think of the use of digital methods in language protection?

A. It is only suitable for some languages.

B. It shouldn't replace the traditional way.

C. It can reduce the cost of language protection.

D. It helps protect languages in a well-organized way.

7. What does this text mainly talk about?

A. Joint efforts made so far to protect the Dongba script.

B. An international platform for the Dongba script.

C. The use of technology in studying the Dongba script.

D. The present situation of the Dongba script.

C

On a cool December afternoon a group of women are sitting in a circle on the grass, singing and clapping.

They are part of the“hargila army”, a group of rural women in the Indian state of Assam who work to protect one of the world's rarest storks (鹳): the greater adjutant — or hargila as the scavenger bird (食腐肉的鸟) is known locally. They are celebrating the UN Environment Programme's Champions of the Earth award, presented to the group's biologist founder, Dr Purnima Devi Barman.

The greater adjutant, a member of the stork family that can grow up to 1.5 meters tall, was once common throughout South Asia. But its eccentric features — a featherless (无毛的) head, striking pale eyes and long skinny legs — and its smelly droppings — won it few fans. Villagers attacked them with stones and burned their nests.

Today the greater adjutant is endangered, with fewer than 1,200 adult birds in its last strongholds (主要栖息地). Most of the global population is found in Assam, making Barman and the hargila army's work critical to its survival.

Several years ago, Barman began teaching the villagers about the birds' importance. In response, she was asked to clean the smelly mess herself. The unfriendliness she faced made her realize that to save the bird, she first needed to change the community's attitude to it. And it was the women who Barman believed held the key to community-led conservation. The problem was they were tied to their homes and household chores. So Barman found ways to bring them out where she could talk to them. She began organizing cooking competitions of traditional sweets, where she befriended the women and talked about the birds.

By 2014, the conservation movement had gathered speed and the hargila army was soon born.“Conservation is all about uniting people and building ownership,”says Barman.“I've always believed that, if given a chance, women can make a big difference in conservation.”Today, the bird is now a cultural symbol, appearing on everything from towels to road-safety campaigns.

8. What does the underlined word“eccentric”in paragraph 3 mean?

A. Useful.     B. Attractive.    C. Important.   D. Strange.

9. How did Barman change the women's attitude to the birds?

A.By introducing strict laws against harming the storks.

B.By creating interactive ways to connect with them.

C.By organizing educational campaigns for them.

D.By cleaning up the birds' mess herself.

10. How does Barman sound in the last paragraph?

A. Academic.    B. Humorous.    C. Confident.   D. Formal.