A famous and terrifying painting, Guernica (1937) is a picture of the horror caused to the town of Guernica by bombs during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In the picture, the sky actually falls in. Picasso could not have painted it without the skills he had learned during his cubist period. They had prepared him for showing the town being destroyed.
“Instead of showing objects from one viewpoint, Picasso showed them from many different angles,” said The Huffington Post. 28．What is the article mainly about?
A．Why Picasso’s paintings have a lasting appeal. B．What inspired Picasso to become a great artist. C．Picasso’s great, revolutionary achievements in art. D．The background of the birth of Picasso’s analytic cubism.
29．What do we know about the painting revolution started by Picasso and Georges Braque? A．They painted like there was depth in their paintings. B．They painted objects that they had broken into pieces. C．They tried to make their paintings look like windows.
D．They showed the different angles of an object in their paintings. 30．Picasso and Georges Braque started analytic cubism because _______. A．they believed art needed to change to follow the changing world B．they wanted to apply Einstein’s theory of relativity to painting C．Picasso wanted to make waves just like Einstein did D．new political movements had forced art to change
31．The painting Guernica is mentioned in the 7th paragraph to show _______. A．the main themes of Picasso’s paintings B．the philosophy behind Picasso’s paintings
C．what Picasso had learned during the cubist period D．that Picasso’s analytical approach made it a masterpiece
D
Heads turned, tears dropped, and gossip-filled whispers went on and on from the hospital passages to the house windows. There was a problem: a daughter had been born. She wasn’t the first disappointment born to her family. Although my aunt didn’t care about giving birth to a girl, her mother-in-law constantly reminded her of the criticism she would have to face if she gave birth to a daughter. In India, most people held these views.
When I visited my relatives during the summer, one sentence managed to fill me with anger and start arguments with my so-called relatives. “You are a girl, stay within your limits.” They simply don’t know how different it is living in the US. Anyway, comparisons to my cousins led me to end the arguments for the moment and accept the way they lived their lives.
My words didn’t make sense to them so my mind was set on proving them wrong. Although their words didn’t tear me apart, their actions managed to. The amount of sexism(性别歧视) in this culture, especially my hometown, made me feel bad. It was the 21st century, yet women had to eat after the men at family gatherings. They had to cook all the family meals and were asked to take jobs that required little skill or education. It was time to change these views.
As I was growing older, the same relatives repeatedly questioned me about my future: “What do you want to be?” And the answer was always the same：electrical engineer. I have a passion for electronics; as clichéd(陈词滥调的) as it sounds, I was born to do it. When I connect wires together to repair something, I can’t contain my excitement. But when I tried to explain this to my relatives, all of them, except for my parents and grandparents, would be shocked and laugh at me — laugh because
they didn’t think I could live up to my goals, being a “girl and all”. It was time to change these views.
In my world, being a girl is not a problem. Rather, it is an opportunity to allow passion, not stereotypes(成见), to shape my future. I decided to channel my relatives’ views into positive energy. Rather than letting them bring me down, I let them be motivation to achieve my goal of becoming an engineer. I, a female, will become a successful engineer.
32．The first paragraph was mainly written to _______.
A．describe how bad the author’s aunt felt for having a baby girl B．show that most Indian people are strongly prejudiced against women
C．describe the pressure the author’s aunt had to face when she was going to have a baby
D．show that the author’s aunt’s generation is fighting against prejudice against women
33．From the second and third paragraphs, it can be concluded that _______. A．the author’s friends and relatives were jealous about her life in the US B．the author realized that just using words couldn’t change the relatives’ sexism C．the author got used to being reminded to stay within her limits after she was born D．the author often argued with her relatives because she believed US lifestyles were right
34．In the article, in what way does the author show how serious the amount of sexism was in her hometown?
A．By describing feeling defeated after arguments. B．By stressing the conflicts she had with her relatives. C．By describing people’s words, behavior and common practices.
D．By giving examples of how her goals were laughed at repeatedly.
35．According to the text, the author decided to change her relatives’ views by _______.
A．achieving her dream of becoming an engineer B．using her relatives’ comments as motivation C．letting stereotypes influence her future decisions D．achieving her ambition of changing her hometown
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Can you fall fast asleep at night? If not, you can try to drink a glass of hot milk. 36 Still no luck? Try thinking about sheep jumping over a fence. Count them to yourself, “One, two, three, four…one hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and ninety-six…”
37 Should you take a sleeping pill? People who take pills often come to depend on the drugs. So you lie awake knowing that the new work day will soon arrive. If this happens to you forat least one month, you may have primary insomnia(失眠). There are millions of you…us…around the world.
A new study has found that you might fall asleep quicker and stay asleep longer if you try “cerebral hypothermia”. No, cerebral hypothermia is not a complex medical process. 38
Two American professors led the study. They examined 12 people who had insomnia and 12 others who had no sleep problems. Each of them wore a soft plastic cap on their heads at bed time.
39 The researchers moved the water through the tubes and then changed the temperature of the water. Other studies showed that people who had trouble sleeping