单元测评(一) Unit 1 Art
(时间：90分钟 满分：110分)
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节；满分30分) 第一节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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
Several weeks ago, KidsPost did a story on “The Art of Video Games” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition has created debate (辩论) with some people saying that as fun as video games are, they are not works of art. Other people say that video games may be a new form of art and that they belong in museums. We asked readers for their opinions on the topic. Here are a few of the letters we received.
A video game is like a painting on a screen. In order to make a video game, you have to think of something original (新颖的) to reach the players. That is the point of art.
— Mary Pottanat, 13
I believe video games are not a form of art. Art should be a visual (视觉的) and creative expression of feelings. Although it is arguable that video games are visual, they do not express feelings in any way.
— Pranab Kirshnan, 12
However exciting video games are, they are not art. Painting is art, but not video games. Art has beauty and culture that no technology could ever compare to. Even though you can create art in some video games, the “Mona Lisa” wasn't painted with Nintendo.
— Caroline Kaplan, 10
Art is a way of communicating ideas to the public in a way that is fun
to them. The “public”， who in this case are kids and adults, are finding these video games from different time periods interesting. Video games would not have been art if it had not been for the kids and adults attracted by “the art of video games”．
— Ryan Puthumana, 10
语篇解读 本文是议论文。文章主要讨论了电子游戏是不是艺术。 1．Who's the author? A. An artist.
B. A video game creator.
C. Someone who works at KidsPost. D. Someone who works in a museum.
答案与解析 C 推理判断题。根据第一段的“KidsPost did a story”以及“We asked readers for their opinions on the topic”可推知，作者是一名《儿童邮报》的工作人员。
2．Ryan Puthumana holds the view that video games ________. A. aren't fun enough to be art B. are so interesting that they are art C. cannot express feelings as well as art D. are not so popular with kids as before
答案与解析 B 细节理解题。根据最后一段Ryan Puthumana所说的“Art is a way of ... fun to them”以及“The ‘public’， who ... interesting”可知，在Ryan Puthumana看来，艺术是用一种有趣的方式跟大众交流思想，而大众觉得这些来自不同时期的电子游戏十分有趣，可见他认为电子游戏很有趣，是一种艺术。
3．We can learn from the text that ________. A. Caroline Kaplan disagrees with Mary Pottanat B. only one kid thinks video games are similar to art C. Pranab Kirshnan doesn't like playing video games D. the older the kids are, the more they like video games
答案与解析 A 细节理解题。根据Caroline Kaplan所说的“but not video games”以及Mary Pottanat所说的“In order to make a video game ... That is the point of art”可知，两个人的观点不一致。
4．The text mainly discusses ________. A. the differences between video games and art B. why people like or hate video games C. whether video games are art or not D. what can be considered works of art
答案与解析 C 主旨大意题。文章第一段的“The exhibition has created debate (辩论) ... belong in museums”点明主旨。
B
One day, a traveler was walking near the top of a hill. He saw a little shepherd (牧羊人) boy with a group of sheep feeding around him.
As he came nearer he saw that the boy held a charred (烧焦的) stick in his hand, with which he was drawing something on a rock. The boy did not notice the stranger.
The stranger bent over him and looked at his picture, it was the picture of a sheep, and it was drawn so well that the stranger was filled with amazement.
The stranger's name was Cimabue. He was the most famous Italian painter of the time. He offered to take this little boy to Florence and teach
him to be a great painter.
The boy's face shone with delight. “I should like to learn to do that，” he answered. “But I must do as Father says.”
“Let's go and ask him，” said Cimabue.
The boy was called Giotto Bondone. He worked for a rich man by taking care of his sheep. Giotto's father was working in the field.
“I know that the boy can draw pictures wonderfully well，” he said, feeling surprised at Cimabue's offer. “He does not like to do anything else. Yes, you may take him. Perhaps he will do well with you.”
In the city of Florence little Giotto learned so fast that he could soon paint as well as Cimabue himself.
One day, Cimabue was painting the picture of a man's face. Night came on before he had finished it. “I will leave it till morning，” he said.
The next morning, when he looked at the picture, he saw a fly on the man's nose. He tried to brush it off, but it remained there. It was only a painted fly.
“Who has done this？” he cried.
Little Giotto came out from a corner, shaking. “I did it, master，” he said. He expected to be punished. But Cimabue only praised him for his great skill. “There are few men who can draw so good a picture of a fly，” he said.
语篇解读 本文是记叙文。文章介绍了意大利的著名画家乔托的童年故事。
5．Cimabue considered the picture on the rock ________. A. funny C. simple
B. ordinary D. wonderful