Unit 1 Art
SectionⅠ—WarmingUp,Pre-reading,
Reading&Comprehending
一、根据句意和首字母或汉语提示写出单词
1Though it was only a small failure,it made Rose lose f in success. 答案:faith
2His theory is so (抽象的) that only a few students like it. 答案:abstract
3Living without an a is like sailing without a compass. 答案:aim
4It is a c that we arrived here at the same time. 答案:coincidence
5It is (明显的) that smoking is harmful to health. 答案:evident
6This picture is (有代表性的) of its kind. 答案:typical
7Although he is proud of his (财产),he is poor in feelings. 答案:possessions
8Simply to imagine a pig flying is r . 答案:ridiculous
9I cannot (预言) when to meet you again. 答案:predict
10All his (尝试) to get through the driving test without being trained has failed. 答案:attempt
二、单句改错
1If he is my son, I wouldn’t let him learn to drive a car.
答案:is→were
2I attempted buy one of the paintings by Picasso,but it cost too much.
答案:attempted后加to
3A great number of money is going to be spent on preventing the river from being polluted.
答案:number→deal
4On the another hand,traditional Chinese painting will take a longer time to learn than oil painting.
答案:another→other
5Not all the couples are allowed to adapt the children whose parents died in the earthquake.
答案:adapt→adopt
三、用下列词组的正确形式完成句子
aim at scores of as well as in possession of by coincidence in one’s attempt concentrate on a great deal of have faith in would rather 1Li Hong is such a girl who can her attention her study for a whole class. 答案:concentrate;on
2I the tree but hit the car by mistake. 答案:aimed at
3He has been a doctor for ten years and we his ability. 答案:have faith in
4An old worker was found a painting of the Tang Dynasty.
答案:in possession of
5My grandfather work in the garden than drink tea in the room.
答案:would rather
6On May Day, shoppers entered the supermarket. 答案:scores of
7She is a talented musician a photographer. 答案:as well as
8When the earthquake happened, ,about 150 students were having PE lessons on the playground. 答案:by coincidence
9She looked through information for the report.
答案:a great deal of
10 to reach the mountain summit,they made preparations for everything. 答案:In their attempt ★四、阅读理解
(2017·全国Ⅰ高考)
Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day.UNESCO(United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day
to raise awareness of jazz music,its significance,and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures.
Despite the celebrations,though,in the U.S.the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older,and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that.As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz,Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz,make the music more accessible,and preserve its history and culture.
“Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan.“What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and white anymore.It’s actually color,and it’s actually digital.”
Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.“The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958.It has to continue to move,because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran.
Last year,Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party,“just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran.“For me,it’s the recontextualization.In music,where does the emotion(情感) lie?Are we,as humans,gaining any insight(感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts?Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran,“so I want to continue those dialogues.Those are the things I want to foster.”
1Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day? A.To remember the birth of jazz. B.To protect cultural diversity. C.To encourage people to study music. D.To recognize the value of jazz.