D Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists．No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change---to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before．
Landscape (风景) is another unchanging element of art．It can be found from ancient times through the17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists．In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice．Leslie sought out the same place where ThomasCole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before．Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees．In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background．He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom．
Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another．The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests．To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods．
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant．Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience．Many and different are the faces ofart, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings．
1.The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ________ ．
A．an object for artistic creation
B．an unusual quality
C．a collection of poems
D．a natural scene
2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because ___________．
A．they draw attention to common things in life
B．they look like works by 19th-century painters
C．they are close in style to works in ancient times
D．they depend heavily on color photography
3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?
A．It does not have a long-lasting standard
B．It will not be found in future works of art．
C．It is expressed in a fixed artistic form．
D．It is lacking in modern works of art．
4.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A．History of the arts．
B．Use of modern technology in the arts．
C．Basic questions of the arts．
D．New developments in the arts．
C I am a writer．I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth．Language is the tool of my trade．And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with．
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks．Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English．But I feel embarrassed to say that．It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness．I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example．But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions(认识)of the limited English speaker．
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her．I was ashamed of her English．I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say．That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect．And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her．
I started writing fiction in 1985．And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure．I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts．
1.By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______．
A．she is a writer by profession
B．she is fascinated by languages
C．she works as a translator
D．she uses English in foreign trade
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A．Americans do not understand broken English．
B．Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts．
C．The author’ mother had positive influence on her．
D．The author’s mother was not respected sometimes．
3.The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is _____．
A．well structured
B．rich in meaning
C．in the old style
D．easy to translate
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A．The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English．
B．The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother．
C．The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English．
D．The author’s experiences of using broken English．
B
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1.The position of a(n)_______is a part-time job．
A．florist
B．artist
C．preschool teacher
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2.Which of the following is the most important for the childcare job?
A．The ability to work well with other people．
B．Childcare experience．
C．The ability to start work in two weeks．
D．Cooking skills．
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A qualified doctor who rarely practiced but instead devoted his life to writing．He once said: “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover．” Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was a great playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story．
When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family．After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper．
As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less．Chekhov’s medical and science experience can be seen through the indifference (冷漠) many of his characters show to tragic events．In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories．
Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia．Tragic events control his characters who are filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair．
It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhov’s stories and plays．He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters．Chekhov’s work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity(敏感) of an artist．
Some of Chekhov's works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s．One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell, about a school teacher’s extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students．
1.Which of the following is the right order of the events?
a．became a doctor
b．became a full time writer
c．started to publish comic short stories
d．wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper．
e．entered the Moscow University Medical School
A．e→c→b→a→d
B．d→a→b→c→e
C．e→c→a→d→b
D．a→e→d→c→b
2.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ________．
A．as an illegal writer
B．had a lawful lover
C．used to be a lawyer
D．was a competent doctor
3.In 1880, Chekhov ________．
A．studied medicine in Moscow University
B．published his most memorable stories
C．became a full-time writer
D．practiced medicine in his hometown
4.Which of the following adjectives can’t be used to describe Chekhov?
A．Sensitive．
B．Warm-hearted．
C．Quick-minded．
D．Cool．
书面表达（共1小题）
假如你是银川一中的李华，你在某英文论坛上看到一个帖子。澳大利亚中学生Martin想来中国旅游，你向他推荐了西安市，请根据以下提示写一封电子邮件。
内容包括：1．自我介绍；
2．推荐理由：历史悠久、景色优美、文化丰富、市民友好、小吃多样；
3．你的祝愿。
注意：1．字数不少于100；
2．适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。
Dear Martin,
I’m very glad to have read the post that you put on the English Forum．
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错（共1小题）
假段定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As is often the case, when people are attending to meetings, having meals or waiting for buses, you can always find them addicting to their phones, completely ignoring others．
This is really a common phenomena in our life．The reason is why smart phones nowadays can be used for people to play mobile games and kept in touch with friends through QQ and WeChat．Therefore, too much exposure to phones are bad for people in terms of health．Moreover, people involved in phones fail to communicate well with these around them．
As far as I am concerned, people should wisely make use of their phones to help their work and study．Meanwhile, care much about their family and friends rather than mobile phones．
