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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 the
17th-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 Thomas
Cole, 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(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his
ainting 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 of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.
71. The underlined word “poetry” most probably means __________.
A. an object for artistic creation B. acollection of poems
C. an unusual quality D. a natural scene
72. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because .
A. they are close in style to works in ancient times
B. they look like works by 19th-century painters
C. they draw attention to common things in life
D. they depend heavily on color photography
73. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?
A. It will not be found in future works of art.
B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.
C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.
D. It is lacking in modern works of art.
74. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
A. They express people's curiosity about the past.
B. They make people interested in everyday experience.
C. They are considered important for variety in form.
D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.
75. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. History of the arts. B. Basic questions of the arts.
C. New developments in the arts. D. Use of modern technology in the arts.
第II卷（共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：每行只有一个错误，请按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：请在答题卡上作答。
Last weekend we went mountain-climbing. Even the
Heavy rain in the morning could not prevent us go. Setting76. ______
Off very early, we went along an extreme narrow road, all 77. ______
in high spirits. On every side of the road were green fields 78. ______
and some farm house. We could hear the sound of the 79. ______
rain and our footsteps mixing with our laughter. At noon80. ______
we reached the top of the mountain. That surprised us 81. ______
most there was the beauty of scenes. After having a short82. ______
rest there and sharing with the food we had brought, we83. ______
started going down. It had rained even harder. We were84. ______
wet to the skin, and we still sang and laughed happily. 85. ______
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
据报道，7岁的美国女孩Amy Bruce得知自己身患肺癌（lung cancer）后处于极度的痛苦之中，
美国抗癌协会（ACS）决定，每当Amy收到一封慰问信，就给她增加3美分的治疗款。
假如你是新华中学的学生李华，请你用英文给Amy写一封慰问信，主要内容包括：
自我介绍
得知的情况
表示鼓励
打算为她做什么
祝她早日康复
注意：
信的格式已为你写好
信中不得出现你的真实情况。
词数100左右。
请在答题卡上作答。
参考答案
听力
1-5 BCCAA6-10 CCBBA11-15 BCACA16-17 BA 18. 7019. foreign 20. second / 2nd
单项选择
21-25 ACDCB26-30 DCBAB31-35 ABCDB
完形填空
36-40 DABCB41-45 CBADC46-50 DCDAB51-55 ABCCD
阅读理解
56-60 CA BAB61-65 DCABC66-70 DCDDA71-75 CCBDB
改错
76. go→going 77. extreme→extremely 78. every→each/ either 79. house→houses 80.
mixing→mixed81. That→What 82. scenes前加the 83. 去掉with 84. 去掉had 85. and →but
书面表达
Dear Amy,
I am a student from Xinhua Middle School. I am very sorry to have heard of your
present situation that you are so bitter after having a lung cancer.
At present, ACS decides that it will give you three cents when you receive a letter.
That will offer you so much courage. I hope you will make efforts to overcome all kinds of difficulty, no matter how hard it is. You are sure to make it.
I will try my best to ask all my friends, schoolmates and relatives to write letters to you, which may help you. It will give more courage to live on.
May you recover soon.
Yours,
Li Hua