2、Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but also he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand－he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.

What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.

Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in movement and rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, and that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, and that there is nothing more in it. Yet they do not choose them without reference to the character of their subjects.

If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(生疮的) leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something－all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

1．It is hard to explain what a painter is saying, because ___________.

A．painters do not express themselves well

B．painters use shapes and colors instead of words

C．painters use unusual words and phrases

D．painters do not say anything actually

2．The contemporary art contains ____________.

A．totally imaginary subjects

B．merely the subjects from nature

C．uninteresting aspects of the world

D．subjects chosen partly for their meaning

3．Compared with a painter of unpleasant subjects, a painter who draws a lake in moonlight is

_______________.

A．better to communicate with

B．more skilled at expressing himself

C．pointing at different things

D．showing more meaning

4．From the passage we can get the information that _____________.

A．paintings are not difficult to understand

B．painters intend to make the paintings hard to understand

C．artists don’t care about the public

D．one must look beyond shapes and colors to find what the artist is saying

1、Perhaps a parent’s most important contribution toward raising a trustful child is to develop a relationship founded on trust. A child of any age will feel proud and grown-up if parents frequently show their trust. In court a defendant(被告) is innocent until proved guilty. But in the family, a teenager “defendant” is too often assumed guilty.

Even when the child is caught in a complete lie, this should not be the end of trust. A parent can tell a child that a single lie is forgivable. Yet it should be clear that if lies continue, the child, like the boy who cried wolf, will suffer loss of trust.

When my wife and I discovered that our son Tom, then 13, had lied about throwing a party while we were away, we grounded him for a month. We also told Tom that we could no longer trust him, and we could not allow him to stay alone overnight again. This loss of freedom was an important lesson; he learned how hard it is to live with people when they don’t trust him. As a result, now more than three years later we can again trust Tom to stay alone overnight.

Parents must always remember there is no easy answer to this universal problem of lying. We can set a good example, allow for privacy, monitor friendship, develop trust and punish wrong doing, but still we discover our child has lied to us. Finally that’s why there is a need for trust on both sides of a parent-child relationship. Lying destroys closeness and friendship. For that reason, parents should always try to give a child the feeling that they can be trusted with the truth. Parents may start with a child’s trust, but as the child grows older, parents must earn it.

1．When the writer and his wife discovered that their son had lied, they _________.

A．took him from all his freedom

B．decided that they could never trust him again

C．forbade him to stay alone overnight for more than three years

D．arranged for him to live with people who do not trust him for more than three years

2．We can infer from the passage that very often ________.

A．parents don’t trust their child as they should

B．defendants are usually proved not guilty in court

C．parents have too much trust in their child

D．some children are founded guilty in court

3．According to the passage, the writer believes that _____________.

A．parents shouldn’t punish their children even if they lie

B．it is not easy to deal with the problem of lying as parents

C．there are many effective ways to prevent children from lying

D．a child will stop telling lies as he grows up

4．What does the underlined word “ground” mean in the passage?

A．To teach someone the basic things they should know in order to be able to do something.

B．To stop a child going out with their friends as a punishment for behaving badly.

C．To put someone on the ground and beat him.

D．To ask someone to stay on the ground and not to move.

22、请根据下面提示，写一篇作文。词数不少于50。

In your English class, the teacher shows this picture and asks the class to discuss the implied meaning（含义）in the picture and explain it with a good example in everyday life. Some of your classmates agree that if people do what is not proper for them, they will get into trouble. Not it’s your turn to describe the picture and tell the class how you understand the picture.

以下为答题区，必须用黑色字迹的签字笔在方框区域内作答。否则答题无效。

21、Summer Plans

Tim’s father was planning a summer vacation for the family. He thought that it might be interesting for the family to visit the Texas Country. He asked Tim to use the computer to see what the could find out about the area. Five minutes later Tim was looking at the following website.

Tim remembered that his father had said that the family might go camping. He decided to try to find a campground that everyone would enjoy. He kept searching the Internet until he found this website about a park in the Hill Country.

After reading the page, Tim said loudly, “That’s the one!” Then he went to find his father.

1．From the passage, we can tell that Tim’s father            .

      A．has no idea of where to spend the vocation

       B．is too busy with his work to make the plan

       C．doesn’t know how to use the computer

       D．trusts Tim to make a good decision

2．Which of the pictures best presents the scenery of the Hill Country described?

3．What can travelers do in the Hill Country?

       A．Visit the governor’s large house in Boerne.

       B．Take photos of wildflowers all year round.

       C．Drive to their campground by the river.

       D．Take their dogs with them on a leash.

4．Which of the following does Tim probably decide on for the vocation?

      A．The town of Bandera.                         

B．Austin, the state capital.

       C．The park near Bandera.                       

D．Fredericksburg and Boerne.

20、Keeping good records

Everything’s easier if you’re organized.

“Running a house is a lot like running a business,” says Stephanie Denton, an expert organize r in Cincinnati. Ohio. To get a successful control of organizing papers, bills, and other materials, Denton suggests the following tips:

Create a place in which you can always do your paperwork. This is perhaps the most important point of a successful system. If you can’t devote an entire desk to the task ,at least buy a file cart to store active paperwork and a two drawer file cabinet（橱柜）for family records. Store the rolling file cart wherever it is most convenient and comfortable to do your work, whether that is the kitchen, office, or family room.

When in doubt, throw it out. The first step to operating a workable filing system is to remove paper you don’t use, don’t need, or that you could easily access again elsewhere. Throw out old lists, and all of the mailings or offerings you’ll never have a chance to use or even read.

Set aside two days a month to pay bills. If a monthly due date doesn’t fit into your cycle, call up  the bank or company that you owe money to and suggest a more convenient date. Keep two folders at front of your system for present bills (one to each bill-paying day) and file all incoming bills. Keep a list in the front of each folder of what needs to be paid in case the bill never arrives or gets misplaced.

Think of your filing system not as a rigid tool, but as a living, breathing system that can vary to fit your changing needs. A good filing system is both mentally and physically adaptable. Everyone’s needs are different, says Denton, but when designing a filing system, ask yourself: “Where would I look for this?” Create main headings for your filing system, such as Investments(投资), Taxes, Children, and so on, and file separate folders under the main headings. Never fill your files with too many things.

1．Which of the following tips does authors give?

       A．Removing some papers unless you are in doubt.

       B．Creating main headings for each paper.

       C．Keeping all incoming bills in a folder.

       D．Buying a file cart for storing all files.

2．In the passage, the author clearly wants to help people           .

       A．try to make file cabinets tidy and clean

       B．carry out an effective filing system

       C．know the tips of running their business

       D．learn to deal with the materials successfully

3．The underlined word in the last paragraph means          .

       A．Fixed                  B．Active                 C．Special                D．Useless

4．Among the following main headings, you will probably fine “Kindergarten records” under      .

       A．Investments.    B．Taxes.      C．Children.   D．Folders.

19、Getting It in Writing

Writing is a system of communication relating to sight that is made up of symbols recorded on a surface. The symbols used in writing stand for words, sounds, or ideas. Writing is a relatively new idea in human history. It is only about 5.500 years old. The earliest writing systems were developed by the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Phoenicians.

The earliest known writing system appeared sometime between 3500 and 3000 B.C. in Sumer, a region in what is now known as the Middle East. Sumerian writing used pictographs(     ), or pictures, that stood for words or ideas. The Sumerians wrote with a pointed stick on wet and flat earth that later dried and hardened.

   Around 3000 B.C. the Egyptians, who were very creative, invented a kind of writing known as

hieroglyphics(      ). Most hieroglyphs drew whole words, but some of them stood for sounds in words. The Egyptians cut their hieroglyphs into the surface of stone, painted them on pottery, and wrote them on papyrus, a type of paper made from a plant fiber(纤维).

The Phoenicians were traders traveling regularly on the sea, and lived along the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They were the first to develop a different kind of writing system, around 1000 B.C. Instead of pictographs, Phoenician writing was made up entirely of letters. Their 22 letters stood for consonant（辅音）sounds in words, but vowel（元音）sounds were not stood for.Later the Greeks and Romans used the Phoenician system（    ）as the basis for their alphabets（字母表）, adding letters for vowel sounds.

1．How was the Phoenician alphabet different from the Greek and Roman alphabets?

       A．It had no letters for consonant sounds.

       B．It has no letters for vowel sounds.

       C．It was made up of pictographs.

       D．It had more letters.

2．Which of the following presents the right order of the writing system in the article?

3．What is the purpose of this article?

       A．To inform readers about how writing system developed

       B．To tell readers how the modern alphabet was invented.

       C．To persuade readers to study earliest writing systems.

       D．To describe symbols from ancient writing systems.

17、—Hurry up! We’ll miss the train. Can’t you run            faster?

—Sorry, I’m going as           as I can already.

A．some; faster B．any; faster  C．some; fast   D．any; fast

16、Be there on time,       you’ll create a bad impression.

A．and   B．but    C．otherwise  D．while