Unit 1 Art 单元综合测评

(时间:100分钟 分值:120分)

选择题部分

Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节,满分35分)

第一节(共10小题;每小题2.5分,满分25分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

A

As long as I can remember, I’ve always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn’t encouraged very much. Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic. Certain peer pressures encouraged little fingers to learn how to hold footballs rather than crayons.

My early love for drawing developed into a love for telling stories through pictures. Stories began as fragments (片段) of pictures in my mind. I created a story by posing questions to myself. I called it the “what if” and “what then” approach. For example, for my book The Polar Express, I started out by thinking “What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?”

From the time I come up with the idea, write and illustrate the book, and deliver it to the printer, it takes about seven months. Firstly, I begin thinking of the idea. Then I imagine the pictures and the story. A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting. I first consider scenes that are exciting to look at and then my challenge is to weave a story around those pictures. The next step is putting the illustrations and story down on paper.

When you first look at my illustrations, you see ordinary, everyday things. But if you look closer, things might not seem quite so simple. When I’m writing a book, I always try to create something strange or puzzling in each picture. By using artistic strategies, I can give the drawing a kind of mysterious quality.

All of my books are picture books, so they are generally thought of as books for children. But when I make them, I think of the books as being for everybody—for people of all ages. When I was a kid, I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, but now I’m really glad I became an artist and a storyteller. 1.Why does the author mention The Polar Express? A.To tell us an interesting story. B.To introduce his famous work. C.To make up a sentence with “what if”. D.To show us how he designed his book.

2.The underlined word “arresting” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ”.

A.frightening B.interesting C.satisfying D.worrying 3.What would be the best title for this passage? A.Telling stories by drawing B.“What if” and “what then” C.How to tell interesting stories D.Working as a famous storyteller

B

Recently, a painting of actress Elizabeth Taylor, which was drawn by American artist and film-maker Andy Warhol, sold for $63 million. Another simple black-and-white image of a Coca-Cola bottle sold for $35 million. But the all-time record for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a piece titled Eight Elvises. What’s amazing is not that the pieces sold for so much, but the fact that they are not what you would call traditional art. They are “pop art”, art based on simple images of things and people from advertising, movies, music and day-to-day life. Born in the 1920s, Warhol grew up mostly separated from other children due to health problems. He spent a lot of his time alone drawing and then went on to study art in college. He began his career as a commercial artist, creating pictures for magazine articles and newspaper ads. That inspired him to experiment with pop art and he hosted America’s first pop art exhibition in the 1960s. The show met with a lot of discussion with some people saying that what he was doing was not art.

Warhol followed his first works with a series we are all familiar with—paintings of Coca-Cola bottles, Brillo soap pad boxes, and portraits (肖像) of famous people. Soon after, Warhol stopped creating his own artwork. Instead, he had assistants and other artists create them at his studio called “The Factory”. Warhol wanted to show the world that art doesn’t have to be complex or original; it can be created by anyone using ordinary things. Today, Warhol’s work is unmistakable in its uniqueness. No matter how you may feel about his work, one thing cannot be argued. He introduced the world to a whole new art form, inspiring future generations of artists, and eventually becoming one of the most famous and successful pop art artists in the world. 4. Which of the following pictures sold for $100 million?

A B C D

5. During his childhood, Warhol . A.drew pictures for magazines B.always lived a lonely life C.showed no interest in art

D.liked to paint and dance

6. Calling his studio “The Factory”, Warhol tried to show . A.his studio was as big as a factory B.pop art is different from traditional art C.artists prefer to work in a factory D.art should be simple and easy to produce

C

This year, the Paris museum that looks like a jumble (杂乱的一堆) of giant, coloured pipes turns 40. The museum—the Pompidou Centre—has a secure place in the heart of Paris and in Parisians’ hearts. But it isn’t always the case.

“When it was first built, the reaction was one of disbelief,” said Serge Lasvignes, president of the Pompidou Centre. “Le Monde newspaper wrote the museum’s construction brought shame on Paris, and city politicians thought their money had been totally wasted,” said Lasvignes. Critics said it looked like an oil refinery(炼油厂). France’s first museum entirely devoted to contemporary art saw the light of day thanks to the determination of one man—Georges Pompidou, an art-lover who served as France’s president from 1969 to 1974.

In 1971, he started an international competition to build the museum, originally known as the Centre Beaubourg. The winning team, which included three young architects from Britain and Italy, was completely unknown at the time. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the two architects who saw the project through, made the plan a reality.

“They didn’t think they had a chance to win. So they thought they might as well do exactly what they wanted,” Lasvignes said.

“The design took everyone by surprise and it was completely different from any other museum. Someone said to Piano, ‘Your thing is terrible—with the escalator (自动扶梯) on the outside, it looks like a supermarket!’” Lasvignes added.

Forty years later, the museum still tries to make culture available to everyone, Lasvignes said. He calls the Pompidou Centre a museum like no other. “We are not only a museum,” he said. “We have concerts, debates, performances, a library…and everything flows together.” Pompidou felt putting up walls between different forms of art was harmful. “So we are a house of culture where people return again and again,” Lasvignes said.

The Pompidou Centre is Europe’s biggest modern art museum; New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the biggest in the world. “But the two museums have totally different strategies (策略),” Lasvignes said. “The MoMA’s strategy is to collect masterpieces, and we try to represent an entire epoch(时代).” 7.What was people’s attitude to the Pompidou Centre at first? A. They disliked it. B.They respected it.

C. They were curious about it.