Several weeks ago, kidsPost did a story on “The Art of Video Games” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition has created debate with some people saying that as fun as video games are ,they are not works of art. Other people say that videos games may be a new form of art and that they belong to in museums. We asked readers for their opinions on the topic. Here are a few of the letters we received.
A video game is like a painting on a screen. In order to make a video game, you have to think of something original(新颖的)to reach the players. This is the point of Art.
---Mary Pottanat,13
I believe video games are not a form of art. Art should be a visual (视觉的)and creative expression of feelings. Although it is arguable that video games are visual ,they do not express feelings in any way.
---Prannab Kirshnan,12
However exciting video games are, they are not art. Painting is art, but not video games. Art has beauty and culture that no technology could ever compare to. Even though you can create art in some video games, the “ Mona Lisa” wasn’t painted with Nintendo.
---Caroline Kaplan,10
Art is a way of communicating ideas to the public in a way that is fun to them. The “public”, who in this case are kids and adults, are finding these video games from different time periods interesting. Video games would not have been art if it had not been for the kids and adults attracted by “the art of video games”.
---Ryan Puthumana,10
1.Who’s the author?
A. An artist.
B.A video game creator.
C. Someone who works at KidsPost.
D. Someone who works in a museum.
2.Ryan Puthumana holds the view that video games________.
A. aren’t fun enough to be art.
B. are so interesting that they are art.
C. can’t express feelings as well as art.
D. are not so popular with kids as before.
3.We can learn from the text that ______.
A. Caroline Kaplan disagrees with Mary Pottanat.
B. Only one kid thinks video games are similar to art.
C. Prannab Kirshnan doesn’t like playing video games.
D. The older the kids are ,the more they like video games.
4.The text mainly discusses____________.
A. the differences between video games and art.
B. why people like or hate video games.
C. whether video games are art or not.
D. what can be considered works of art.
阅读快车系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河南许昌三校高一上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误, 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。
This is a story was told by my father: “When I was boy, the most excited thing was to celebrate the Spring Festival. My grandma was the best cooker in the world but could make the most delicious dishes. One time, I just couldn’t wait for the Spring Festival dinner. As I was about take a piece from a cooked duck, I saw Grandma in the kitchen looking at me. Shake her head, she said, ‘It isn't a good time to do that, dear.’ At once I apologize and controlled me at my best till the dinner started. You know, that was a dinner I had waited for several month.”
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年贵州航天高级中学高二上学期期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Last year, I lived in Chile（智利）for half a year. I lived with a Chilean family and had the responsibilities of any Chilean teenager. I had good days and bad days I didn’t understand.
Chuquicamata, my host community, is a mining camp. When I arrived there, I was scared. It was so different from what I was used to. There were lots of dogs in the streets, and there was no downtown, few smoothly paved（铺砌的）streets, and little to do for entertainment. Rain was not seen very often, earthquakes and windstorms were frequent.
I had studied Spanish for two and a half years and was always one of the best students in my class. But in my first week in Chile I was only able to communicate and needed one person to whom I could explain my shock. I couldn’t speak the thoughts in my head and there were so many.
Most exchange students experienced this like me. Culture shock presents（呈现）itself in everything from increased aggression（攻击）towards the people to lack of appetite（食欲）. I was required（要求）to overcome all difficulties.
As time passed, everything changed. I began to forget words in English and to dream in Spanish and love Chilean food. I got used to not depending on expensive things for fun. Fun in Chuquicamata was being with people. And I took math, physics, chemistry, biology, Spanish, art, and philosophy.
But the sacrifices（牺牲）were nothing compared to the gain. I learned how to accept and to succeed in another culture. I now have a deeper understanding of both myself and others.
1. The author came to Chile last year with the purpose of ________.
A. paying a visit to Chile as a tourist
B. experiencing Chilean life as a teacher
C. studying Chilean culture as a college student
D. studying knowledge as an exchange student
2. On arriving in Chile, why did the author feel frightened?
A. Because he did not know how to get along with the local people.
B. Because it was full of dangers like earthquakes and windstorms.
C. Because its living conditions were worse than what he was used to.
D. Because it was not convenient for him to shop there.
3.What did the author most probably think of his life in Chile?
A. Wonderful and worthwhile
B. Difficult but meaningful
C. Difficult and meaningless
D. Boring and disappointing
4. According to the passage, which of the following statements about Chile is TRUE?
A. Its official language is Spanish and English.
B. It is a developing country without foreign students.
C. It seldom rains and natural disasters often happen.
D. Most Chileans are not friendly to foreigners.
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山西忻州第一中学高一上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor．Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life．
Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking and cheap, some extremely expensive — telling them to help themselves to the coffee．
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones．While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress．The fact is that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee．In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink．What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously(有意识地） went for the best cups．．．And then you began eyeing each other's cups．
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not change the quality of life we live．Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us．"God makes the coffee, not the cups．Enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything．They just make the best of everything．"
Live simply．Love generously．Care deeply．Speak kindly．Leave the rest to God．
1.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．the nice-looking cup .
B．the ordinary-looking cup .
C．the coffee of good quality .
D．the coffee of poor quality.
2.Why did the professor offer his students coffee with varieties of cups?
A．To give his students many more choices．
B．To teach his students how to enjoy coffee．
C To tell his students the right attitude to life
D．To show the students his collection of cups．
3.According to the professor, the happiest people are the ones who _____．
A．get the best type of coffee cups
B．care about social status and wealth
C．have a wide range of coffee cups
D．make the best of what they have
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年广西桂林十八中学高二上10月英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Throughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers, and the “society”. Growing scientific evidence suggests, however, that boys’ and girls’ toy preferences may have a biological origin.
In 2002, Gerianne M. Alexander of Texas A&M University and Melissa Hines of City University in London surprised the scientific world by showing that monkeys showed the same sex typical toy preferences as humans. In the study, Alexander and Hines gave two masculine toys (a ball and a police car), two feminine toys (a soft doll and a cooking pot), and two neutral(中性的) toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog) to 44 male and 44 female monkeys. They then assessed the monkeys’ preference for each toy by measuring how much time they spent with each. Their data showed that male monkeys showed significantly（显著地） greater interest in the masculine toys, and the female monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the feminine toys. The two sexes did not differ in their preference for the neutral toys.
If children’s toy preferences were largely formed by gender socialization, as traditional sociologists’ claim, in which their parents give “gender appropriate” toys to boys and girls, how can these male and female monkeys have the same preferences as boys and girls？They were never socialized by humans, and they had never seen these toys before in their lives.
1.Traditional sociologists believe boys’ and girls’ toy preferences ________.
A. are passed down from their parents
B. have a biological origin
C. have nothing to do with gender socialization
D. are largely formed in later life
2.The study by Alexander and Hines shows that monkeys________.
A. also play toys as humans do
B. also have a sex typical toy preference
C. have no toy preferences
D. like to play different toys at different time
3.Alexander and Hines carried out the study to ________.
A. find out why boys and girls prefer different toys
B. test the intelligence of monkeys
C. test whether monkeys like to play toys
D. find more evidence for traditional sociology
4.Masculine toys are mainly intended for________.
A. monkeys B. adult C. boys D. girls
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年陕西西安一中高一上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course 20 years ago.
The professor ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to ____how many beans the jar contained. After ____shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the ____ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just ____an important lesson about science. That is: Never____ your own senses.” Twenty years later, the ____could guess what the professor had in mind. He ____himself,perhaps,as inviting his students to start an exciting ____into an unknown world invisible（无形的）to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be true .The professor, however, said that it was .he was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute替代.“I remember feeling small and ,”the women says,“and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
1.A.art B.history C.science D.math
2.A.searched for B.looked at C.got through D.marched into
3.A.count B.guess C.report D.watch
4.A.warning B.giving C.turning away D.listening to
5.A.ready B.possible C.correct D.difficult
6.A.learned B.prepared C.taught D.taken
7.A.lose B.trust C.sharpen D.show
8.A.lecturer B.scientist C.speaker D.woman
9.A.described B.respected C.saw D.served
10.A.voyage B.movement C.change D.rush
11.A.professor B.eye C.knowledge D.light
12.A.model B.senses C.spirit D.methods
13.A.hear B.make C.present D.refuse
14.A.suggesting B.beginning C.pretending D.waiting
15.A.believed B.doubted C.proved D.explained
16.A.growth B.strength C.faith D.truth
17.A.firm B.interesting C.wrong D.acceptable
18.A.task B.tool C.success D.connection
19.A.cruel B.proud C.frightened D.brave
20.A.dropped B.started C. passed D.missed
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2016届山东省临沂市高三上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
International Exchange Programme
The application form for participation on the exchange programme for 2016／17 can be found in Application Procedures．
Applying Qualification—Current Queen Mary undergraduate students(with the exception of students in Biomedical Sciences，Chemistry，Dentistry and Medicine)have qualifications to apply.
Law Students—Students enrolled in The School of Law should contact Sheila Shirley(s．shirley@qmul．ac．uk)for details of study abroad opportunities.
English and Drama Studen—Students cannot study abroad for the full academic year. Students will be able to spend only the autumn semester studying at one of our exchange partners·
Applications
A complete application will consist of the two-page application form，a personal statement and a supporting academic reference．Students should follow these application procedures. Applicants must ensure they have spoken to their departmental study abroad instructor before submitting their application．Applications can be submitted in person at The Study Abroad Office(E09，Ground Floor，Queens’Building)or by email to h．gibney@qmul．ac．uk
New Exchange Partners for 2016／2017
For 2016／17 we hope to offer students the opportunity to study abroad at the following new partners：The University of Pennsylvania—UPenn(USA)，The University of Sydney(Australia) and Waseda University(Japan)．Should we be unable to send students to any of these new institutions on exchange，and if you intend to include one or more of these destinations with your application，please provide at least one alternative destination from the list of other partner programmes．
1.Who can apply for the exchange programme?
A．Students in Biomedical Sciences
B．Students in Chemistry
C．Students in Dentistry
D．Students in English and Drama
2.The law students who want to study abroad should______．
A．email to h．gibney@qmul．ac．uk
B．email to s．shirley@qmul．ac．uk
C．go to E09，Ground Floor，Queens’Building
D．go to Masons Lecture Theatre Hall，Bancroft Building
3.What will you do if you can’t be sent to the new exchange partners?
A．Wait for another proper opportunity．
B．Cancel your exchange programme．
C．Provide another university from the list．
D．Contact the university by yourself．
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年江苏南京盐城两市高三一模考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
— I can’t bear the air pollution in this city anymore．It is getting worse and worse．
— ________！We’ve never had so many chemical factories before．
A． I wouldn’t bet on it B． You said it
C． Keep it up D． Come off it
查看答案和解析>>
湖北省互联网违法和不良信息举报平台 | 网上有害信息举报专区 | 电信诈骗举报专区 | 涉历史虚无主义有害信息举报专区 | 涉企侵权举报专区
违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com
