A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors — or of people very different from our own — can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.

In history books, objective(客观的) information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective(主观的): it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly “political” artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May, 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros — as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martinez — depicted these Mexican artists’ deep anger and sadness about social problems.

In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible.  Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls.  By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are unholy(不圣洁的).

1. More can be learned about a culture from a study of art history than general history because art history ____________.

A. shows us the religious beliefs and emotions of a people in addition to political values

B. provides us with information about the daily activities of people in the past

C. gives us an insight into the essential qualities of a time and a place

D. all of the above

2. Art is subjective(主观的) in that _________.

         A. a personal and emotional view of history is presented through it

         B. it can easily rouse our anger or sadness about social problems

         C. it will find a ready echo in our hearts 

         D. both B and C

3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

         A. Unlike Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso and several Mexican artists expressed their political opinions in their paintings.

         B. History books often reveal the compilers’ political views.

         C. Religious art remained in Europe for centuries the only type of art because most people regarded the Bible as the Holy Book.

         D. In the Middle East even today you can hardly find any human and animal figures on palaces or other buildings.

4. The passage mainly discusses __________.

         A. the difference between general history and art history     

         B. the making of art history    

         C. what we can learn from art        

         D. the influence of artists on art history

5. It may be concluded from this passage that __________.

         A. Islamic artists have had to create architectural decoration with images of flowers or geometric forms

         B. history teachers are more objective than artists

         C. it is more difficult to study art history than general history

         D. people and stories from the Bible were painted on churches and other buildings in order to popularize the Bible

第二节　信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

         阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卷上将对应题号         的相应选项字母涂黑。

         以下是儿童读物的信息：

 You and Me, Baby

B. Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff?

C. The Giving Tree

D. Where the Wild Things Are

E. Goodnight Moon (Board book)

F. Guess How Much I Love You (Board book)

以下是购书者或小读者的信息。请匹配购书者或小读者的信息与他们对应的读物。

56. Mrs. Green is a nurse in a hospital in London. She has a lovely daughter. She often says to her "Hey, Baby! Look at you, looking at me, looking at you looking at me". She is going to send her daughter to Grade 1 this September and buy a book with 40 pages for her.

57. Joe enjoys reading picture books about animals. He often buys some new ones. Last Saturday he bought a new book. There is such a sentence on the first page: “In a heartwarming twist on the ‘I-can-do-anything-you-can-do-better’ theme, Little Nutbrown Hare goes through a series of declarations regarding the breadth of his love for Big Nutbrown Hare”.

58. Tong Tong is five years and two months old now. His father bought him a story book for his birthday on July 2. Now he is reading “But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. … ”.

59. Mr. Smith lives in New York City. He has a two-year-old grandson, who likes to listen to some stories about animals and read picture books with a hide-and-seek adventure and lots of pop-up surprises on every page!

60. Susan’s mother bought her a new book today. In this book, there are many good bedtime activities — a reappearing little mouse is particularly pesky. By the end of the little rabbit's goodnight poem, the story has quieted to a whisper, and the drawings have darkened with nightfall. As you turn the last page, you can expect a sleepy smile and at least a yawn or two.

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）

 基础写作（共1小题；满分15分）

          请根据以下的情景说明，使用5个规范的英语句子描述所给的全部信息内容。中国面积达9,600,000平方公里，气候因地而异。根据下列信息写一篇有关中国气候及农业的短文。

          词汇：潮湿：humid

                   [写作要求] 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容

                   [评分标准] 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

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第二节  读写任务（共1小题；满分25分）            阅读下面的短文，然后根据

以下的任务和写作要求，写一篇150词以上的英语短文。

   【写作内容】  本篇文章叙述的是 “假如我又回到了童年，我就会有各种各样的设想” 这样一个主题。请阅读下面这篇文章后，简明扼要地复述这篇文章的基本内容以及本篇文章的主旨大意；然后根据这篇文章所叙述的各种各样的情况，结合现实生活，用120词以上就“If I were a boy again, …”为标题，谈一谈假如你又回到了童年，你的设想又是什么呢？

If I were a boy again, I would practise my perseverance（毅力） more often, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer(战胜) darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius（天赋） in its results. If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once. The habit of attention would become part of our life if we began early enough. If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation（培养）of the memory. I would strengthen that skill by every possible way, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; But memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.

【写作要求】    

1．作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子； 

2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】概括准确、语言规范、内容合适，篇章连贯。

If I were a boy again, …

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第二部分：英语知识及运用（共两节，满分35分)

第一节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

When I was walking down the street the other day, I happened to ___21______ a small brown leather purse lying on the sidewalk. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could ___22___ the owner's name. There was nothing inside it ____23______ some change and an old photo ―― a picture of a woman and a young girl of about twelve years, who looked like the woman's daughter. I put the photo back and ____24______ the purse to the police station, where I ___25_______ it to the desk sergeant. ____26______ I left, the sergeant took down my name and address ___27_______ the owner might want to write and thank me.

That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They ___28______ a young woman so that there would be four people at the table. Her face was familiar. I was ____29______ sure that we had not met before, but I could remember where I had seen her. In the course of conversation, however, the young woman happened to mention that she had lost her purse that afternoon. ___30______ I realized where I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo, although she was now much older.

21. A. watch                 B. notice             C. discover                   D. find out

22. A. find                    B. learn                        C. discover                   D. work out

23. A. besides        B. except               C. except for                 D. in addition to

24. A. took                   B. brought                    C. fetched                     D. sent

25. A. offered        B. passed               C. handed                     D. returned

26. A. Before         B. When                C. While               D. As

27. A. although             B. in case                     C. for fear                    D. so that

28. A. have also invited                              B. also had invited

C. also invited                                     D. had also invited

29. A. well                   B. much                       C. quite                        D. very

30. A. All at once B. At once                    C. Immediately             D. All suddenly

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为36~45的相应位置。

As soon as I returned from the USA, I called ___31______ Lily, one of my neighbors. I dialed several times, but I still could not get ___32_____ it. "Is it her telephone out of ___33______ or ___34______ she changed the number?" I thought. "She used to help me greatly when I was in need of her. She is a kind lady, ___35______ is thought highly of by others. Anyway, I must go to see her this time." The next morning, ___36______ wind was blowing hard.  ___37______ (Regard) of the bad weather, I went to the shop, buying some presents. Then I took a taxi and drove to her home. I arrived ten minutes later. I knocked at the door. Out came an old lady. "Is Lily's home here?" I asked her. "Oh, you are Tony!" The lady cried ___38______ amazement. "I myself am Lily!" "Is she Lily? She is much ___39______ than Lily!" It was my turn to be shocked this time. I stared at her for several minutes. "My God! She is Lily. ___40______ can one person change so much?"

第三部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节   阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspaper. "Last week," he said, "my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back."

"How did you write your advertisement?" asked one of the listeners, a merchant.

"Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, "Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella.. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street."

"Now," said the merchant, "I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I'll buy you a new one."

The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street. He is well known."

This appeared in the newspaper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors, and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.

1. What is an advertisement?

A. A news item.                                 B. public opinions.

C. One way to voice one's view.    D. A public announcement on papers, TV, etc.

2. The result of the first advertisement was that _________________________.

A. the man got his umbrella back

B. the man wasted some money advertising

C. nobody found the missing umbrella

D. the umbrella was found somewhere near the church

3. The merchant suggested that the man should ________________________.

A. buy a new umbrella                           B. go on looking for his umbrella

C. write another and better advertisement     D. report the police

4. "If it fails, I'll buy you a new one," suggested that the merchant ________________________.

A. was quite sure of success                        B. wanted to buy him a new umbrella

C. didn't know what to do                                 D. was rich enough to buy one

5. The story is mainly about ________________________.

A. a useless advertisement        

B. how to make an effective advertisement

C. how the man lost and found his umbrella

D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of September 2, 1666. In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. One hundred thousand people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.

The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker in Pudding Lane. The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into the Thames Street. That was the beginnings.

By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.

Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.

The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect, wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifty churches, among which was new St Paul's.

The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

1. The fire began in ___________________________.

A. a hotel         B. the palace          C. Pudding Lane          D. Thames Street

2. The underlined word "family" in the second paragraph means “________________________________”.

A. home             B. children              C. wife and husband    D. wife and children

3. It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that ________________________________.

A. some people lost their lives              

B. the birds in the sky were killed by the fire

C. many famous buildings were destroyed     

D. the King’s bakery was burned down

4. Why did the writer cite(引用) Samuel Pepys?

A. Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.

B. Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

C. To show that poor people suffered most

D. To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.

5. How was the fire put out according to the text?

A. The king and his soldiers came to help.

B. All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.

C. People managed to get enough water from the river.

D. Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.

6. Which of the following were reasons for the rapid spread of the big fire?

(a) There was a strong wind.

(b) The streets were very narrow.

(c) Many houses were made of wood.

(d) There was not enough water in the city.

(e) People did not discover the fire earlier.

A. (a) and (b)                                        B. (a), (b) and (c)         

C. (a), (b), (c) and (d)                            D. (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e)

第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先，请阅读下列职位广告

A.  Five Waiters and Ten Waitresses

—Aged less than 22.

—At least high school graduate.

—Good-looking; men at least 1.72 meters tall and women at least 1.60 meters tall.

—Those knowing foreign languages preferred.

—Salary 1,600-2,200 Yuan per month.

B.  One Secretary

—Aged less than 30.

—Female preferred.

—Good at writing and skilled at computer.

C.  Accountant

—Aged between 25 and 40.

—With an experience of at least two years.

—With a degree and an accountant certificate.

—Salary 3,000-4,000 Yuan monthly.

—With a practical knowledge of computer.

D.  Salesclerk

—Basic education of 12 years or more.

—Good at computer.

—Salary 1,800-2,200 Yuan monthly.

E.  English Teacher

—Aged between 35 and 45.

—With a master degree and a certificate in normal university.

—With an experience abroad preferred.

F.  Senior Lawyer

—Aged between 45 and 50.

—With doctor degree of law.

—With an experience of senior lawyer for at least three years.

—Those knowing English preferred.

请阅读以下求职者的相关信息，然后匹配和他/她感兴趣的职位：

56．Ann has been a senior lawyer with a doctor degree in the USA for five years. She returned to China last week. She wants to have the same job in Beijing.

57. Lisa, a l.7-meter-tall pretty girl, has just graduated from Jingshan High School. She is good at foreign languages, especially English.

58. Li Wei became an English teacher in a high school in New York after he had got the master degree and a certificate in California University. He came back to China last week and wanted to act as an English teacher in Guangzhou.

59. Lanra, who is a 23-year-old lady, is good at writing as well as computer. She would like to be employed as a secretary.

60. Lu Bin, who can operate on the computer well, has just graduated from Guangya Middle School. She can have the chance to go to university, but she gives it up. She wants learn to do business as a salesgirl first.

求职者                                      职位

56. Ann                                      A. Five Waiters and Ten Waitresses

57. Lisa                                      B. One Secretary

58. Li Wei                                     .C. Accountant

59. Laura                                    D. Salesclerk

60. Lu Bin                                  E. English Teacher

F. Senior Lawyer

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节    基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

［写作内容］

今天，电影院放映电影《卧虎藏龙》（英译：Crouching Tiger，Hidden Dragon），

你没能去看，觉得很遗憾，请写一篇日记，应包括以下内容：

1.没看电影很遗憾。

2.原因之一是要准备下周的考试。

3.另外，最近学习很忙，有时只吃面包、喝开水。

4.结果累坏了身体，病倒了。

5.电影放映时，只得躺在床上看书。

日记的格式已经给出：

June 19, 2010, Saturday                                                Rainy

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［写作要求］

1.只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容。   2.注意日记的格式。