高级英语2017年10月真题试题及答案解析（00600）

我亲自处理这些重要的项目，如果做得不错而获得称赞，我就会欣喜不己，感到极其骄傲和自负。但是在这种挑战与满足的波峰之间，是单调与绝望。

不久前我和一个老朋友谈到这个问题。她教给我一个屡试不爽的应对失眠的妙方，那就是想象自己在反复地做某个细小的动作，直到她烦透了这种单调的生活，睡意也就悄然而至了。她最喜欢的方式是想象在墙上有一幅画挂得有点歪，然后去把它正过来。

他在我们面前站了片刻，然后示意我们进入客厅。

在这方面，他们唯一的竞争对手就是大公司的领导。

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女人好像没有意识到的是有些事情你知道但不该说出来。

但是，十几亿年以来，人们一直都是根据味道来进食的。

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Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all (32) are absolute). I didn't question (33) Mrs. Flowers had singled me out for attention, nor did it occur to me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking (34) . All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and (35) to me from her favorite book. It was enough to (36) that she liked me.The key is to segment the market vertically. This (37) the company to pitch. specific customers with (38) services that no other company can begin to provide. Example: One customer (39) is the legal profession. Cable & Wireless is developing (40) and functions that have tremendous (41).However, patterns of (42) by Asian-Americans to this country, the cultural (43) language problems and discrimination they have faced have all taken a (44) of their elderly and their families. This is particularly (45) of older Chinese men, who were not allowed to (46) their wives and families with:them to the United States or to intermarry.This increased my natural hatred of (47) and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had (48) me some understanding of the nature of (49) ; but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate (50) orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still (51) to reach a firm decision.I remember going to a writer for a (52) magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should (53) . He agreed, but said it would never get (54) his desk because the Army would rescind the magazine's (55) to cover the war, and if you don't cover the war you don't sell magazines, and if you don't sell magazines then (56) happens because that's the American way.

A.authority B.accreditation C.conclusions D.segment E.nothing

F.national G.to H.specialized I.political J.bring

K.prove L.by M.why N.given O.appeal

P.hear Q.enables R.features S.toll T.immigration

U.imperialism V.true W.failed X.barriers Y.read

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What do you think is the function of art?

It is not surprising that some artists finally began to create work that did not refer to anything seen in the real world.

Furthermore, vision is conditioned by context, memories, and events in time.

The two worlds influence each other, so that in art as in life, one confuses. symbols or painted representations with the objects in the real world for which they stand.

Ever since the Renaissance, European artists had treated the outside edges of paintings as window frames.

Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?

In Germany the tendency to use color for its power to express psychological forces continued in the work of artists known as the German Expressionists.

The word "reverberating" in Paragraph 10 means ( ).

The word "banal" in Par 7 means ( ).

According to Paragraph 9, Mondrian believed that ( ).

According to Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7, a cubist work is ( ).

Paragraph 4 shows that Cezanne's paintings ( ).

From Paragraph 3 we learn that Edward Munch ( ).

It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that van Gogh ( ).

The word "compositions" in Paragraph 1 means ( ).

(1) Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a small group of artists working in France and Germany began to re-evaluate the meaning and function of art. In the preceding century, art had lost many of its traditional functions. It had ceased to be an important method for recording the way things look because that job had been taken over by the camera. Artists now sought to isolate the special province of art, to define its own particular essence. Painters and sculptors joined other intellectuals in questioning classical standards based on rationalized patterns and generalized ideals. The world view of the 1890s had been so altered by the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth century that the cool. orderly classical figure style and static Renaissance compositions no longer seemed appropriate forms of expression.

(2) In 1886 the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) came from Holland to France, where he produced a revolution in the use of color. He used purer, brighter colors than artists had used before, he also recognized that color, like other formal qualities, could act as a language in and of itself. He believed that the local or "real" color of an object does not necessarily express the artists;experience. Artists, according to van Gogh, should seek to paint things not as they are, but as the artists feel them. In Public Garden at Arles, the colors of the pathway, the trees, and the sky are all far more intense and pure than the garden's real colors. Thus, van Gogh captures the whole experience of walking alone in the stillness of a hot afternoon.

(3) Practically unknown in his lifetime, van Gogh's art became extremely influential soon after his death in 1890. One of the first artists to be affected by his style was a Norwegian artist named Edward Munch (1863-1944), who discovered van Gogh's use of color in Paris. In The Dance of Life, Munch used strong, simple line and intense color to explore the unexpressed sexual stresses and conflicts that Sigmund Freud's studies were bringing to light. (In Germany the tendency to use color for its power to express psychological forces continued in the work of artists known as the German Expressionists.)

(4) Alongside the revolution in color, another revolution was occurring in the use of space. (Ever since the Renaissance. European artists had treated the outside edges of paintings as window frames.) The four sides of a frame bounded an imaginary cube of space - -a three dimensional world- -in which figures and background were presented. From about 1880 on, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) explored a new way of expressing the experience of seeing. He sought to create painting with perfectly designed compositions, true both to the subject matter and to his own perceptions. He also wanted to include and build upon tradition.

(5) Between 1909 and 1914, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) worked together to develop a new style that is called cubism. Like Cezanne, they explored the interplay between the flat world of the art of painting and the three-dimensional world of visual perception. (The two worlds influence each other. so that in art as in life, one confuses symbols or painted representations with the objects in the real world for which they stand.) This observation about experience is explicit in a cubist work like The Violin. Illustrations of fruit cut from an actual book are pasted in the corner. These sheets are real objects introduced into a drawing, or symbol. But the illustrations are also printed reproductions of drawings that were based on real fruit.

(6)In a typical Renaissance or baroque painting, objects are set inside an imaginary block of space, and they are represented from a single stationary point of view. A cubist work is constructed on a different system, so that it re-creates the experience of seeing in a space of time. One can only know the nature of a volume by seeing it from many angles. Therefore, cubist art presents objects from multiple viewpoints. (Furthermore, vision is conditioned by context. memories. and events in time). In The Violin, some of the words cut from real newspapers refer ironically to an artist's life. The numerous fragmentary images of cubist art make one aware of the complex experience of seeing.

(7) The colors used in early cubist art are deliberately banal, and the subjects represented are ordinary objects from everyday life. Picasso and Braque wanted to eliminate eye-catching color and intriguing subject matter so that their audiences would focus on the process of seeing itself.

(8) Throughout the period from 1890 to 1914, avant-garde artists were de-emphasizing subject matter and stressing the expressive power of such formal qualities as line, color, and space. (It is not surprising that some artists finally began t0 create work that did not refer to anything seen in the real world). Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a Dutch artist, came to Paris shortly before World War I. There he saw the cubist art of Picasso and Braque. The cubists had compressed the imaginary depth in their paintings so that all the objects seemed to be contained within a space only a few inches deep. They had also reduced subject matter to insignificance. It seemed to Mondrian that the next step was to eliminate illusionistic space and subject matter entirely. His painting Composition 7, for example, seems entirely flat.

(9) Mondrian, like several other early masters of modern art, was a philosophical idealist. He held that the objects of perception are actually manifestations of another independent and changeless realm of essences. Art, he believed, should take its audience beyond the world of appearances into the other, more “real" reality. Logically, he eliminated from his paintings any references to the visible world.

(10)The revolution in art that took place near the turn of the twentieth century is reverberating still. After nearly a hundred years, these masters of modern art continue to inspire their audiences with their passion and vision.

Holmes was asked to help the police investigating the ( ) deaths of children at the hospital.

Critics generally believe that Hemingway's work is ( ) on his own life.

Every morning she makes herself a cup of coffee, without which she cannot ( ).

The host made a sincere ( ) to his guests for having canceled the firework show.

Boys shouldn't stay indoors all the time. They get ( ) if they cannot go outside to play.

It was midsummer. It looked as if the whole town were in the water,swimming or simply ( ) about.

The recollection of the parting scene made me fall into a state of deep ( ).

While negotiating, one must bear in mind that a trade war is not a war in the ( ) sense.

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Instead of ( ) education and critical thinking, we should work on plausible measures against organized crimes.

The constant noise from his neighbors ( ) Mr. Andrews, who was busy writing his new novel.

It was so embarrassing that the chair ( ) under her weight at the meeting.

It seems ( ) to assume that all the drugs for sale have been tested.

Whether women should spend more time outside home has long been the subject of heated ( ) within the medical profession.

It is universally acknowledged that making the ( ) from youth to adulthood can be very painful.