Unit 6 课时跟踪练(一) Warm up & Lesson 1

Unit 6课时跟踪练(一) Warm up & Lesson 1

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

Paper-cutting is a very special visual art of Chinese handicrafts. One saying is that it originated from the religious ceremony of offerings. The ancient people cut papers into animals or people. They either buried them with the dead or burned them on the funerals, wishing that things that paper stands for could be with the dead. After hundreds of years’ development, now they have become a very popular means of decoration among country folk, especially women.

It is easy to learn about cutting a piece of paper but very difficult to master it with perfection. Beginners need only a knife and paper. For craftsmen (手艺人), they need knives and gravers of various types to make complicated (复杂的) patterns. For complicated patterns, people first paste the pattern on the paper, and then use various kinds of knives to make it. No mistake can be made during the process otherwise the work would fail.

Paper-cutting covers nearly all topics, from flowers, birds, animals, legendary people, figures in classic novels, to types of facial make-up in Beijing Opera. Paper-cutting has various styles in different parts of China.

In the past, women living in the countryside gathered in their free time to make paper-cutting, which was a way to judge their skillfulness. As society develops, fewer and fewer still regard it as a profession. At present, there are factories and associations for paper-cutting in China. Exhibitions and exchanges are held regularly, and books of this kind are published. Paper-cutting has changed from decoration to a kind of art. At the same time, paper-cutting also appears in cartoons, on stage, in magazines or in TV series.

语篇解读：本文介绍了我国的传统艺术——剪纸的起源、种类和发展。 1．What is the passage mainly about? A．Ancient religious ceremonies. B．A special kind of art form in China. C．Decoration of festivals in ancient China. D．Animals made of paper.

解析：选B 主旨大意题。纵观全文，文章介绍了剪纸的起源、种类、发展等内容，故答案为B项。

2．Why did ancient people burn paper animals or people on the funerals? A．They wanted to give the dead warmth. B．They wanted the dead to have enough food. C．They wanted them to go with the dead.

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D．They wanted the dead to use them as decoration.

解析：选C 细节理解题。由第一段第四句可知，人们这样做的目的是希望剪纸所代表的动物和人能够陪伴去世的人。

3．If a mistake is made during the process，________. A．you have to correct it after you finish the work B．you’d better use some kind of knife to correct it C．all your work will be wasted D．it doesn’t affect the result

解析：选C 细节理解题。由第二段最后一句可知，剪纸过程中不能出错，否则将前功尽弃，故答案为C项。

4．What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．More and more people regard paper-cutting as a profession. B．Paper-cutting is in danger of disappearing in the future. C．Paper-cutting is a way to judge a woman’s skill. D．As a kind of art, paper-cutting is still popular today.

解析：选D 推理判断题。由文章最后两句可知，剪纸已经发展成为一种艺术，并出现在动画、舞台、杂志和电视剧里，故答案为D项。

B

A painting by Chinese artist Qi Baishi set a record for modern art and calligraphy (书法) on the mainland when it sold for 425.5 million yuan at an auction (拍卖) on May 22. The sale was a milestone (里程碑) in the auction of modern and contemporary (同一时代的) artworks.

The price meant its value had risen more than 2,000 percent in six years. The work, Eagle standing on pine tree with four­character couplet (对联), measures about 2.6 metres by 1 metre. It was the second highest price paid for an artwork on the mainland. A Song dynasty work by Huang Tingjian was sold for 436.8 million yuan in 2010. Qi’s painting was

finished in 1946 when Qi was 86, and was his largest work. With a starting price of 88 million yuan, it attracted nearly 50 bids (出价) in half an hour. Shanghai businessman Liu Yiqian said that the work had belonged to him and had cost less than 20 million yuan in 2005. The auction company said the work was brought back to the mainland after being bought from a private owner in San Francisco six years ago.

China ranked first in global art sales last year, ahead of the United States and Britain. Four Chinese artists were among the top 10 in worldwide sales: Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong and Fu Baoshi. Qi’s works ranked second in sales to Pablo Picasso’s last year.

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Qi was born into a peasant family in Hunan in 1864. He taught himself to paint and focused on nature including plants, insects, birds and fish. He is mostly well­known for his paintings of shrimps. In 1953, he was elected president of the Association of Chinese Artists. He died in Beijing in 1957.

语篇解读：齐白石的《松柏高立图·篆书四言联》被一买家以4.255亿元买走，在大陆创下了近现代艺术品拍卖新纪录。

5．What’s the best title of the text? A．Qi Baishi’s Painting Was Discovered B．Qi Baishi’s Painting Was Brought Back C．Qi Baishi’s Painting Sets an Auction Record D．The Value of Qi Baishi’s Painting Is on the Increase

解析：选C 标题归纳题。文章第一段点明主题：齐白石的画作创下近现代艺术品拍卖新纪录。

6．Whose artwork sold for the highest price on the mainland? A．Qi Baishi’s. C．Xu Beihong’s.

B．Huang Tingjian’s. D．Zhang Daqian’s.

解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第二段中第三、四句可知：黄庭坚的一幅作品在大陆获得最高价。

7．The auction price of Qi’s painting was ________ million yuan higher than the starting price in the auction.

A．337.5 C．50

B．348.8 D．11.3

解析：选A 细节理解题。第一段指出，在拍卖会上齐白石的这幅画最终的拍卖价是425.5 million yuan，第二段第六句指出，拍卖会上它的起拍价是88 million yuan，故正确答案为425.5－88＝337.5，答案为A。

8．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Qi finished the painting when he was young. B．The painting was once stolen by an American.

C．The owner of this painting Liu Yiqian gained a lot of money. D．Pablo Picasso’s works ranked second in sales to Qi’s last year.

解析：选C 推理判断题。根据第二段中“Shanghai businessman Liu Yiqian ... cost less than 20 million yuan in 2005.”可知，这幅画的主人在2005年以不到2千万的价格购买了齐白石的这幅画，现在卖得如此高的价格，由此可知：齐白石的这幅画作的拍卖使他赚了许多钱。

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C

At nearly 60, one might start planning for the life after retirement (退休). But not Katrine Haynes. The grandmother of 11 thought there was no better time than her late 50s to fulfill her dream of becoming a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant.

Haynes is now 59 years old. She became a ticketing agent (票务代理) for the airline in her early twenties. After working as a ticketing agent for the airline for about ten years, she wanted to change her job. But it was hard for her back then as she had a family to support. She was afraid of losing her job. After all, the pay was good and it wasn’t easy to become a flight attendant.

27 years later, her children had their own families and she no longer needed to worry about them. So she thought it was the right time for her to make a change. Though she is certainly on the older side when it comes to the airline’s staff, it didn’t deter her. After a long interview, she got the job after beating out around 2,000 other applicants (申请者)．

Haynes has now been part of the sky crew for over a year and seems to be having a ball. A UK-based spokesperson for the airline said Haynes had already received at least three marriage proposals (求婚). “The older customers really like to have someone of their own age on board，” the spokesperson told The Huffington Post. In fact, the airline has quite a lot of older flight attendants — either people who have been with the airline for quite a while, or people like Katrine Haynes who had had different jobs for a long time and decided to follow their dreams.

语篇解读：Katrine Haynes在58岁时终于实现了自己多年的梦想，成为了一名空乘。她的故事告诉我们：不管年龄多大，我们都可以追求自己的梦想。

9．What did Katrine Haynes decide to do in her late 50s? A．To learn to fly an airplane. B．To prepare for her retirement. C．To find a job to support the family. D．To try to become a flight attendant.

解析：选D 细节理解题。根据文章第一段的最后一句可知，即将步入花甲之年的Katrine Haynes想要实现自己成为一名空姐的梦想。

10．What does the underlined word “deter” in Para. 3 probably mean? A．Support. C．Refuse.

B．Stop. D．Change.

解析：选B 词义猜测题。根据划线词前面的内容可知，尽管Katrine Haynes的年龄在空乘这个行业算是很大了，但这并没有“阻止”她实现自己的梦想。

11．What does Katrine Haynes’s story mainly show?

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A．One is never too old to learn. B．Where there is will, there is a way. C．It’s never too old to go for a dream. D．The older we are, the more useful we are.

解析：选C 细节理解题。根据文章内容可知，即将步入花甲之年的Katrine Haynes实现了自己成为一名空乘的梦想。她的故事告诉我们：不管年龄多大，我们都可以追求自己的梦想。

Ⅱ.阅读七选五

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

__1__ Home can be a great place for children to study. It’s important to provide a workspace of their own where they can read books or just write a letter to their friends.

•Location (位置)

__2__ Kitchen and dining room are not so well suited for regular study, since books and pens get in the way of the day-to-day use of those areas. Set up a place where a child can settle in and leave papers and pens at hand without having to clear everything away each night. For a child that likes being alone, set aside a corner of his bedroom, but keep it separate from things like games, music and other hobbies not related to studying.

•Keeping Things in Order

Parents should encourage their child to spread out, but to leave it neat and orderly when he isn’t using his workspace. Ownership is very important for self-respect. __3__ The workplace should be personal, but not another part of the playroom.

•__4__

Encourage the whole family to help build a supportive environment that children need for success in school. Give them a good example of how to deal with problems, how to manage time and get things done in the right way. __5__ Study will be more enjoyable and effective when supported by the whole family.

A．Attitude Is Everything

B．Bring Organization into Your Home C．Here are several ways to choose a location. D．Building a Good Home Learning Environment

E．Hold a can-do attitude and your child will follow your example.

F．Setting up a space in a common area of your home can be a good idea for children. G．A child who learns to organize his space will carry organization into every corner of his life.

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语篇解读：本文讲述了家长怎样在家中为孩子提供学习的空间。

1．选D 从第一段可以归纳出标题。第一段和最后一段都提到家是学习的好场所，鼓励家长为孩子创造良好的学习环境，故选D。

2．选F 由第二段的内容可总结出本段是提供建议，选择家中适合的位置有利于孩子学习。

3．选G 第三段主要是建议要井井有条，所以让孩子学会安排自己的生活空间会让他的人生变得井然有序，故选G。

4．选A 本段说明了对待学习的态度问题，故选A。

5．选E 此处要选择与上下文衔接紧密的句子，E项内容最符合。