Unit 1 Art
课时作业
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2020·南昌市重点中学高三年级段考试题) Leila's Hair Museum
Before the invention of photography, people kept memories of loved ones by creating mementos (纪念物) using human hair. In 1986, Leila Cohoon opened a museum in Independence, Missouri, to show her collection of more than 2,000 pieces of hair－based art collected over 30 years. Billed as the only hair museum in the world, it includes more than 600 braided hair wreaths (花环) and 2,000 pieces of jewellery dating back to the mid－1600s. “My museum is filled with other people's families，\\” Leila says. “It tells a story.\\”
International UFO Museum and Research Center
On July 7, 1947, a farmer discovered mysterious metallic debris (金属碎片) in his farm outside Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) originally said it recovered a flying disc. The next day, RAAF changed its words: The object was a weather balloon. Stories of a UFO and a government cover－up spread. Each year, 180,000 people check out the dirt from the UFO crash site, photos, and reports about the Roswell incident.
Museum of Bad Art
Not all art is created equal. After finding an oil painting in the rubbish in 1993—the now classic Lucy in the Field with Flowers—Scott Wilson started collecting bad art. Before long, he showed his finds at the Somerville movie theater. The Museum
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of Bad Art (MOBA) gives the public a first－hand look at some of the world's worst “disaster－pieces\\”. Popular paintings include Mona Lisa, Hollywood Lips, and
Drilling for Eggs. “MOBA is always on the lookout for the best of the worst，\\”
said co－founder Marie Jackson. “But what an artist considers to be bad doesn't always meet our low standards.\\”
Mütter Museum
Welcome to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—home to more than 5,000 brains, bones, and dead bodies! In 1858, Dr Thomas Dent Mütter gave his collection of preserved body parts, and bones to The College of Physicians to improve medical education, which led to the museum's creation in 1863. Today, Mütter Museum is the most famous medical museum in America, housing a wall of bones, and pieces of Albert Einstein's brain.
篇章导读：本文是一篇应用文。文章介绍了美国四个最奇怪的博物馆——莱拉头发博物馆、UFO博物馆、糟糕艺术博物馆和马特博物馆。
1．What is special about Leila's Hair Museum? A．It is full of family stories.
B．It houses the world's greatest photos. C．It holds collections from around the globe. D．It was opened to remember Leila's loved ones.
答案：A 细节理解题。根据题干中的关键词Leila's Hair Museum定位到文章的第一部分。根据该部分中的“‘My museum is filled with other people's families，’Leila says. ‘It tells a story.’”可知，莱拉头发博物馆里满是家庭的故事，故答案是A。
2．What can you find in the Mütter Museum? A．Photos about the Roswell incident. B．Some of Albert Einstein's brain. C．2,000 pieces of jewellery. D．Mona Lisa.
答案：B 细节理解题。根据题干中的关键词Mütter Museum定位到文章的最后一部分。根据该部分最后一句中的“housing a wall of bones, and pieces of Albert Einstein's brain”可知，马特博物馆里收藏有爱因斯坦的大脑碎片，故答案是B。
3．What do the four museums have in common? A．They are newly－founded museums. B．They are unpopular among visitors. C．They are quite unusual.
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D．They are art－centered.
答案：C 推理判断题。通读全文可知，四个博物馆向人们展示的分别是头发、不明飞行物、糟糕的艺术作品以及人的大脑、骨头和尸体。由此可推知，这四个博物馆的共同之处为：它们都是不同寻常的，故答案是C。
(2020·甘肃省会宁一中高三第一次月考)There was a man playing the piano in a bar. He was a good piano player and always performed in this bar. People came in just to hear him play. But one night, a customer told him that he didn't want to hear him just play the piano any more. He wanted him to sing a song.
The man said, “I don't sing.” But the customer was persistent (执着的). He told the bar manager, “I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want that man to sing！” The manager shouted across the room, “If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing！”So he did. He sang a song. A piano player who had never sung in public did so for the first time. And everyone was surprised by his song Mona Lisa. He got lots of applause (掌声) that night.
He had such a talent for singing, but he just had been sitting on his talent for the past years! If without such a chance, he may have lived the rest of his life as a noname piano player in a noname bar. However, now he has become one of the best-known singers in America.
You, too, have skills and abilities. Maybe your “talent” is not as great as the singer above, but it may be better than you think! And with effort, most skills can be improved. So, in your life, you should be brave enough to try doing different things and find out what talents you really have!
篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一个人在酒吧弹钢琴，一天一个顾客非让他
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唱歌。在这样一个偶然的机会，他发现了他唱歌的天赋，后来他成为了一位著名的歌手。
4．Why did the man start to sing? A．Because he wanted to make more money.
B．Because the bar manager said he liked his song.
C．Because the manager asked him to sing at the request of a customer. D．Because he wanted to show everyone that he had a talent for singing. 答案：C 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing！”可知，这个人开始唱歌是因为经理让他应顾客的要求唱歌。故选C。
5．What do you think of the bar manager? A．Humourous. C．Strict.
B．Rude. D．Kind.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据第二段中的“The manager shouted across the room, ‘If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing！’”可知，这位经理是“粗鲁的”。故选B。
6．What can we know from the passage? A．The man didn't get paid at last.
B．The customers were unsatisfied with the song. C．The man became a singer later. D．The manager had to lay the man off.
答案：C 推理判断题。根据第三段最后一句“However, now he has become one of the bestknown singers in America.”可知，这个人后来成了一名歌手。故选C。
7．What can we learn from the last paragraph? A．Some people really have no skills or abilities. B．Sometimes through effort we can know our talents. C．None of us is as great as the singer.
D．No skills can be improved even if you try your best.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“And with effort, most skills can be improved. So, in your life, you should be brave enough to try doing different things and find out what talents you really have！”可知，通过努力我们可以提高我们的能力，通过尝试不同的事情，我们可以发现我们的才能。故选B。
Ⅱ.七选五
(2018·全国卷Ⅲ)Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything
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else in between.
__1__ We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.
“I adore dancing，” says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. “I can't imagine doing anything else with my life.” Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. “Teaching dance is wonderful. __2__ It's great to watch them. For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life.”
__3__ “I can tell you about one young couple，” says Bridges. “They're learning to do traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile. __4__”
So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says，“Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better. __5__ I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I'm alive.”
A．So why do we dance?
B．Dance in the US is everywhere.
C．If you like dancing outdoors, come to America. D．My older students say it makes them feel young. E．I keep practicing even when I'm extremely tired. F．Dancing seems to change their feeling completely. G．They stayed up all night long singing and dancing.
篇章导读：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章主要介绍了作者对跳舞的热爱及跳舞的好处。 1．B 根据后文“We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.”可知，这里是说在美国，到处有人跳舞，故选B。
2．D 根据前一句所述Lester Bridges认为教跳舞是非常好的体验，再根据设空后一句“It's great to watch them.”可知，设空处在解释Lester Bridges对教授舞蹈持积极态度的原因，即从学生的角度进行叙述，唯有D项符合语境，故选D。
3．A 根据第四段中Bridges所说的话可知，此处是通过举例介绍人们跳舞的原因，故选A。
4．F 根据设空处前一句“They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile.”可知应选F，即跳舞似乎完全改变了他们的心情。
5．E 根据文章前后句可知，设空前后句子的主语均为第一人称，且本段叙述同一位舞蹈爱好者跳舞的经历及对跳舞的感受，所以E符合句式特点及语境。
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(全国统考)2021高考英语一轮复习第1编话题四Book6Unit1Art课时作业(含解析)
