海南省文昌市2017学年高二英语下学期期中段考试题（无答案）.docVIP

2016—2017学年度第二学期高二年级英语科段考试题 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分；满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分 听力（略） 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，共30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。 A “Miss James, look! Look what I found!” Kylie held up a book nearly half her size. On the cover there was reprint of a famous painting, a landscape (山水画) that featured a shadowed Cyprus tree and an expanse of stars represented by intense of brushstrokes and vivid colors. Kylie’s excitement reminded Miss James of a time not long ago when she, too, had felt this kind of exhilaration upon coming across a painting not unlike this one. “It’s a Van Gogh,” Penelope had remarked, her breath seeming to escape her as she spoke. The two friends stood silently in front of the gilded (镀金的) framed canvas before them, admiring the thick lines of paint that cure and bent of from towering mountains, and a simple cottage. They moved closer to glimpse every detail of the artwork, the passion and urgency of the painter seeming to spring forward from the image, projecting itself onto the observers before it. There became a quiet understanding between the two that this work had been created by a man tortured (被迫害的), a man who never gave up his desire to paint even though he was starving and unappreciated. How could he have known how well he would be accepted by those who would come after him? It was shocking beauty and tragedy in one. Streams of tears had run down both their faces. Kylie had presented the book to Miss James with a similar respect. She stood next to her teacher as she opened the cover, page after page displaying a variety of art—a field of irises, a pot of sunflowers, a sailing ship along the seashore. Miss James could only think how much she wished she could show Kylie something more than a print. If she could only bring her into her memories. Even still, the child had been fascinated by what she saw before her, and she stared at each painting that passed by. “Can we share this with the class, Miss James?” Kylie as