2015-2016学年高中英语测试试卷20151228.doc

绝密★启用前 2015-2016学年高中英语测试试卷 ———试卷副标题 考试范围：xxx；考试时间：100分钟；命题人：xxx 题号 一 二 三 四 五 总分 得分 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 第I卷（选择题） 请修改第I卷的文字说明 评卷人 得分 一、阅读理解 1. Grandma Moses is among the most celebrated twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she had barely started painting before she was in her seventies. As she once said of herself: “ I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more productive old age. She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State. At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty-seven, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927. Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery(刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market, and were soon spotted by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930’s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals(画) of the rural life she had known for so long, with a marvelous sense of color and form. “ I think real hard till I think of something real pretty, and then I paint it,” she said. 1. According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to _____. A. decorate(装饰) her home B. keep active C. improve her salary D. gain an international award 2. From Grandma Moses’ description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was_______ A. independent B. shy C. wealthy D. unhealthy 3. Grandma Mo