(新课标,全国卷Ⅰ)高考英语二轮复习特色专项训练第二十三组.doc

第二十三组(建议用时：35分钟)Ⅰ.阅读理解A (2015·山西大学附中第五次月考)Paper is a cheap and accessible medium that can produce beautiful results.To most peoplek to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago.However, there’s a special minority who takes paper art to the next level，magically turning the plain white or colored paper into some of the most amazing artworks.Check out the following artists and their works! The Danish artist Peter Callesen is famous for his talent in combining the minimalism(极简的) of a white sheet of paper with the complexity of carefully cut and folded paper and uses the two to build out some pleasing works.t Su Blackwell often goes to secondhand bookstores—to look for materials with which she can carve out delicate sculptures.The models look as if they “grow” naturally from the pages of the books.The artist finds inspiration from the book title or a paragraph or picture inside and then spends months carefully slicing each one into an eye-catching paper model.Her old book sculptures sell for up to ￡5，000 each. By carefully folding simple pieces of paper, German artist Simon Schubert creates amazing masterpieces.He turns paper into architectural masterpieces by folding a simple piece of paper to shape the creases(褶痕), and topographic(地形的) maps.Using her vivid imagination and a special knife, ration from nature. 1．According to the passage, paper art ________．________．assage, Jen Stark ________．A．Common and popular. B．Simple and cheap. C．Useless and priceless. D．Numb and meaningless. B (2015·河北衡水中学二模)The earth provides us with almost everything that we need to eat, e use the earth’s resources.Because some of us have more buying power, they end up using more resources than they usually need.At the same time, we also create a great deal of waste and pollution.So we also need to think about how much land we use to deal with that waste.Then two things happen：first；second, urden on the earth and whose lifestyles are not.Because a few people eat up most of the earth