高三阅读词汇训练.doc

第一部分 阅读理解 Passage （1） New Words visual / / adj. 视觉的；视力的 translate / / v. 翻译；解释；转化；转变为 countless / / adj. 无数的, 数不尽的 exceptionally / / adv. 例外地 delight / / n. 乐趣；喜悦；欣喜 motion / / n. 运动; 动作 aspect / / n. 方面 contemporary / / adj. 同时代的；同年龄的; 当代的 reference / / n.（与to连用）提及；涉及；参考；查询 consciously / / adv. 有意识地, 自觉地 Phrases Expressions in one’s heart 在内心深处 make out 理解；看清楚；写 translate ... into 转变，转化；翻译 in motion 在运动（运行） in moonlight （在）月光下 without reference to 与……无关；不论，不顾 direction sb’s attention to 引起某人对……的注意 Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but also he wants it to be something that has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand what he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight that they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and at rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a decaying leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphas