2017-2018学年人教版高中英语选修六习题：第一单元检测 Word版含答案.docVIP

第一单元检测 (时间:90分钟　满分:120分) 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共12小题;每小题2.5分,满分30分) 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。 A No artist has affected modern art more than Pablo Picasso.The thousands of masterpieces he had created changed the way people thought about art.Picasso was perhaps the most talented and successful artist who ever lived. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in 1881 in a small town on the southern coast of Spain.His father was a painter who taught art.Picasso showed exceptional talent at an early age and,by the time he was in his teens,painted better than his father or any of the local art teachers.At sixteen,Picasso was sent to the Royal Academy of Madrid,where students drew from plaster casts and copied works of the old masters.Picasso felt these assignments were pointless and began to work on his own.Picasso?s father soon became angry with his son?s rebellious behaviour,long hair,and strange clothes.He believed that Picasso was wasting his talent and scolded him,“Why don?t you cut your hair and paint sensibly?” In 1900,Picasso left for Paris—then the center of the art world.He lived in a cold,run-down building,painting constantly,sometimes surviving for days on only a piece of bread.During these years,his art reflected his dismal(凄凉的)surroundings.Homeless outcasts were the subject of many of his fairly realistic early paintings.After seeing African masks and sculptures,his works became more simplified and angular(有角的)leading up to the revolutionary new style known as Cubism(立体主义). Picasso didn?t sell many of his works during these early years.On May 8,1995,Picasso?s AngelFernanadezdeSoto was sold at auction for $29 million.The next day BluePeriod,one of his later works,sold for $5 million.But he worked continuously,always experimenting with different styles of painting.Though Picasso lived to be ninety-two and became the most famous artist in the world,he spoke of his youthful days in Paris as “the happiest time of my life”. 1This passage mainly discusses 　　　.? A.Picas