2018-2019人教新目标高中英语选修六课后阅读训练： 一 Unit 1 Period 1 Word版含答案.docVIP

高考资源网， 高考资源网， 高考资源网， 高考资源网， 温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。 课后阅读训练 一 Unit 1　Period 1 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A 　　Watercolor is the oldest paints known. It dates back to the early cave men who discovered they could add life like qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water. 　　Fresco(壁画), one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing paints and water and applying these to wet plaster(灰泥). Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelo’s heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few know that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world. 　　The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century made fresco painting go downhill, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly for doing sketches(草图)or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters put back watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a widely-known love for outdoor and also small private pictures. The softness of watercolor had a remarkably strong attraction for them. 　　The popularity of watercolor continued to grow until the twentieth century. The United States passed England as the center for watercolor, producing such well-known watercolor artists as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. 【语篇概述】本文主要介绍了水彩画的发展历程。 1. The purpose of the passage is to introduce__________. A. the gradual weakness of fresco painting B. oil’s power or influence over watercolor C. the discovery of watercolor in England D. the start and development of watercolor 【解析】选D。主旨大意题。由一、二、四段句首的“Watercolor is the oldest paints known”“. . . is done with watercolor” “The popularity of watercolor continued to grow. . . ”等可推知, 本文主要讲述了水彩画的起源和发展, 故选D。 2. In the 16th and 17th centuries the artists thought__________. A. watercolor was softer, and thus better B. oil pai