
贵州省六盘水市2025届高三上学期第二次诊断性检测英语试卷 学校:_____姓名:_____班级:_____考号:_____ 一、阅读理解 The Best Art Shows To Visit Lost Gardens of London 23 October 2024 to 23 December 2024 The new exhibition will reveal the secret history of some of London’s most attractive forgotten gardens. Thousands of gardens have disappeared across London over the past 500 years ranging from princely private botanical gardens to the ecological parks of the 20th century. A wide range of paintings, photographs and maps will bring these lost spaces to life. The Garden Museum, 5 Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE17LB. Silk Roads 26 September 2024 to 23 February 2025 A new exhibition at the British museum will challenge the concept of the Silk Roads as a simple history of trade between East and West. Rather than a single trade route the Silk Roads were made up of overlapping networks linking communities across Asia, Africa and Europe demonstrated by more than 300 objects at this exhibition. The British Museum, London WC1B3DG. When Other Worlds Whisper 20 to 26 December 2024 This display features the works by Rosie Emerson, an experimental printmaker who draws from the history of theater and ecology to create rich, extraordinary scenes on paper. Her exhibition is inspired by the grottoes (石窟) of luxury nobles, the reflection of microscopic life, the mysterious patterns of animals, like coral and the secret draws of Victorian cabinets. The Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE18XZ. The Dog Walk 26 November to 16 December 2024 By the children’s author and illustrator (插画师) Catherine Rayner comes her second show focusing on dogs. The range of work on display will be using a variety of materials, from pencil to sandpaper and cotton wool on board and paper. For Catherine, there is a real pleasure in painting combinations of dogs of varying shapes and sizes. Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford OX27JL. 1. Where will you go if you are interested in ancient gardens A.The Garden Museum. B.The British Museum. C.The Hayward Gallery. D.Sarah Wiseman Gallery. 2. What is Silk Roads mainly intended for A.Introducing the trade history. B.Showing the trade route. C.Displaying objects for sale. D.Emphasizing its significance. 3. What do Emerson and Rayner have in common A.They bring something lost to life. B.They gain inspiration from history. C.They create works about dogs. D.They are both female artists. Maya Merhige is making major waves in swimming. She is now the third-youngest person to complete an athletic challenge known as the Triple Crown. At the age of 16, she swam 23 miles across the English Channel in the UK with a time of 11 hours, 39 minutes. Merhige had already completed the other two Triple Crown swims. At age 14, with a time of 10 hours, 48 minutes, she became the youngest female to swim the 20-mile Catalina Channel in California. The next year, she completed the 20 Bridges swim in New York City, a distance of 28.5 miles, in 8 hours, 43 minutes. O ... ...
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