广东省茂名市高新中学2024-2025学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题（PDF版无答案）

茂名市高新中学20242025学年度第二学期期中考试 the months of August and September.Nicolaes Jonghelinck,a merchant banker 高二英语 and art collector from Antwerp,commissioned this painting.The painting has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1919. (满分：130分时间：120分钟) Guernica Guernica,a large black-and-white oil painting,was painted by the Cubist 第一部分阅读（共两节，满分50分） Spanish painter,Pablo Picasso in 1937.The title Guernica'refers to the city that 第一节阅读理解（共15小题：每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War.The painting depicts the 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并 horrors of war and as a result.has come to be an anti-war symbol and a reminder of the 在答题卡上将该项涂黑， tragedies of war.Today,the painting is housed at the Musco Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. 1.Which of the following paintings was produced earliest The following 4 famous paintings-from Jan van Eyck's portrait to Pablo A.Guernica. B.The Arnolfini Portrait. Picasso's masterpiece-have stood the test of time. C.The Starry Night. D.The Harvesters. The Amolfini Portrait 2.Who created the painting describing the harvest seasons Jan van Eyck's Amolfini Portrait.an oil painting on wood produced in 1434,in A Pieter Bruegel the Elder.B.Vincent van Gogh. which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her, C.Jan van Eyck. D.Pablo Picasso. is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery,London.This painting 3.What do we know about the painting The Starry Night is as visually interesting as it is famed.It is also an informative document on fifteeoth A.It was painted on wood in oils. -century society,through van Eyck's heavy use of symbolism-while husbands went B It described the painter's life in hospital. out to engage in business,wives concerned themselves with domestic duties. C.It wasn't widely recogn zed before 1941. The Starry Night D.It was given away to the museum by a collector. Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night,oil on canvas ()a moderately B abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside vil- China's popular show Chinese Poetry Conference has not only received a lage,during his 12-month stay at the mental hospital near Saint -Remy-de- warm welcome from audiences for its cultural knowledge and ancient wisdom, Provence,France between 1889 and 1890.When the Museum of Modem Art in but also become a stage and platform for cultural excnanges. New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941,it was not Cambodian Princess Jenna Norodom appeared on the latest episode of Chinese Poetry well known,but it has since become one of van Gogh's most famous works. Conference on China Central TV on Saturday and shared her knowledge about China's The Harvesters ancient poems.She said that China and Cambodia have an unbreakable bond of friendship The Harvesters is an ... ...