天津市河北区2020届高三总复习质量检测(一)(一模)英语试题+Word版含答案

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44. What did the author learn from the cooperation with his father? A. It’s important to make a plan before work. B. Communicate more when there is an argument. C. It’s worthwhile to work with someone close to you.

D. Their cooperation resulted in a better book than the author expected.

C

From amazing modern buildings, like Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, to classic designs, like London’s Westminster Abbey, our world is full of wonderful architecture. Such landmarks give cities character and bring communities together.

With this in mind, the Guardian recently listed their 25 favorite building designs of the 21st century.

Instead of focusing on grand designs, the list emphasizes buildings with creative concepts. Top of the list was London’s Tate Modern. Built on a small budget, the design showed it was OK to be different. The architects changed a 1950s power station into an art museum. They kept many aspects of the original building, simply adding new elements with glass, steel and raw concrete. Its designer, Jacques Herzog, told the Guardian: “We had to keep it raw. We didn’t want to go for charm or add decorative elements or formal details. Poor materials and ugliness are powerful aesthetic (美学的) elements.”

Another museum that followed the restoration principle was the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany. Initially built in 1855, the museum was heavily bombed during World War II. In 1997, planning for the rebuilding project brought it back to life by combining both old and new architecture. When it re-opened in 2009, visitors could see the original Greek-style courtyard and restored wall paintings alongside a modern central stairwell (楼梯井) and glass roof. At the time, The New York Times wrote, “A modern building inhabits the ghost of an old one.”

Apart from these creative Western museums, two Chinese buildings were also included on the Guardian’s list: the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and Beijing National Stadium.

Beijing National Stadium was selected for its special steel design. According to the Guardian, the stadium was built using 42,000 tons of steel, weaving through one another in

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the shape of a bird’s nest and embracing the bowl-shaped seating area. Despite the random appearance of these steel pieces, the stadium is nearly symmetrical (对称的). Due to its complexity, its architects said it presented “brilliant aesthetic and structural challenges”, the New York Post noted. These buildings are loved for their innovative architecture.

According to US architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “Architecture is the triumph (胜利) of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.”

45. What is the purpose of this article?

A. To compare Western and Chinese architecture. B. To show the importance of landmarks to a city. C. To inform readers about popular architecture concepts.

D. To describe innovative building designs recognized by the Guardian. 46. What is true about London’s Tate Modern?

A. It was built on the site of an old bus station. B. It put together different decorative elements. C. Architects used London’s history as inspiration. D. Raw materials were used to create a unique look.

47. What do Tate Modern and the Neues Museum have in common?

A. They both have modern glass roofs.

B. They were both damaged during World War II. C. Their designs combine both old and modern elements. D. Both were first built in the middle of the 19th century.

48. According to the article, what makes Beijing National Stadium unique?

A. Its symmetrical design. B. Its complicated steel design. C. Its bowl-shaped seating area. D. The brilliant design of its main gate.

49. According to the Guardian, what quality do all the designs share?

A. They are creative.

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B. They were expensive. C. They restored old buildings. D. They use steel as the main material.

D

When people learn to play video games, they are learning a new literacy. Of course, this is not the way the word “literacy” is normally used. Traditionally, people think of literacy as the ability to read and write. Why, then, should we think of literacy more broadly? Nowadays, language is not the only important communication system. Images, graphs, diagrams and many other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the idea of different types of “visual literacy” would seem to be an important one. For example, being able to read the images in advertising is one type of visual literacy.

Furthermore, very often today words and images of various sorts are juxtaposed in a variety of ways. In newspapers and magazines as well as in textbooks, images take up more and more of the space alongside words. In fact, in many modern high school and college textbooks, images not only take up more space, they now carry meanings that are independent of the words in the text. If you can’t read these images, you will not be able to understand their meanings from the words in the text as was more usual in the past. Now there are different ways to read different types of texts. Literacy is multiple, then, in the sense that the legal literacy needed for reading law books is not the same as the literacy needed for reading physics texts or cartoon books. And we should not be too quick to dismiss the latter form of literacy. Many cartoon books are full of images that would make a modern literary critic’s heart beat fast and confuse any otherwise normal adult.

Once we see this multiplicity of literacy, we realize that when we think about reading and writing, we have to think beyond print. Reading and writing in any field, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays or cartoon books, are not the only ways of decoding(解密) print. Video games are a new form of art. They will not replace books; they will sit beside them, interact with them, and change them and their role in society in various ways, as, indeed, they are already doing strongly with movies. We have no idea yet how people “read” video games, what meanings they make from them. Still less do we know how they will “read” them in the future.

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50. What is the broad meaning of literacy?

A. The ability to read, write and view. B. The ability to read, listen and play. C. The ability to speak, write and think. D. The ability to listen, speak and think.

51. What does the underlined word “juxtaposed” mean in Paragraph 3?

A. Put together. B. Pulled out. C. Taken away. D. Replaced with. 52. How would cartoon books probably make a modern literary critic feel?

A. Proud.

B. Upset.

C. Grateful.

D. Curious.

53. The author says that video games _______________.

A. are too violent to risk experimenting with for the purposes of understanding literacy B. are unrealistic and should not fall into the same categories as the other texts he describes

C. are not yet entirely understood in terms of literacy, but are already impacting other forms of expression such as filmmaking

D. are irrelevant in academic discussion because no one has yet determined how to explain the ways that people understand them

54. What is the author likely to write about after the last paragraph?

A. A historical explanation of the very first video game and its evolution.

B. A technological definition of video games, how they are made, and how they are played.

C. Examples of the way that some people currently interpret video games and what

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