《2025年卓越英语九年级上册译林版》

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A
Imagine you choose to join World Book Day Book Club. Now you are reading a book on art for children.
About art
Art is a vast subject, including all kinds of pictures and sculptures. This book introduces 32 works by some of the world’s most famous artists. This is only a small selection, but it reveals(揭示) huge differences in what artists do.
Why make art?
Artists make art for many reasons. Sometimes, they just want to create something beautiful. But hundreds of years ago—when many people couldn’t read—paintings were often designed to illustrate stories.
Very grand paintings were usually made to order, for rich clients who wanted to impress people. More recently, artists have begun to paint to express their own feelings or explore ideas.
About this book
The pictures reproduced in this book were painted over the last 500 years. They are arranged(排列) in order of date, so you can see how ideas about art have changed over time. If you would like to see more art, there is lots on the Internet—just follow the links recommended throughout the book. If you can, visit an art gallery too, so you can experience seeing the “real thing”.
(D)1. Why are the works introduced in the book?
A. To offer readers all kinds of pictures and sculptures.
B. To share every famous artist’s life story with readers.
C. To introduce a number of works from an artist to readers.
D. To tell readers huge differences in what artists do.
(C)2. The works in the book are arranged in order of ______.
A. size B. space C. time D. importance
(A)3. The passage above mainly ______.
A. gives an introduction to the book
B. shows the size of each part in the book
C. shows the number of the artists in the book
D. gives the reasons to order paintings in the book

答案： 1.D 2.C 3.A

B

This painting is called The Fighting Temeraire. Temeraire is the name of the big, old sailing ship that you can see on the left of the picture. People chose this picture to be the greatest painting in Britain.
J. M. W. Turner painted it in 1839. It shows the old sailing ship, the Temeraire, on the River Thames near London. There’s a small tugboat pulling the old ship. It’s in fact taking the Temeraire on its last journey. The old ship is going to the breaker’s yard. In the background we can see the sun setting.
The picture, however, is more than just a painting of two boats in the evening. The artist wanted to show the end of an era(时代). The time of the beautiful, old sailing ships is coming to an end. That’s why we see this happening at sunset. In the little, brown tugboat we can see the new industrial era starting. The tugboat is small and dark and it’s making a lot of smoke, but it’s very strong, because it’s pulling the much bigger ship.
Turner watched the Temeraire taking its last journey up the Thames, but he changed some of the details. He painted the old ship white and gold so that it looks like a ghost. In fact, the real ship was black and yellow. We also see the sun setting behind the ship, but in fact, the ship travelled towards the sunset. However, Turner wanted to show the sun setting on the time of the beautiful old sailing ships.
Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire when he was quite old, so perhaps he wanted to show the sun setting on his own life, too. He loved the painting and he never sold it. You can see it today in the National Gallery in London.
(B)4. The Fighting Temeraire ______.
A. is the name of a big sailing ship
B. was thought the best painting in Britain
C. shows two nice new ships
D. was painted by a famous young artist
(C)5. The old ship was pulled to the yard ______.
A. to be painted new B. to be repaired C. to be broken up D. to be sold
(A)6. What does the tugboat stand for according to the passage?
A. The new industrial era. B. The beautiful old era.
C. The painter’s own life. D. The white and gold ghost.
(C)7. The following sentence would best be placed at the beginning of ______.
The painting shows a real event.
A. Paragraph 2 B. Paragraph 3 C. Paragraph 4 D. Paragraph 5
(D)8. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?
A. The color of the real sailing ship was white and gold.
B. In the painting the sailing ship was going towards the sunset.
C. Finally Turner sold this painting because he didn’t like it.
D. Today the painting is kept in the National Gallery in London.

答案： 4.B 5.C 6.A 7.C 8.D