重庆市第八中学校2023-2024学年高二上学期11月月考英语试题

重庆市第八中学校2023-2024学年高二上学期11月月考英语

试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读理解

Join our Sail Design Competition and Help Us

Clean Ocean Sailing is a voluntary organization whose aim is to clean our coasts and raise awareness about ocean plastic pollution. They have repaired their sailing boat, Annette, to carry out their important mission and she needs a new sail and your help. This new sail will propel (驱动) her over thousands of miles for the next 10 to 15 years. We’re calling on artists with a vision for happy, healthy oceans to submit sail designs for the Clean Ocean Sailing team.

Design Specifications

● Submit a sail design that reimagines a more sustainable future and an ocean free from plastic pollutants. The background color of the sail will be black. The bigger your design, the better it will be! As the sail will only be seen from far away, small details won’t be seen.

● Make sure that there aren’t any important details on the borders of your design.

● This competition is open for anyone to enter — any age and any design capabilities! We are more than happy for designs to be drawn on an A4 piece of paper — just scan and send!

● If the winning design is hand drawn on paper, we will work with you and a designer to create a digitized version of your artwork!

How to enter

Please tag @stroodles straws and @cleanoceansailing, and use #MakeASplash so we can see and share your work! Please submit your artwork by June 30th, 2023, 23:59.

The Prize

A nice box worth £100+ and your design on the sail for 10+ years!

1．What does the Sail Design Competition aim to do?

A．Call on artists to design a sail.B．Seek volunteers to clean the coasts.

C．Hire artists for the Clean Ocean Sailing team.D．Find someone to repair Annette and other boats.

2．What can we learn from the design specifications?

A．Participants must be over 18 years old.B．Black should be used for the background.

C．A digitized version of the artwork is unaccepted.D．Details should be added on the borders of the design.

3．To enter the competition, what should an artist do?

A．Share his design with others.B．Pay £100 to enter the competition.

C．Submit his artwork after June 30th, 2023.D．Use #MakeASplash to get his design seen.

Although the piano keys come in black and white, the music it produces is full of color. Chinese pianist Tian Jiaxin explores creative performances and crossover cooperations with traditional Chinese music, with the hope of bringing the music of the East to the Western world.

Tian attended regular school instead of studying at a music school in her childhood. This enabled her to absorb China’s rich culture and understand the bigger picture later in her pursuit of a career as a professional pianist. “There’s so much to grasp when explaining a piece. What we`re conveying is not only the notes, but the culture behind the music,” Tian said.

As a Chinese pianist, Tian is looking to add more depth to her performances, stressing the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures. “No matter which country I am performing in, I always include Chinese music in my program. With Western pieces, I hope to show the world that a female musician from China can perform the music that they are familiar with and love.” Tian says that she believes her mission is to make China heard on a wider stage.

Tian believes that music is developing over time and that music from different ages has its own unique meaning. “I’ve found that people’s understanding of Chinese music is often limited to certain pieces like Jasmine Flower,” Tian said. “However, there are so many great pieces of Chinese music that are unacquainted outside of China. So, I always try to feature both the time-honored classics of Chinese music and the newly created pieces,” she added.

“Chinese music has the magic to cause resonance(共鸣) with the audience and convey the various and deep culture of Chinese civilization,” Tian said.

4．What can we learn about Tian Jiaxin from the first two paragraphs?

A．She went to music school at a young age.

B．She adapted some well-known Chinese pieces.