Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(風(fēng)景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Toomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Lealie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(攝影術(shù)) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient Forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ______.

A.an object for artistic creation

B.a collection of poems

C.an unusual quality

D.a natural scene

Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because ______.

A.they are close in style to works in ancient times

B.they look like works by 19th-century painters

C.they draw attention to common things in life

D.they depend heavily on color photography

What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?

A.It will not be found in future works of art.

B.It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C.It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D.It is lacking in modern words of art.

What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A.They express people’s curiosity about the past.

B.They make people interested in everyday experience.

C.They are considered important for variety in form.

D.They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A.History of the arts.

B.Basic questions of the arts.

C.New developments in the arts.

D.Use of modern technology in the arts.四、寫作(共兩節(jié)，滿分35分)

Jim sold most of his things.He has hardly ___ left in the house.

A.anything                                               B.everything

C.nothing                                                        D.something

Hardly could he_____this amount of work in such a short time.

A.get through               B.get off                      C.get into                            D.get down

—Excuse me sir,where is Room 301?

—Just a minute.I’ll have Bob _______ you to your room.

A.show                        B.shows                       C.to show                     D.showing

Why don’t you just _______ your own business and leave me alone?

A.make                        B.open                         C.consider                    D.mind

They only say such unkind things about you out of ____ envy, because you are ____ success as a writer.

A. the; a       B. the; /       C. /; a     D. /; /

         I really don’t like art, I find his work impressive.

A．As             B．Since

C．If              D．While

  ---It’s a long time since I saw my sister. 

---_______________ her this weekend?

   A. Why not visit                   B. why not to visit

   C. Why not visiting                 D. Why don’t visit

--- Did you tidy your room?

   --- No, I was going to tidy my room but I ______ visitors.

   A. had      B. have   C. have had    D. will have

The doctor recommended that you          swim after eating a large meal.

A  wouldn't    B couldn't     C needn't     D shouldn't