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( ) 1. A. deal B. start C. struggle D. experiment

( ) 2. A. disappointing B. challenging C. exciting D. interesting

( ) 3. A. noisy B. careless C. attentive D. creative

( ) 4. A. annoyed B. bored C. lost D. worried

( ) 5. A. weak B. sensitive C. stressed D. tired

( ) 6. A. lack B. theme C. result D. schedule

( ) 7. A. announced B. demanded C. suggested D. agreed

( ) 8. A. gifts B. prices C. paintings D. events

( ) 9. A. happened B. determined C. managed D. expected

( )10. A. activity B. Internet C. trip D. exhibition

( )11. A. already B. never C. merely D. obviously

( )12. A. useful B. fancy C. suitable D. ordinary

( )13. A. clearly B. directly C. differently D. critically

( )14. A. design B. idea C. plant D. tool

( )15. A. abstract B. amusing C. strange D. practical

三、 阅读理解

In 1973, the artist Marc Chagall made an emotional return to Russian soil. He was 85 years old and

hadn t seen the country of his birth for more than half a century.

“I feel more muscular now,” he said shortly after the trip was over. “It did me good. It refreshed me

for my work. ” The remarkable thing, however, is that despite his advanced age, Chagall never needed

much refreshing. He continued working till his dying day, aged 97.

It was in his later years that his use of intense colour notably advanced. There were two obvious

catalysts(催化剂) for this. One was Chagall s move in 1949 from Paris to the Côte d Azur, where the

colourful landscape, with its green seas and purple fields, left their mark. The other one was Chagall s

work designing stained-glass windows ( 彩 色 玻 璃 窗). Chagall s efforts in stained glass undoubtedly

contributed to his oil-painting practice. The pure passages of yellow, green, orange, purple and white that

divide the canvas(画布) of L envol du peintre into three are a fine example.

Dallmayr suggests in his book Marc Chagall: The Artist as Peacemaker ( 2020) that after living

through two world wars, as well as the horror of the Holocaust, Chagall developed an “artistic vision of

peace”. His work was characterized by a sense of harmony and happiness.

As one of the world s greatest artists, he was never short of speaking invitations, and in a lecture in

1959 he said that “love should be the basis of true politics—it could bring about real peace”.

It s important to stress that Chagall was an artist, not a politician—but the speeches from his latter

years do shed a certain light on his work from that time.

He never stopped innovating, whether in painting or in his embrace and command of new media

entirely. All the while, his art was marked by its warmth, wit and—perhaps especially in later life—the

aim of giving peace a chance.