除了课堂上的学习外，平时的积累与练习也是学生提高成绩的重要途径，本文为大家提供了山东省华侨中学2014-2015学年高一上学期英语寒假作业，祝大家寒假愉快。

一.单项填空

1.If you were an artist，what kind of pictures________ you________?

A.would;have painted B.had;painted

C.have;painted D.would;paint

2.They paid famous artists to paint pictures of themselves，their houses and possessions________ their activities and achievements.

A.as long as B.as well as

C.as far as D.as soon as

3.Without the new paints and the new technique，we would not be able to see the many great masterpieces________ this period is famous.

A.for whom B.for that

C.for which D.where

4.The Impressionists were the first painters________ outdoors.

A.work B.to work

C.worked D.working

5.Their paintings were not as detailed as________ of earlier painters.

A.ones B.those C.it D.that

6.Today they are accepted as the beginning of________ we call “modern art”.

A.what B.where C.which D.that

7.There are________ modern art styles，but without the Impressionists，many of these painting styles________.

A.scores of;might not exist

B.two scores of;would not have existed

C.score of;might exist

D.two scores;would have existed

8.The work of art is so________ that the visitors can’t see what the painter meant.

A.absolute B.abstract C.absorbed D.attractive

9.He________ to get out of trouble，but no one would help him.

A.succeeded B.attempted C.managed D.offered

10.On the one hand，we should develop our economy.________，we should protect the environment.

A.On the other hand B.As a matter of fact

C.That is D.In other words

二.阅读理解

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 (风景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th­century Dutch painters to the 19th­century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie，one of the new American realists，continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas 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，Leslie

paints what he actually sees.In his paintings，there is no particular change in emotions and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of colour photography (摄影术) to help both the eyes and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides，all art begs the age­old 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 Cro­Magnon 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.

1.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

2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because________.

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

B.they look like works by 19th­century painters

C.they draw attention to common things in life

D.they depend heavily on colour photography

3.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.

4.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.