2023届湖南省常德市高三下学期3月模拟考试英语试题 .pdf

2023 届湖南省常德市高三下学期 3 月模拟考试英语试题 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、阅读理解 It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Picasso. The Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to the boundless possibilities of the human form. Even those unfamiliar with the modern art history can likely identify a few of his best-known paintings, The Old Guitarist Completed: Late 1903 to early 1904 Where to see it: Art Institute of Chicago The Old Guitarist has to be one of the most sorrowful paintings to ever capture the rt world’s imagination. The figure depicted (描绘) thin and cross-legged appears exhausted as he sits over his brown guitar. Garcon a la Pipe Completed: 1905 Where to see it: Private collection With Garcon a la Pipe (Boy With a Pipe), we move from Picasso’s blue period to the more lively rose period. And while the figure in the oil-on-canvas portrait is clothed in blue, the background features happier shades of ochre and pink. Girl Before a Mirror Completed: 1932 Where to see it: Museum of Modern Art (New York) If there’s a single painting that screams Picasso, this might be the one. Girl Before a Mirror is alive with color, pathos and charming shapes that take cubism to its extremes. Picasso said he preferred this painting to any of the others, according to MOMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr Jr. Guernica Completed: 1937 Where to see it: Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid) Guernica is Picasso’s best-known work. Its depiction of an aerial bombing attack on the Basque town of Guemnica in April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, was a visual prelude 试卷第 1 页，共 10 页 (序曲) to coming violent act of World War II. The muted tones of gray further emphasize the shapes of humans, their arms outstretched in extreme pain. Guernica has become one of the most recogni