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1、2022年高考英语一轮复习 考点规范练26 Unit 1 Art 新人教版选修6.阅读理解Away with wordsThe Telegraph,an online news service,has teamed up with Saga,which provides products and services only for the over 50s,to hold a new petition to find the best travel writer.Three lucky winners will win a master class with two top Telegraph
2、 travel writers before traveling the world with Saga on one of three holidays of great fort and pleasure.To enter,all you need to do is tell us something mysterious and wonderful about the world of travela favorite memory,a humorous tale,an unforgettable occasion or a sight worth writing about.What
3、we are looking forYou must be able to read not only those signs that help you find your way around but the ones that tell you how the locals tick.You must,in the words of Paul Theroux,an American travel writer,“describe exactly what you see and give it life with your imagination”.In this petition,yo
4、u can do that in anything from 150 words to 500,but they should be your words,and fresh ones.We do expect you not to hide the truth or the facts about your experience.Beyond that,you can make the most of the freedom travel writing gives you.Youll be editor as well as writer,so ensure those eyes are
5、equally fresh when you check and recheck what youve written.We will make allowances for the occasional mistake,such as you have “fell” into a river.But we wont put up with mistakes every few lines.Terms & conditionspetitors must be aged 50 years or older.The judging process is divided into two stage
6、s:entries will be hosted on the website for one month.The top 20 articles will then be selected by public vote.The top three winners will be chosen by three judges.The closing date for entries is August 15.1.The prizes for winners include .A.three wonderful holidaysB.the publication of their worksC.
7、a chance to learn from excellent writersD.an opportunity to work in the Telegraph2.Apart from writing ability,the petitors need to be .A.brave and creativeB.honest and carefulC.friendly and humorousD.reliable and determined3.The final winners will be selected by .A.the publicB.three chosen judgesC.P
8、aul TherouxD.two top Telegraph travel writers4.What type of writing is this text?A.A travel guide.B.A writing guide.C.An announcement.D.An essay.BRenaissance is a French word.It means rebirth.Its a strange name for a period of history.What was it that was reborn during the Renaissance?To answer this
9、 question,we need to look back at the time of the Roman Empire.At this time Roman artists,scientists and writers influenced by Greek ideas were the worlds most advanced.They had bee skilled observers of the natural world around them,and had bee experts in studying animals,plants,the human body or th
10、e stars and planets.They wrote down their ideas about what they saw,and based their theories about the world on their observations.During the fourth and fifth centuries the Roman Empire slowly broke down.Many of the Romans art and sculptures were destroyed and some manuscripts(原稿) were lost as well.
11、But most importantly,some of the ancient attitudes were lost.A questioning approach to the world was replaced by an unquestioning one.Why did this happen?One reason was to do with the influence of the Christian Church.Through the thousand years following the fall of the Roman Empire,the Church contr
12、olled many aspects of life including education and learning.The Church ran all the universities and thought that the aim of a university should be to teach old ideas more clearly,not to introduce new ones.The scholars in the universities were expected to study God and heaven from the Bible and ancie
13、nt books,rather than the world around them.Take medicine,for example.The main textbook for doctors had been written by a Greek doctor called Galen more than a thousand years earlier.But when Roger Bacon,a thirteenth-century priest(牧师),said that a new approach to medicine was neededdoctors should do
14、their own original research instead of reading writers from the past such as Galenthe Church put him in prison.By the time of the fourteenth century,however,some parts of the Christian Church were being less strict about their ideas and there was a new state of mind among artists,doctors and scienti
15、sts.People wanted to find out more about the world by studying it.This attitude of investigation had been mon in classical scholars,and it was reborn during the Renaissance.5.We know from the text that scientists at the time of the Roman Empire believed in .A.their panions observationsB.what they sa
16、w with their own eyesC.what they learned from the GreeksD.the most advanced theories at that time6.We can infer that students in the Church-controlled universities might .A.have good memoriesB.change their beliefsC.be lacking in creativityD.be interested in astronomy7.Roger Bacon was put in prison because he .A.gave up being a priestB.challenged th
