Unit 3 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading

　　Ⅰ.课文缩写填空

　　We started our trip in Spain and went to Málaga, where Picasso was born. Picasso 1.produced more than 20,000 pieces of art, and he did not just paint, but made 2.sculptures and worked with all kinds of media.After visiting Spain, we went to Paris.In the Louvre Museum is the famous Mona Lisa painting by the 3.Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was also an architect, scientist and engineer. Later we went to the Muse d'Orsay to see the modern works of Claude Monet. His paintings were 4.typical of a style called Impressionism, with which the painter 5.abandons the idea of showing real things.Yesterday we went to Van Gogh Museum.Van Gogh painted about 800 oil paintings, did 1,600 drawings. But the sad thing is that he only sold one painting 6.when he was alive. Today, his paintings are 7.worth upwards of millions of dollars each. Tomorrow we are 8.off to another museum in Amsterdam.

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　The appearance of a rare artistic treasure in Beijing over the weekend resulted in crowds waiting in line for six hours at the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City.

　　The crowds were eager to see Along the River During the Qingming Festival, the best­known scroll painting in Chinese art history, at the Hall of Martial Valor. The work is sometimes referred to as China's Mona Lisa.

　　The scroll painting by Zhang Zeduan (1085－1145), measuring 24.8 centimeters wide and 528.7 centimeters long, depicts a lively and rich landscape in Bianjing -today's Kaifeng in Henan Province.

　　Faced with its huge popularity, the Palace Museum said it would organize another exhibition of the work in 2020, the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City.

　　"With growing public demand for exhibitions of national treasures, waiting in line for hours has become routine，" the museum said in a statement. "For example, in 2002, when the scroll painting was displayed in Shanghai, viewers also waited six hours in line."

　　The work is seldom displayed because of its fragility.

　　Wang Qi said she drove hundreds of kilometres from Hohhot in Inner Mongolia to visit the exhibition, and it took her most of the day to finally see the scroll painting."It was too exhausting, but I still think it was worthwhile，" Wang said.

　　The scroll painting forms part of a special exhibition titled "The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat"，which includes 283 ancient paintings and handwriting masterpieces once recorded in the Qing Dynasty emperors' catalog.

The display is a main event marking the 90th anniversary of the museum's opening to