福建省福州第一中学2023-2024学年高三上学期开学考试英语试卷

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There are plenty of exciting destinations with low prices. Let’s look at three of the best.

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. The city is famous for its cafés. There are several

good ones to choose from, but you must try Gerbeaud. Finally,

you can’t leave the city

without visiting one of its amazing Turkish baths. Some of them date back to the 16th century.

The Hotel Gellért has a wonderful complex open to the general public, and the Széchenyi

Baths are the largest in Europe. The baths in the Városliget (the City Park), which you can

enter from Heroes’ Square, are a UNESCO World Heritage site and another place you must

see.

Bucharest

Once you are in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, you should visit Manuc’s Inn, which is a

19th-century caravanserai (商队客店). It’s located in the Lipscani District (the heart of the

city), and it’s a journey back in time to when Bucharest was an important trading centre. It’s

also a great place to have lunch and a drink. Classical architecture is everywhere, of course,

and the Casa Presei Libere (The House of the Free Press) is a good example of this.

Sofia

From Bucharest, it’s only 300 kilometres to Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. Sofia is an

ancient place, and parts of the city walls date back to the 7th century BCE and can still be

seen. You should find time for the Boyana Church. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site and

has amazing wall paintings dating back to 1259. You should also take a trip out of the city to

explore the Vitosha, a wonderful place for skiing in winter.

So, we hope we’ve given you a few ideas of places to spend your holiday.

1．What can we learn about Manuc’s Inn?

A．It is far from Bucharest.

B．It is of superior quality.

C．It is a trading centre now.

D．It is of special historic interest. 试卷第2页，共12页 2．What do Széchenyi Baths and Boyana Church have in common?

A．They are a good size.

B．They are only open to locals.

C．They are in Budapest’s City Park.

D．They are UNESCO World Heritage sites.

3．Where should you go if you are a ski lover?

A．Vitosha.

B．Gerbeaud.

C．Városliget.

D．Casa Presei Libere.

Horace was born in 65 BCE, in the town of Venusia in Apulia, an area in Southern Italy.

His father was a freedman and small landowner; historians disagree on whether or not he had

ever been a slave. The Roman historian Suetonius wrote that his

father might have been a

“dealer in salted foods”. Though not quite rich, his father spent considerable amounts of

money on Horace’s schooling and sent him to the finest school in Rome. Later, the son was

sent to Athens to study Greek.

It was while Horace was in Athens that he joined the army of Marcus Junius Brutus

against Octavian, who was the future Augustus and first Roman emperor. Brutus’ forces

eventually lost at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BCE. As a result of the defeat, his military career

was over and he lost his family’s property.

Augustus pardoned his enemies and Horace returned to Rome, where he got a position

as a clerk in the government. It was at this time that he wrote his first series of poems,

something that brought him into contact with Virgil and Varius Rufus. The two celebrated

poets introduced him to Gaius Maecenas, a wealthy supporter of young poets, who would

have a powerful effect on his life. He was not only an author himself but a personal friend and

advisor to Augustus, and through him, Horace would meet the emperor. Maecenas soon

recognized the young poet’s outstanding gift and gave him a farm near Rome at Tivoli, a

place where Horace wrote his extraordinary poems in peace.

In 23 BCE he published three books of Odes in which poems celebrated Rome at the age

of Augustus. Horace said the poems were modeled after the great Greek poets, and he

believed Rome had to recognize that the Greeks were better in all intellectual (智力的) and 试卷第3页，共12页 cultural fields.

In the final years of his life, he wrote Ars Poetica, a far-reaching work on the art

of

writing poetry. He eventually became one of Rome’s best-loved poets. On November 27, 8

BCE Horace died, two months after his life-long friend Maecenas.

4．What do we know about Horace’s early life?

A．He was a slave as a young child.

B．He sold salted foods with his father.

C．He received a first-class education.

D．He loved poetry under his father’s influence.

5．When did Horace begin his poetic creations according to the text?

A．After he met Augustus.

B．When he studied in Rome.

C．When he worked as a clerk.

D．Before he joined Brutus’ army.

6．What can we say about Gaius Maecenas?

A．He preferred a quiet life in the countryside.

B．He contributed a lot to Horace’s success.

C．He had little knowledge about poetry.

D．He disliked Horace’s poems at first.

7．What was Horace’s attitude toward Greek poetry?