“对话”达·芬奇

江西 江海连

文明因交流而精彩，文明因互鉴而丰富。国画作品开展文明对话交流互鉴活动，为推动构建人类命运共同体提供精神力量，不断书写人类文明发展的新华章。

主题语境：人与社会 篇幅：352词 建议用时：7分钟

1It has only been a little over 100 years since oil paintings were introduced to China, which was dominated (在……中占主要地位) by its own traditional paintings. The famous Chinese painter Xu Li's creative practice follows the artistic path of realism.His works have been collected by China's top museums,overseas celebrities and renowned collectors.

2The world today is experiencing great changes in the political and economic areas, a new chapter in which Eastern and Western cultures exchange.Civilizations (文明)are colorful due to exchanges and are enriched due to mutual (相互的) learning. Most of Xu Li's works confirm this fact.Xu Li combines the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings with traditional Chinese landscapes in a single painting, and engages in an artistic dialogue between the East and the West.

3In his work calledDui Hua(Dialogue), the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's 23-year-old sketch(素描)become the landscape on the left in Xu Li's creation.The two cleverly combine to form a landscape with Chinese culture and aesthetic (美学的) interest. The works were collected and displayed in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Italy in 2019. Here, the 500-year gap in time seems to have disappeared, leaving only a fascinating wonderland.

4The oil paintingJia Yuan(Homeland) he created in 2013 was inspired by a subtle mountain village. It shows that Western artistic methods can be absorbed into the ancient Chinese visual language, and the language of Western oil paintings can be used to express Eastern culture meaning.

5In addition, he also created a huge oil paintingXin Hui Huang(New Glory) for the Beijing Daxing International Airport,showing the vitality(生命力)of the new era to important guests entering and leaving the airport.

6As early as the 1990s,Xu Li had inspected the Silk Road many times.While he was shocked by the glorious historical relics created by the collision(碰撞)of Eastern and Western civilizations, the sacred mountains in the snowy plateau, were already deeply in his heart.In his workSnow Mountain,all the scenes are from his life.

Reading Check

1.What can be inferred about Xu Li's works?

A.They are mainly sketches.

B.They are well-known at home and abroad.

C.They're rarely related to Western art.

D.They're mostly about mountains and rivers.

2.What does the underlined part“this fact”in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Cultural exchanges are unnecessary.

B.The world is experiencing political changes.

C.The world is experiencing economic changes.

D.Mutual learning makes civilizations more colorful.

3.Which of the following works was inspired by a mountain village?

A.Dui Hua.

B.Jia Yuan.

C.Xin Hui Huang.

D.Snow Mountain.

4.Where is the text probably from?

A.A culture website.

B.A science magazine.

C.A book review.

D.A business report.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Useful expressions

be introduced to 被介绍到……

oil paintings 油画

be dominated by 被……主导

be collected by 被……收藏

renowned collectors 著名的收藏家

combine...with 把……和……结合在一起

be absorbed into 被融入……

the collision of Eastern and Western civilizations 东方和西方文化的碰撞

Ⅱ.Difficult sentence

Xu Li combines the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings with traditional Chinese landscapes in a single painting, and engages in an artistic dialogue between the East and the West.徐里将列奥纳多·达·芬奇画作中的山水与中国传统风景画结合在一幅画中，使东西方产生了一次艺术性的隔空对话。

【点石成金】该句为一个简单句，and连接两个并列谓语combines和engages。