二、(2025·南京市建邺区期末)完形填空。(15 分)
Do you play an instrument? Have you ever made one? Terje Isungset can answer "Yes" to both 1 . Known as the 2 of Ice Music, Terje Isungset makes instruments out of something cool—ice! And he needs low temperatures to keep his instruments in good 3 .
He doesn't use just any 4 things. "Surely you can get perfect ice from factories. But it won't have any beautiful sounds," Isungset says. He gets all of his ice from the wild. "It's 5 that decides the sound of the instrument," he says.
Isungset got the idea for ice music more than 20 years ago. "I was asked to do a concert in a frozen waterfall," he says. "There were no books to read about, and there was 6 on the internet," he says. "So I had to 7 everything by myself. I tried with different shapes and sizes of ice blocks. I spent hours shaping the ice, improving my designs until I was happy with the results."
Several years ago, Isungset helped start the Ice Music Festival Norway in Europe. It is 8 in February every year. "As you can imagine, there is a lot of work to do for an ice concert," Isungset says. "We come to a place, we 9 the ice, and then we build the venue(场地) with it."
Some of Isungset's instruments are based on common ones, 10 others are dreamt up. "For the festival, I have a goal of trying to invent a new instrument every year," he says.
What happens when the show is over? "We give everything back to nature," Isungset says.
()1. A. suggestions
B. examples
C. questions
D. problems
()2. A. director
B. pioneer
C. dancer
D. witness
()3. A. taste
B. spirit
C. health
D. condition
()4. A. special
B. shiny
C. frozen
D. fresh
()5. A. space
B. company
C. society
D. nature
()6. A. something
B. nothing
C. everything
D. anything
()7. A. give up
B. tidy up
C. bring up
D. make up
()8. A. held
B. found
C. invented
D. accepted
()9. A. buy
B. balance
C. collect
D. save
()10. A. while
B. so
C. because
D. when

三、阅读理解。（18 分）
A
Qinqiang opera is one of the earliest forms of opera in China. It started from the ancient folk songs and dances of the Han people in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. According to historical records, the local opera dates all the way back to the Qin Dynasty. Qinqiang opera shows the daily lives and feelings of ancient Chinese people. In 2006, Qinqiang opera was added to China's National Intangible Heritage List.
Hou Yan, 48, the master of Qinqiang opera, started learning it from her mother when she was 4 years old. Training in the basic skills of Qinqiang opera is very challenging. In 1985, Hou studied at an art school in Ningxia, where teachers were very strict with students. Leg stretching, waist bending and somersaults（翻筋斗） were just some of her daily training routines. Her hard work paid off. Hou became a performer with a troupe at the age of 16.
But since 1993, the sweeping trend of pop and Western music has hit Qinqiang opera hard. The troupe was closed and Hou had no choice but to leave the opera stage she loved.
After 1995, however, China has made great efforts to develop its traditional culture. Hou returned to the stage in 2000 and devoted herself to the opera form. "I knew I'd planted my roots on the opera stage," said Hou. Now, Hou's team presents hundreds of Qinqiang opera performances every year in the towns and villages of Ningxia. The average age of Hou's opera team is 30. In 2021, they staged about 150 school performances.
"As we become more confident about our culture, more young people take traditional culture as a fashionable trend and become promoters of our own culture," says Hou.
()1. Why does the writer mention Hou Yan's daily training in Paragraph 2?
A. To explain why Hou Yan left the opera stage in the 1990s.
B. To prove the art school in Ningxia was popular at that time.
C. To show how difficult it is to master Qinqiang opera's basic skills.
D. To express that Qinqiang opera's basic skills are mainly for the young.
()2. 新考法 学科融合 Which of the following shows the development of Qinqiang opera?

()3. What does Hou Yan's team's work show about the inheritance of Qinqiang opera?
A. Qinqiang opera's inheritance needs young people's efforts.
B. Government's support is the key to Qinqiang opera's survival.
C. Western music doesn't have much influence on Qinqiang opera.
D. School shows get more attention than village shows for Qinqiang opera.
()4. What can we learn from Hou Yan's words in the last paragraph?
A. Traditional art can be promoted if it follows Western music.
B. Traditional culture should be considered as a fashion for fun.
C. Cultural confidence can lead to promoting traditional culture.
D. Culture promoting needs support from people around the world.