Nathan Sawaya"s childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he"s been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan"s work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan"s exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I"m proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
小题1:What did Nathan put on his desk at college?| A．The Statue of Liberty. | B．Superman. | | C．His serf-portrait. | D．A Greenwich Village modal. |
小题2:Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?| A．Because he made little money out of a lawyer. | | B．Because he wanted to make toys for the children. | | C．Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks. | | D．Because he was going to work in the museum instead. |
小题3:What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?| A．Nathan"s work. | B．Nathan"s exhibition. | | C．Nathan"s art. | D．Nathan"s self-portrait |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．The Brick Artist | B．The Brick Exhibition | | C．Toy Bricks for Adults | D．The Artist"s Childhood |
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小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A |
短文大意：本文主人公自从五岁时就对积木有很大兴趣，在大学毕业后放弃了做律师的高薪职位，投身于积木艺术创作，并取得了巨大的成功。
小题1:根据第一段Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.描述，可知选D。
小题2:根据第二段Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art.描述，可知选C。
小题3:联系下文Nathan"s exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.描述，可知这个人称代词指代的是南森的展览。故选B。
小题4:这篇短文中的主人公南森利用积木创作出了独特的属于孩子们的艺术，收到了人们的欢迎。故选A，积木艺术家。 |
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When I crossed a small road on my first day in Kolkata, I was surprised because I heard a bell-not a horn (喇叭), It was a tiny man pulling a rickshaw, He stopped and picked up two children from the front door of their house and pulled them to school. For many people, the rickshaw in Kolkata has many advantages. When the traffic is bad, rickshaws find a way through the traffic. If your miss your bus and there aren"t any taxis, you can always find a rickshaw in Kolkata. Rickshaws are from your house to the market and waits for you. Then he loads (装载)all your things, drops you off outside your home and helps you unload, No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.
From June to September, Kolkata gets heavy rain. Sometimes it rains for 48 hours without a break. In some parts of the city, the roads flood (水淹), and anything with an engine(发动机) is useless, But the rickshaw drivers never stop working, even with water all around them.
But not everyone thinks rickshaws are a good thing. The local government want to ban rickshaws. They believe it is wrong for one man to pull another person when there is modern transport in the city. However, there is a problem with this plan. Many of the rickshaw drivers come from the countryside. The only job they can find in Kolkata is pulling a rickshaw, If the city bans rickshaws, these men won"t have a job. So for the moment, the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.
小题1:What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?| A．The rickshaw drivers carry things for local people in Kolkata. | | B．Parents need rickshaws for taking children to school in Kolkata. | | C．Rickshaws can find a way through the bad traffic in Kolkata. | | D．Rickshaws are very useful for the people"s daily life in Kolkata. |
小题2:Which type of transport may you take when the roads flood in Kolkata?| A．A bus. | B．A taxi. | C．A car. | D．A rickshaw. |
小题3:What does the underlined word "ban" mean?| A．make | B．increase | C．forbid | D．collect |
小题4:What can we learn from the passage?| A．The rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns. | | B．The rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata. | | C．The local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw driven. | | D．The people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars. |
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You have probably heard the expression，“It’s raining cats and dogs outside．”That means 16 it’s raining very hard I not that 17 cats and dogs are falling from the 18 ．However，one day in June，1882，it really did rain 19 over Dubuque，Iowa．The frogs 20 falling along with hailstones(冰雹)during a 21 storm．
Hail is formed when drops of rainwater are 22 by heavy winds and are carried high up into the air．There the raindrops become frozen．Many drops may freeze 23 to form balls of ice；these ice balls，or hailstones，then 24 to earth．
During the storm in Dubuque，the strong winds lifted small frogs from nearby ponds(池塘) 25 the air along with raindrops．When some of these frogs became covered with ice，both hailstones and“frog-stones”fell onto the ground．
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| 小题4: | | A．cats | B．frogs | C．dogs | D．birds |
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| 小题5: | | A．stopped | B．enjoyed | C．began | D．forgot |
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It is often said that eyes can speak. Do you have such kind of 61 ? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too, 62. If he notices that he is being looked at, he may 63 uncomfortable. It is the same in daily life. When you are looked at for several more times, you will look 64 up and down in order to 65 if there is anything wrong with you. If 66 goes wrong, you will feel angry with the person who is looking at you. 67 can speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are 68. If you wish to draw someone"s 69 , you may look at him or her for more than ten seconds. For lovers, they enjoy looking at each other longer to show the love that words cannot 70 . Clearly, eye communication should be done according to the relationship
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A hot dog is one of the most popular American food. It was named after frankfurter, a German food. You may hear “hot dog” ___16___ in other ways. People sometimes __17___ “hot dog” to express pleasure(快乐). For example, a friend may ask ___18___ you would like to go to the cinema. You might say, “Great. I’d love to. ” Or, you could say,”__19____! I’d love to go.” People ___20__ use the expression to describe someone who is a “show-off”, who tries to show everyone else how ___21__ he is. You often hear such a(n) ___22__ called a “hot dog”. He may be a basketball player, for example, who __23____ the ball with one hand making a(n) __24__ catch seem more difficult. You know he is a “hot dog” because when he makes such a catch, he bows(鞠躬) to crowd, hoping to __25___ their cheers.
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