1、]Some people hate everything that is modern.They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music;they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing;they think that all modern painting is ugly;and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world.Such people look for perfection in everything,and they take their standards of perfection from the past.They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways.It is,of course,true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures.If the work of art is a painting,the artist's failure concerns himself alone,but if it is a building,his failure concerns others too,because it may damage the beauty of the whole place.This does sometimes happen,but it is completely untrue to say,as some people do,that modern architecture is nothing.

　　We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time,even though we admire the ancient buildings.Technologically,the modern buildings are more advanced.The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works,but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials,he will never be content to imitate the past.He is too proud to do that.

　　1[1单选题]Some people hate everything that is modern because().

　　A.they are aged

　　B.they find it hard to accept modern things

　　C.they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

　　D.they look at things by the standards of the past

　　[答案]D

　　2[1单选题]The writer of the passage thinks that().

　　A.it is true to say artists fail in their work

　　B.it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

　　C.it is true to say some artists fail in their work

　　D.it is true to say only painters fail in their work

　　[答案]C

　　3[1单选题]The writer thinks the failure of a building().

　　A.means nothing

　　B.concerns others

　　C.concerns only the artist

　　D.concerns all the people in the world

　　[答案]B

　　4[1单选题]The writer thinks that().

　　A.we can't judge buildings by the ancient standards

　　B.we can't judge all the buildings by the ancient standards

　　C.we can't judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

　　D.we can't judge modern buildings

　　[答案]C

　　2、Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself：“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”

　　She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.

　　Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures：careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.

　　1[1单选题]Which of the following would be the best title for the passage()?

　　A.Grandma Moses

　　B.The Children of Grandma Moses

　　C.Grandma Moses：Her Best Pictures

　　D.Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition

　　[答案]A

　　2[1单选题]From Grandma Moses‘s words of herself in the first paragraph,it can be inferred that she was().

　　A.independent

　　B.pretty

　　C.rich

　　D.alone

　　[答案]A

　　3[1单选题]Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to().

　　A.make her home beautiful

　　B.keep active

　　C.improve her salary

　　D.gain an international fame

　　[答案]B

　　4[1单选题]Grandma Moses spent most of their life().

　　A.nursing

　　B.painting

　　C.farming

　　D.embroidering

　　[答案]D

　　3、[.共享题干题]In the fall of 1924 Thomas Wolfe,fresh from his courses in play writing at Harvard joined the eight or ten of us who were teaching English composition in New York University.I had never before seen a man so tall as he,and so ugly.I pitied him and went out of my way to help him with his work and make him feel at home.

　　His students soon let me know that he had no need of my protectiveness.They spoke of his ability to explain a poem in such a manner as to have them shouting with laughter or struggling to keep back their tears,of his readiness to quote in detail from any poet they could name.

　　Indeed,his students made so much of his power of observation that I decided to make a little test and see for myself.My chance came one morning when the students were slowly gathering for nine o’clock classes.

　　Upon arriving at the university that day,I found Wolfe alone in the large room which served all the English composition teachers as an office.He did not say anything when I asked him to come with me out into the hall,and he only smiled when we reached a classroom door and I told him to enter alone and look around.

　　He stepped in,remained no more than thirty seconds and then came out.”Tell me what you see.”I said as I took his place in the room,leaving him in the hall with his back to the door.Without the least hesitation and without a single error,he gave the number of seats in the room,pointed out those which were taken by boys and those occupied by girls,named the colors each student was wearing,pointed out the Latin verb written on the blackboard,spoke of the chalk marks which the cleaner had failed to wash from the floor,and pictured in detail the view of Washington Square from the window.

　　As I rejoined Wolfe,I was speechless with surprise.He,on the contrary,was wholly calm as he said,”The worst thing about it is that I’ll remember it all.”

　　1、[1单选题]What is the passage mainly discussing()?

　　A.Thomas Wolfe’s teaching work.

　　B.Thomas Wolfe’s course in playwriting.

　　C.Thomas Wolfe’s ability of explaining.

　　D.Thomas Wolfe’s genius.

　　[答案]D

　　2、[1单选题]Which of the following is NOT said in the passage()?

　　A.Wolfe’s students praised Wolfe's power of observation.

　　B.The author made an experiment on Wolfe’s ability.

　　C.Wolfe’s students asked the author to have a test of their ability.

　　D.Wolfe did not feel angry when he was tested.

　　[答案]C

　　3[1单选题]What do we learn about Wolfe from the passage()?

　　A.He tried hard to remember what was in the classroom.

　　B.He stayed in the classroom for a short time.

　　C.He stayed drew a picture of Washington Square.

　　D.He followed the author into the classroom.

　　[答案]B

　　4[1单选题]What can be inferred from the passage()?

　　A.The author was happy to see the test result.

　　B.What the students said was hardly true.

　　C.Wolfe would remember forever what the author had done.

　　D.Wolfe felt joyful after he had been tested.

　　[答案]C

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