About 30 years ago, Marie Roth taught a paint...

About 30 years ago, Marie Roth taught a painting class. When some of her ______ expressed an interest in purchasing her works, she turned painting into a profession.

She’s 70 now, an age when many folks are starting to be ______ on the sofa in front of the TV. But ______ are if there’s a (n)______ barn (谷仓) coming down somewhere in northeastern Illinois, Marie will be there. Wearing leather gloves, Marie will pick through the piles of wood and ______ pieces that, as she describes, “whisper” to her. She’ll remove the ______ boards to her home, where she’ll ______ them and allow them to dry out before ______ the pieces together and gluing them into place. But it’s only when Marie ______ painting them in the eye-catching, beautiful colors loved by every American that it becomes clear what she’s ______. From the broken-down barns, she constructs fine wooden reproductions of the American ______.

“The wood is continually ______ by animals, or sometimes nailed and hammered by humans,” she said. “Recently, I had a piece of wood from the floor of a barn that was ______ by hooves (蹄子). I used it to paint flags from the Civil War era—the marks made me ______ all those brave soldiers.”

Marie comes by her love of barn wood ______ because her father is a carpenter. She painted her first flag on a shipping pallet (托盘) more than 30 years ago. The old pallet, she ______, “______ looked like a flag.”

The self-taught artist paints American flags ______ she is really good at drawing straight lines. Creating art is ______ she has to do. She sometimes ______ that she hopes one day she dies with a paintbrush in her hand.

1.A. students　　 B. employees　　 C. customers　　 D. managers

2.A. bravely　　 B. modestly　　 C. gratefully　　 D. comfortably

3.A. tasks　　 B. processes　　 C. chances　　 D. purposes

4.A. small　　 B. old　　 C. ordinary　　 D. dangerous

5.A. look for　　 B. wait for　　 C. work on　　 D. get through

6.A. borrowed　　 B. selected　　 C. limited　　 D. carved

7.A. wash　　 B. repair　　 C. cut　　 D. store

8.A. fitting　　 B. founding　　 C. replacing　　 D. holding

9.A. continues　　 B. starts　　 C. avoids　　 D. risks

10.A. collecting　　 B. showing　　 C. writing　　 D. creating

11.A. flag　　 B. picture　　 C. scene　　 D. toy

12.A. chewed　　 B. kicked　　 C. smashed　　 D. made

13.A. disturbed　　 B. spotted　　 C. printed　　 D. marked

14.A. think of　　 B. care for　　 C. attend to　　 D. bring back

15.A. frequently　　 B. naturally　　 C. quickly　　 D. secretly

16.A. imagined　　 B. nodded　　 C. pretended　　 D. remembered

17.A. just　　 B. yet　　 C. even　　 D. still

18.A. because　　 B. or　　 C. though　　 D. so

19.A. anything　　 B. nothing　　 C. something　　 D. everything

20.A. admits　　 B. declares　　 C. cries　　 D. jokes

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow , she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably because ________.

A. he wanted to comfort the two families              B. he was an official from the community

C. he had great pity for the deceased                 D. he was priest of the local church

2.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________.

A. they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow

B. they believe that they were responsible

C. they had neglected the natural course of events

D. they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ________.

A. everything in the world is predetermined

B. the world can be interpreted in different ways

C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world

D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery.

B. Every story should have a happy ending.

C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.

D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away .

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves．One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community．Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say．Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence （吊唁） calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased （已故的） woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow , she would be alive today．It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today．That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take．It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty．Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better．After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty．The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens．That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen．It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault．The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it．He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks．He cries, and someone comes to attend to him．When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him．Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably because ________.

A．he wanted to comfort the two families

B．he was an official from the community

C．he had great pity for the deceased

D．he was priest of the local church

2.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________.

A．they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow

B．they believe that they were responsible

C．they had neglected the natural course of events

D．they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ________.

A．everything in the world is predetermined

B．the world can be interpreted in different ways

C．there’s an explanation for everything in the world

D．we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Life and death is an unsolved mystery.

B．Every story should have a happy ending.

C．Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.

D．In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away .

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow , she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably because ________.

2.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________.

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ________.

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

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Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service. Because the entire village ______ the fishing industry, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of ______. One night, the winds screamed, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The crew in trouble______the S.O.S. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers______in the town square overlooking the sea. When the team started their rowboat fought their way through the wild waves, the villagers waited ______on the beach, holding lamps to______the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat ______ through the fog and the cheering villagers ran to greet them. Falling _______on the sand, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not hold any more _______and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely _______the rescue boat and all would have been lost. Therefore, the captain called for another volunteer team to _______the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans_____　 forward. His mother grabbed his arm, crying, "Please don't go. Your father______in a shipwreck (船只失事) 10 years ago and your elder brother, Paul, has been lost_____for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have left." Hans replied, "Mother, I have to go. ________everyone said I can't go, let someone else do it? Mother, this time I have to do my duty. When the call for service comes, we all need to take our _______and do our part. Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and______into the night. "

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans' mother like a century._____the rescue boat dashed through the fog with Hans _______up in the bow. Cupping his hands, the captain called, "did you find the lost man?" Hardly able to control himself, Hans ______ cried back, "Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it's my elder brother, Paul!”

1.A. suffered from　　 B. got through　　 C. depended on　　 D. turned away

2.A. frequency　　 B. emergency　　 C. efficiency　　　　 　　 D. fluency

3.A. set about　　 B. took over　　 C. came up with　　 D. sent out

4.A. fought　　 B. followed　　 C. gathered　　 D. struggled

5.A. angrily　　 B. anxiously　　 C. fearfully　　 D. happily

6.A. hope　　 B. try　　 C. expect　　 D. light

7.A. reappeared　　 B. repeated　　 C. rewrote　　 D. reminded

8.A. unknown　　 B. urgent　　 C. exhausted　　 D. energetic

9.A. villagers　　 B. barbers　　 C. passengers　　 D. captains

10.A. pushed　　 B. pulled　　 C. settled　　 D. overturned

11.A. look for　　 B. look after　　 C. look out　　 D. look on

12.A. stepped　　 B. looked　　 C. put　　 D. threw

13.A. lived　　 B. pulled　　 C. died　　 D. survived

14.A. in the fire　　 B. in the war　　 C. on strike　　 D. at sea

15.A. How about　　 B. What if　　 C. What for　　 D. What with

16.A. place　　 B. photo　　 C. fame　　 D. turn

17.A. disappeared　　 B. appeared　　 C. came　　 D. went

18.A. Secondly　　 B. Firstly　　 C. Finally　　 D. Thirdly

19.A. standing　　 B. keeping　　 C. fishing　　 D. taking

20.A. sincerely　　 B. excitedly　　 C. worriedly　　 D. curiously

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “ full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故的)woman said to me, “ If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “ If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today.. that long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course—keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation—would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There are seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens that leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens , especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believe that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him , and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.What is said about the two diseased elderly women?

A．They lived out a natural life

B．They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride

C．They weren’t used to the change in weather.

D．They died due to lack of care by family members.

2.The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ______.

A．he wanted to comfort the two families

B．he was an official from the community

C．he had great pity for the deceased

D．he was minister of the local church

3.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _____.

A．they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow

B．they believe that they were responsible

C．they had neglected the natural course of events

D．they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction

4.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that_____.

A．everything in the world is predetermined

B．the world can be interpreted in different ways

C．there is an explanation for everything in the world

D．we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

5.What’s the idea of the passage?

A．Life and death is an unsolved mystery.

B．Every story should have a happy ending.

C．Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.

D．In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away.

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on days in a row for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “ full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故的)woman said to me, “ If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “ If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course—keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation—would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens that leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens , especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believe that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him , and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.We learn from the passage that the two deceased elderly women_____________

A. lived out a natural life.

B. died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.

C. weren’t used to the change in weather.

D. died due to lack of care by family members.

2.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because they believe _____.

A. they are responsible

B. they overlook the natural course of events

C. they can’t find a better way to express their sorrow

D. they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that_____.

A. everything in the world is predetermined

B. the world can be explained in different ways

C. there is an explanation for everything in the world

D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

4.What’s the idea of the passage?

A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery.

B. Every story should have a happy ending.

C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.

D. Usually, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away.

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Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the________1.________(hard) challenge for an artist.   2. (choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know  ________3.________  stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and   ________4.   . (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based  ________5.  contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of________6.   French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene   ________7.    the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they    ________8.  ( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes   ________9.________ look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king,  ________10.   had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.

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Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the 　 1.　 (hard) challenge for an artist.　 2.　 (choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know　 　 3.　 　 stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and　 　 4.　 . (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based　 　 5.　 　 contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of 6.　 　 French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene　 　 7.　 　 the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they　 　 8.　 ( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes 9. 　　 look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king,　 10.　 　 　 had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.

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Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys in front of each student, and said: “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today—and 45minutes each day for the rest of the week.”

A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see what the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.

Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect(感染) other students.

Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, “But I’m just not creative.”

“Do you dream at night when you’re asleep?”

“Oh, sure.”

“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “That’s pretty creative. Who does that for you?”

“Nobody. I do it.”

“Really—at night, when you’re asleep?”

“Sure.”

“Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay?”

1.The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to ________.

A. know more about the students

B. make the lessons more exciting　　　　

C. raise the students’ interest in art　

D. teach the students about toy design

2.What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. He liked to help his teacher.

B. He preferred to study alone.　

C. He was active in class.　

D. He was imaginative.

3.What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Mistake.　　　　　　 B. Drawback.　

C. Difficulty.　　　　 D. Burden.

4.Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams?

A. To help them to see their creativity.　

B. To find out about their sleeping habits.　　

C. To help them to improve their memory.

D. To find out about their ways of thinking.

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