Every art lover has a dream---to buy an old p...

Every art lover has a dream---to buy an old painting at a low price and later discover that it’s worth millions. 1. But this dream can become a nightmare if it turns out that the painting is stolen.

The following true story happened in London. An art collector was walking around an outdoor market in the East End when he saw two interesting paintings.2. He decided to buy them after they got the price down to 145 pounds. The art collector knew it was a good deal, but he wasn’t sure how much his paintings were really worth.

He decided to take the paintings to the Sorheby’s, a famous auction house.3. They were painted by two of England greatest painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. They had been stolen from Lincoln’s Inn, a famous historical building in London and were worth about two million pounds.

4. Experts at Sotheby’s were convinced that he was an art thief and called the police. Within minutes the police arrived. They arrested the frightened man and took him to the police station. After hours of questioning, the police realized that they had made a mistake and let the man go.

The art collector returned them immediately because he was worried about his good name.5. So the stolen paintings are now back at Lincoln’s Inn.

A. Nothing is more exciting.

B. At this point the art collector was in trouble.

C. An auction house is a place where things are sold to whoever offers the most.

D. Although he wasn’t an art expert, he saw that they were old.

E. Obviously, he did not want to be associated with stolen works.

F. The art experts who saw the paintings recognized them immediately.

G. He recognized that they were stolen works worth great value.

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Many people used to consider art to be paintings of fields with flowers, portraits of old- fashioned men in top hats, or pictures of bowls of fruit. 1., art has changed greatly in the last century. Now, computer game art and graffiti (涂鸦) 2. (accept) as types of art forms, too. There are 3. (exhibit) of these contemporary types of art in famous art galleries. Let’s discover some famous contemporary artists.

Damien Hirst is an English artist. He became famous after 4. (attend) Goldsmiths University in London, and was very popular in the 1990s. He has used a lot of dead animals in his work, including dead sharks, sheep and cows. He is famous 5. his diamond-covered skull, which was shown in an art gallery for a limited amount of time.

Marcel Duchamp, a French-American painter and sculptor, is considered one of 6. most important artists of the 20th century as he has influenced many artists. He changed 7. was the “normal” idea in the art world. Perhaps his best 8. (know) piece of work is simply a men’s urinal that he decided to label as art.

William Eggleston is an American photographer 9. made modern colour photography acceptable as an art form. Before him, black and white photography was much 10. (popular). Eggleston’s photographs are very “American”. They contain lots of images of “Coca-Cola, No Parking signs and palm trees”.

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Film has a much shorter history, especially when 　　　 such art forms as music and painting.

A. compare to　　 B. compared to

C. comparing to　 D. having compared to

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

When he needs time alone, he ________ to his private space at a nearby art studio to paint.

A.dials B.chokes C.bothers D.withdraws

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Mrs Taylor has an 8­year­old daughter who has a(n) ______ for painting — she has won two national prizes.

A. gift                      B. interest                                 C. present                      D. ability

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Mrs Taylor has an 8­year­old daughter who has a(n) ______ for painting — she has won two national prizes.

A. ability     B. interest        C. present     D. gift

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Mrs. Taylor has an 8-year-old daughter who has a(n) ______ for painting—she has won two national prizes.

A. ability　　　　　　　　 B. interest

C. present　　　　　　　　 D. gift

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There are hundreds of visitors________in front of the Art Gallery to have a look at Van Gogh’s paintings．

A．wait    B．to wait      C．waited   D．waiting

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Jadav Payeng, an Indian, has been planting a tree every day since he was just 16 years old. Now, almost 40 years later, he has created a ______ of 1,360 acres on what was once a _____ land.

Growing up on Majuli, the world’s largest river island, he once ______ hundreds of animals dying from drought among the ______ greenery on the island, so he was ______ to plant one tree every day.

After almost four ______ of growth, his forest is now home to hundreds of elephants, tigers, deer and birds. Payeng says he has lost ______ of how many trees he has planted—but he ____ there are now thousands of trees providing ______ to the wildlife.

“It’s not as if I did it ______,” Payeng said. “You plant one or two trees, and they have to seed. And once they seed, the wind knows how to plant them, the birds here know how to ____ them, cows know, elephants ______, and even the river knows. The entire ______ knows.”

Island locals used to call Payeng “crazy” for his ______, but since he was accidentally ___ by a wandering wildlife journalist in 2007, the “Forest Man of India” has been ______ as a role model for protecting the environment.

Payeng doesn’t plan on ______ any time soon—he wants to continue planting trees “until his last ______”. He hopes to one day ______ the entire island with 5,000 acres of trees. “Nature is everything. It ______ me. It gives me power…As long as it survives, I survive.”

1.A.lake B.forest C.park D.hole

2.A.big B.fertile C.poor D.flat

3.A.witnessed B.imagined C.reported D.rescued

4.A.remote B.amazing C.fresh D.decreasing

5.A.delighted B.moved C.determined D.convinced

6.A.decades B.years C.months D.weeks

7.A.interest B.count C.control D.sight

8.A.argues B.dreams C.hopes D.believes

9.A.food B.care C.water D.shelter

10.A.by accident B.by myself C.by mistake D.by all means

11.A.eat B.pass C.repair D.sow

12.A.know B.work C.rest D.run

13.A.village B.ecosystem C.planet D.desert

14.A.confidence B.position C.ambition D.experiment

15.A.discovered B.connected C.decided D.regarded

16.A.ordered B.observed C.praised D.studied

17.A.stopping B.returning C.hiding D.waiting

18.A.purpose B.view C.breath D.picture

19.A.tighten B.restart C.arrange D.save

20.A.improves B.inspires C.changes D.forbids

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Mr. Green has 1.bakery. Many customers come to buy2.(variety) of bread every day.3.　 (say)that Mr. Green’s bread is nicer and cheaper than4.in other bakeries. Children always ask their parents to buy Mr. Green’s cake5. their birthdays because it tastes so delicious and looks so cute.

Betty is Mr. Green’s only daughter 6.usually helps in the bakery. However, she thinks her father very cold and complains to her mother: “Mom, why does Dad never say how much he loves me? Is it because he doesn’t like me?” “Oh, my good girl,” says Mrs, Green. “You never know how proud your father is of you.　　　 Nothing else in the world 7. (mean) more than you to your father. When he’s making cookies and bread, he is thinking of you. That’s 8.our cakes and bread are the 9.(good). Sometimes when you’ve done something wrong and made him angry or sad, the bread that day must taste hard and dry. Your father may not say how much he loves you, 10.his bread does.”

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