Mark Twain is a name not usually connected with Broadway(百老汇), but now his play “Is He Dead” will receive its first public performance on November 29.
“Is He Dead” was written by Mark Twain in 1898 but was never performed. It was rediscovered in 2002 by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, an English professor and director of the American Studies Program at Stanford University. It was published the following year by the University of California Press.
The story is about a group of poor artists who fake the death of their friend in order to increase the value of his work.
“Is He Dead” is set in France in the 1840s and centers on the French painter Jean-Francois Millet. “Millet was probably the most popular European painter in the United States in Twain’s lifetime,” Fishkin said in a telephone interview. “Americans greatly admired him because he focused on the life of the common man and the common woman.”
According to Fishkin, “Is He Dead” is a satire(讽刺) about how value is created in the art world. Twain wrote the play when he was coming out of the hardest time of his life.
【小题1】What’s “Is He Dead” about?

A.The death of a poor artist in the 1840s.
B.A trick played by a group of poor artists.
C.A story about the French painter Jean-Francois Millet.
D.An experience Mark Twain had gone through.
【小题2】From the second paragraph we learn that ______.
A.the play was one of Mark Twain’s early works
B.no one knew the play until 2002
C.Fishkin is an expert on Mark Twain’s works
D.the play was published in 2002
【小题3】According to Fishkin, Jean-Francois Millet was admired by Americans because ____.
A.he was a famous French painter at that time
B.he focused on the life of ordinary Americans
C.his works showed respect for ordinary people
D.Mark Twain agreed on his thoughts
【小题4】We can infer from the passage that Mark Twain ______.
A.had experienced several difficult times for no money
B.was a good novelist but a bad playwright(剧作家)
C.was a writer who only cared about ordinary people’s life
D.was dissatisfied with some methods of creating the value of art work

阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题,交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上(请注意76、77、79和80四个小题后面的词数要求)。
[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”
[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.
[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.
[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.
[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.
【小题1】What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)
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【小题2】Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)
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【小题3】Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph3.
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【小题4】What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family (no more than 10 words)
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【小题5】What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
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阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题,交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上(请注意76、77、79和80四个小题后面的词数要求)。

[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”

[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.

[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.

[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.

[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.

1.What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)

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2.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)

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3.Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph3.

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4.What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family (no more than 10 words)

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5.What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)

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