Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of get?ting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1      : giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2        money.

This is how I 3        with giving away. If an idea for improving the win?dow display of a neighbourhood store 4        to me,I step in and make the sug?gestion to the 5      . If an accident takes place,the 6        of which I think the local police could use,I 7        him up and tell him about it,though I am not in 8        here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9        get?ting something back,though the 10        often comes in an unexpected form.

  One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11        letter to my home,though it was 12        to me at my office. I wrote the post?master a note of 13      More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was 14      . I was told at the window that there were 15        boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long 16        list. As I was about to 17     ,the postmaster appeared in the 18      . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19        we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20        but complaints (投诉) .”

1. A. decision   B. research   C. speech   D. discovery

2. A. earn   B. lack   C. spend   D. steal

3. A. experienced   B. connected   C. combined   D. agreed

4. A. happens   B. flashes   C. sticks   D. leads

5. A. postmaster   B. headmaster   C. storekeeper   D. policeman

6. A. story   B. damage   C. challenge   D. material

7. A. call   B. hold   C. break   D. pick

8. A. need   B. trouble   C. common   D. charge

9. A. within   B. without   C. for   D. before 

10. A. process   B. goal   C. return   D. concern 

11.A. curious   B. immediate   C. special   D. heavy 

12. A. realized   B. addressed   C. forgotten   D. brought 

13.A. invitation   B. apology   C. instruction   D. appreciation 

14.A. dealing   B. providing   C. operating   D. starting 

15.A. enough   B. some   C. no   D. more 

16.A. admitting   B. relating   C. examining   D. waiting 

17. A. leave   B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct 

18.A. window   B. doorway   C. library   D. yard 

19.  A. in case   B. now that   C. even if   D. as if 

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

  When Frida Kahlo's paintings were on show in London,a poet described her paintings as "ribbons (丝带) around a bomb". Such comments seem to suggest Kahlo had a big influence on the art world of her time. Sadly,she is actually a much bigger name today than she was during her time.

  Born in 1907 in a village near Mexico City,Kahlo suffered from polio (脊髓灰质炎) at the age of seven. Her spine (脊柱) became bent as she grew older. Then,in 1925,her back was broken in several places in a school bus acci?dent. Throughout the rest of her life,the artist had many operations,but nothing was able to cure the terrible pain in her back. However,the accident had an unexpected side effect. While lying in her bed recovering,Kahlo taught herself to paint.

  In 1929,she got married to Diego Rivera,another famous Mexican artist. Rivera's strong influences on Kahlo's style can be seen in her early works,but her later works from the 1940s,known today as her best works,show less influence from her husband.

Unfortunately,her works did -not attract much attention in the 1930s and 1940s,even in her home country. Her first one-woman show in Mexico was not held until 1953. For more than a decade after her death in 1954,Kahlo's works re?mained largely unnoticed by the world,but in the 1970s her works began to gain in?ternational fame at last.

1. What does the underlined phrase " a much bigger name" in Paragraph 1 most nearly mean?

   A. A far better artist.

   B. A far more gifted artist.

   C. A much stronger person.

   D. A much more famous person.

2. The terrible pain Kahlo suffered from was caused by      .

   A. polio

   B. her bent spine

   C. back injuries

   D. the operations she had

3. Kahlo's style had become increasingly independent since the      .

   A. 1930s   B. 1940s

   C. 1950s   D. 1970s

4. What is the author's attitude towards Kahlo?

   A. Devoted.

   B. Sympathetic.

   C. Worried.

   D. Encouraged.

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