题目内容
An artist went to beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a famer. Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from morning to evening. When it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed. At the end of his holiday, he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, “No I do not want money, but give me one of your pictures”, .The farmer smiled and answered, “It’s not that. I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes here next month. I will show him your picture, and then he will not want to be an artist any more, I think.”
1.What did the artist go to the country for?
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A．To look for the farmer |
B．To spend a holiday |
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C．To teach the farmer’s son |
D．To see the farmer’s son |
2.What did the artist do every day in the country?
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A．He chatted with the farmer every day |
B．He went out to paint every day |
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C．He played cards with the farmer every day |
D．He worked for the farm |
3.Where did the artist live in the country?
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A．In a hotel |
B．He was in France |
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C．He was in Britain. |
D．In his own house |
1.B
2.B
3.C
【解析】
试题分析：
1.这是一道事实细节题。文章第一句话An artist went to beautiful part of the country for a holiday，故选 B
2.这是一道事实细节题。从文章第二句话Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from morning to evening。故选 B
3.这是一道事实细节题。从文章第四行I have a son in London可以知道。故选 C
考点：这是一篇记叙文。
点评：文章十分简单，是一篇幽默短文，主要内容都在纸面上，学生相比较容易理解。只有最后一句话When he comes here next month. I will show him your picture, and then he will not want to be an artist any more, I think.”可能让学生有些费解。
Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was unable to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” Instead, he wrote the two most famous papers when he was employed as a patent clerk. After their publication, there was not a major university in the world that would not have been glad to have him on their staff.
If you want to work as an artist and you are making a living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiter tables—and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft（手艺）in the off hours.
While seeking the work you love, it helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be limited to the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened to all possibilities, you can make a final decision and select the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love requires that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.
【小题1】According to the passage, perhaps Einstein once said to himself, “_______.”
| A．Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else |
| B．The job is just what I want, I should work very hard at it |
| C．I have to support myself by working as a patent clerk now, but I won’t give physics up |
| D．I must wait until I find my favorite job |
| A．have enough spare time for his hobbies |
| B．have no time left to make his dream come true |
| C．do nothing else |
| D．make a good living |
| A．Sometimes the imaginative is different from the practical. |
| B．We have to take care of a lot of details before we make our dreams come true. |
| C．We shall do practical things rather than dream. |
| D．We shall dream big dreams and practice as well. |
| A．start work quickly | B．select job carefully and patiently |
| C．dream often | D．make up our minds quickly |