Question

Once there was a boy in Toronto. His name was Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very ______ at it. He drew many beautiful interesting pictures, and many people ______ his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be ______ when he was a little older, and then they were going to ___these pictures for a lot of money.

Jimmy's pictures were quite different from other ______ because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on ______ of it, and the other half was always ______.

"That's very clever," everybody said. "______ other people have ever done that before."

One day somebody asked him, "Please tell me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures, ______ not on the top half?"

"Because I'm small," Jimmy said, "and my brushes (毛笔) can't ______ very high."

1.A.poor        B.sad        C.glad     D.good

2.A.bought      B.brought    C.sold     D.took

3.A.different   B.clever     C.famous   D.rich

4.A.buy         B.show       C.leave    D.sell

5.A.men's       B.people's   C.boy's    D.child's

6.A.half        B.part       C.side     D.end

7.A.full        B.empty      C.wrong    D.ready

8.A.No          B.Some       C.Any      D.Many

9.A.then        B.and        C.but      D.or

10.A.change      B.turn       C.pull     D.reach

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.D

5.B

6.A

7.B

8.A

9.C

10.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是Jimmy已经很擅长画画，很多人买他的画。Jimmy 的画和别人的画很不同，他在纸的一半上画另一半总是空的。有人问：“你为什么在画的下半部分画，而不是在上半部分？”他答道： “因为我个子小。我的毛笔够不到那么高。”

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考点：日常生活类短文。