An artist (畫家) went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and brushes(顏料和畫筆)and painted till 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 don`t want money. But give me one of your pictures. What`s money? In a week it will all be finished ,but your picture will still be here."
The artists was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his 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 home next month, I`ll show him your picture, and he will not want to be an artist any more, I think."
1.The artist went to the countryside to ________.
A. visit his old friend B. spend his holiday
C. visit the farmer D. Thank the farmer
2. Every day ,the artist _______.
A. went out to help the farmer to do some farming
B. went out to visit his friends
C. painted pictures
D. enjoyed the beautiful scenery
3. The artist wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer ____.
A. wanted much more money
B. wanted nothing
C. didn`t want any money at all
D. wanted one of his pictures instead of money
4. The artist thought the farmer wanted a picture of his because _______.
A. the farmer was an artist too
B. the farmer liked his pictures very much
C. the farmer wanted to give it to his son as a present
D. the farmer was rich
5. After hearing the farmer`s words ,perhaps the artist would be ______.
A. very worried B. very happy C. very thankful D. very disappointed
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| A．Big people drive small cars. | B．Old people drive new cars. |
| C．Poor people have expensive cars. | D．Rich people have dear cars. |
| A．A fast new car. | B．A fast old car. |
| C．A slow old car. | D．A fast small car. |
| A．A person who is good at driving. | B．A person who does well in drawing. |
| C．A person who likes drawing. | D．A person who is good at writing. |
| A．Five. | B．Six. | C．Seven. | D．Eight. |
| A．Does someone tell you something about your car? |
| B．Does your car say something to you? |
| C．Does your car show other people something about you? |
| D．Do you tell other people something about your car? |
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科目：初中英語 來源：2010年廣東省增城市實驗初中七年級上學期綜合練習英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
My favorite physicist (物理學家) is Qian Xuesen. He was born in Shanghai on December 11, 1911. He was a little fat and of medium height. And his eyes were wise. He liked music, art and science (科學).
He studied the important implementation (實施) plan for the Chinese rocket (火箭) and the missile (導彈). He worked very hard for our country. I liked him very much.
Qian Xuesen had famous words: I am very tiny (微小的). It is the Chinese people that are truly great!
Qian Xuesen died on October 31, 2009. I’m very sad to hear the news, and Chinese people are the same as me. He is our hero. We should learn from him and I think I won’t forget the great scientist for ever.
【小題1】Qian Xuesen died at the age of _______.
| A．68 | B．78 | C．88 | D．98 |
| A．He liked playing the piano. | B．He liked piano and science. |
| C．He like maths, art and science. | D．He liked music, art and science. |
| A．Qian Xuesen was born in Beijing. |
| B．Qian Xuesen died on October 31, 2009. |
| C．Chinese people are sad about Qian Xuesen’s death (死). |
| D．Qian Xuesen was too fat. |
| A．A Scientist. | B．A teacher. | C．A farmer. | D．An artist (藝術家). |
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科目：初中英語 來源：2012-2013學年四川省成都鐵中八年級12月檢測英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
There are many kinds of cars in the world. My grandfather thinks this is because cars are like their drivers. He says, “Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars.” But I don’t agree with him.
My neighbor, Mrs Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday to the bank. She never drives more than 30 kilometers an hour. Do you think Mrs Hill has a very old and small car? No! Her car is new. It’s very large, and it can go 200 kilometers an hour!
My friend Mike is an artist. He paints beautiful pictures with lots of colors. But his car is black. Mrs Bates has a very, very old car. It often has some trouble. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she has four restaurants and two million dollars in the bank. My uncle Joe has a very small car. Every Sunday, he drives to the country with his wife, his three children, his mother and his dog.
Now, you have read about my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my grandfather? Maybe you have a car. Does it say something about you?
【小題1】 The writer’s grandfather thinks _______________.
A. a person has the same kind of car as himself (herself)
B. different people have cars of the same kind
C. poor people have large cars
【小題2】 Mrs Bates has an old car ________________.
A. because she is poor
B. because she likes old cars
C. and the passage doesn’t tell us why
【小題3】 Though Uncle Joe has a very small car, _____________.
A. he has a dog
B. he has a large family
C. he has no children
【小題4】 The writer’s friend Mike paints _________________.
A. pictures in black
B. colorful pictures
C. pictures with only a few colors
【小題5】 The writer thinks _______________.
A. cars are often the same as their drivers in many ways
B. artists shouldn’t drive black cars
C. a car doesn’t say anything about its owner
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科目：初中英語 來源：2011-2012學年江蘇泰興洋思中學初二下學期第一次月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
An artist who did not have much money, but was a very kind man, was coming home by train one day. He gave his last few coins to a beggar, but then he saw another one, and forgot that he did not have any money. He asked the man if he would like to have lunch with him, and the beggar accepted, so they went into a small restaurant and had a good meal. At the end, the artist could not pay the bill, of course, so the beggar had to do so.
The artist was very unhappy about this, so he said to the beggar, “Come home with me in a taxi, my friend, and I’ll give you back the money for money.”
“Oh, no!” the beggar answered quickly. “I had to pay for your lunch, but I’m not going to pay for your taxi home either!”
【小題1】The artist in this story was __________.
| A．a man of wealth | B．a funny man | C．a kind man | D．a cheat |
| A．his wallet | B．his train ticket | C．his coins | D．his own trouble |
| A．The artist | B．another man | C．the beggar | D．no one |
| A．the beggar could pay for the taxi home |
| B．he could pay the money in return for the meal he had had |
| C．he could make friends with the beggar |
| D．they could trust each other |
| A．didn’t trust(信任) the artist |
| B．was thankful to the artist |
| C．felt sad for having paid for their lunch |
| D．would make friends with the artist |
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科目：初中英語 來源：2013年初中畢業升學考試（江西南昌卷）英語（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (積木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自畫像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty.
B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait.
D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
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