1、convinced cattached darmed44aso bor cfor dbut45abattle bbargain cmatch ddiscussion46ain bacross cbeyond dover47apay bhunt chead dwait48aat one time bin time cin no time don time49abuy bfind close dlearn50aamusement bdisappointment camazement dexcitement51aanxious bwilling cserious dcurious52aseparat
2、ed bshaped ccrossed dreturned53afeeling breply cmistake didea54asomething bnothing canything deverything55aservice bfamily clife dwork第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。athe artist grandma moses became famous for her simple, bright, cheerf
3、ul paintings of american farm lifeher full name was anna mary robertson mosesbut she was known to everyone as grandma moses because she did not begin to paint seriously until in her seventiesborn on a farm in new york, anna had little schoolingher days were filled with farm choresbut she often found
4、 time to make picturessoon, however, she became too busy to draw or paintat the age of 12, she went to work as a servant for a family nearbyshe worked for other people for many yearsthen, when she was 27, she married thomas moses, a farmerand they began raising a family of their ownanna moses could
5、no longer do heavy farm work with agethen, in her seventies, she began to paint in oilsher pictures showed things she recalled from childhood-farm scenes, ice-skating, bringing home the christmas treelater, she began to display her art at county fairsher pictures recorded a way of life that was quic
6、kly passing awaypeople everywhere loved these happy scenes, and soon her paintings were shown in art galleriesgrandma moses became famous partially on account of her age, but mainly because her approach to art was modest and simple compared to many other painters of her timewithout formal training o
7、r even knowledge of modernism, she relied on her own simple techniques to create her landscapes and scenesshe continued to paint almost until her death, on december 13, 1961 , at the age of 101the themes in her paintings provided the comfort of a rural life that many busy americans treasured from th
8、eir pastthe threat of nuclear arms that appeared on television screens and in magazines had americans starving for something moregrandma moses art appealed to those who had lost hope for the futureher classic paintings still appear on tv commercials, greeting cards, and magazine and book covers56wha
9、t can be inferred from the fact that grandma moses picked up a paintbrush?ashe had no other ways to kill timebher friend and family suggested itcshe had had a love for painting since her childhooddshe needed to make a living by selling her paintings57the key reason for her success is _ .aher old age
10、bher plain stylecher lack of trainingdher modern knowledge58we can know from the passage that _aher paintings raised peoples hope for the futurebher paintings expressed the reality of her old agecmany americans were interested in purchasing art worksdpeople wanted to get comfort by remembering grand
11、masbspeaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized worldbut in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism （双语能力） are even more important than being able to converse with a wider range of peoplebeing biling
12、ual, it turns out, makes you smarterit can have a deep effect on your brain, improving skills not related to language and even protecting against a serious mental disorder in old agethis view of bilingualism is different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th centuryresearch
13、ers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interruption that prevented a childs school work and ability to think and understand thingsthey were not wrong about the interruption: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual s brain both language systems are active even
14、 when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system disturbs the otherbut this interruption, researchers are finding out, isnt so much a disturbanceit forces the brain to solve inside conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its thinking musclesthe key diffe
15、rence between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environmentbilinguals have to switch languages quite oftenyou may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language, says albert costa, a researcher at the university of pompea fabra in spainit requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving in a study comparing german-italian bilinguals with