【正文】 ’s most popular bagel shops, Beigel Bake. Conclude your tour with a sweet treat at a historical English restaurant。 enjoy the delicious taste of salted egg tart(蛋撻 ) and then bid your guide farewell in the noisy heart of Shoreditch. 21. Where can you try the traditional British fish? A. Near Spitalfields. B. At the English Restaurant. C. At the shop Poppies. D. At a restaurant St John Bread and Wine. 22. What is your last feast of the tour? A. A sweet treat. B. The salted egg tart. C. The varieties of curry. D. A small ringshaped type of bread. 4 23. How long will it take you to plete the tour once on foot? A. About 1 hour. B. About 4 hours. C. About 8 hours. D. About 12 hours. B For years I have lived this lie telling everyone I am allergic to peanuts because I hate the smell of peanut butter. However, whenever I used to tell people I don’t like peanut butter, they’d get all defensive like “Peanut butter is amazing! How do you not like it?!”, and then I’d have to go into this whole thing to defend my taste buds. But then I got tired of it and started telling people that I’m just allergic to peanuts because that way it’s not my fault that I hate the smell of peanut butter. Now I seem like a sad little baby who can never taste peanut butter ever in her life and everyone feels sad for me. But the problem is that I really have an appetite for peanut mamp。ms (巧克力豆 ) but now I can only eat peanut mamp。ms when I’m at home alone. The only person who knows my lie is my husband. 1 remember one evening we had a small celebration for one of our friends and they had peanut mamp。ms. I really wanted some but obviously couldn’t eat them in public because people would know my peanut secret. When we got home after work, my husband tipped his jacket over and emptied his pockets. Peanut mamp。ms fell out of his pockets and he whispered, “I was sneakily accumulating them all night for you because I could see the pain in your eyes.” If that isn’t love, and then I don’t know what is. 24. Why does the author have to lie about her taste? A. Because she is allergic to peanuts. B. Because people feel sympathy for her. C. Because lying makes people feel better. D. Because she is no longer willing to explain. 25. What does everyone feel sad about? A. My health problems. B. My not being able to eat peanuts. C. My lying all the time. D. My not getting along with them. 26. The underlined word “sneakily” in Paragraph 4 refers to . A. patiently B. carefully C. secretly D. hurriedly 27. The passage is intended to . 5 A. show the husband’s deep love B. share an unfettable experience C. tell how to fight against one’s allergy D. express dissatisfaction with people around C It’s difficult to think of a betterknown work of art than Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel es close, but that’s a detail of a huge work, not a work of art on its own. Images by many 20th century artists like Spain’s Pablo Picasso and the US’ Andy Warhol are also instantly recognizable. However, no other painting is nearly as famous as the portrait in oils of a fashionable young lady of Florence, Italy. This painting isn’t just famous because the imag e is now able to be reproduced over and over again. Its fame has at least something to do with the fact that it’s a fine piece of work. Da Vinci was a leader in the revolution in painting in the Renaissance period. The Renaissance was more centered around humans than previous European culture was, and the Mona Lisa is a fine example of Renaissance humanism. The work is about a person. The woman da Vinci painted does not represent a religious idea, but is an individual whom one feels that one could talk to and know. And the question of who the woman is has always interested the public. The earliest answer, from 1517, is that she was just a ＂ certain Florentine lady＂ , but in 1550, famous historian and painter Giio Vasari said she was Mona Lisa, the wife of silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Over the centuries, a number of other women have been put forth as the model, including a suggestion that da Vinci used himself, looking in a mirror, as well as the idea that she was pain