【正文】 . When we walked into the house, I noticed the wonderful drawings that 13 the walls. The daughter told us that her father had 14 them, and that he hadn39。t 15 art until he was 80 years old. I was 16 : these drawings were works of art that could have easily been hanging in a museum. At the time, I was in my early 30s and wanted to do something that would 17 my creative and artistic petence more than being president of a pany would 18 . I had felt that it was too 19 to make a change at this advanced stage of my life. Boy! My 20 belief system got expanded that afternoon!1. A. temporaryB. easyC. properD. impossible2. A. restB. playC. startD. work3. A. researchB. serviceC. designD. class4. A. panyB. houseC. officeD. room5. A. showedB. helpedC. invitedD. greeted6. A. colleagueB. wifeC. daughterD. partner7. A. sellB. buyC. cleanD. tour8. A. amazingB. amusingC. boringD. tiring9. A. individuallyB. togetherC. aloneD. equally10. A. finishedB. washedC. startedD. arrived11. A. howeverB. thereforeC. insteadD. moreover12. A. similarB. familiarC. differentD. absurd13. A. builtB. facedC. madeD. decorated14. A. coloredB. paintedC. observedD. purchased15. A. appealed toB. given upC. kept toD. taken up16. A. disappointedB. embarrassedC. shockedD. satisfied17. A. useB. lackC. addD. provide18. A. continueB. allowC. failD. process19. A. activeB. simpleC. difficultD. strange20. A. openB. socialC. newD. limited【答案】 （1）A；（2）D；（3）B；（4）B；（5）D；（6）C；（7）C；（8）A；（9）B；（10）A；（11）A；（12）C；（13）D；（14）B；（15）D；（16）C；（17）A；（18）B；（19）A；（20）D； 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，是幾年前，作者的公司生意下滑，作者于是利用周五的時(shí)間和同時(shí)一起去了家鄉(xiāng)做公益活動(dòng)，幫助老人做清潔工作。在一位老人的家中無意間看到了老子的畫作，非常吃驚于老人的藝術(shù)天分，而老人的女兒告知作者老人是從八十歲才開始學(xué)習(xí)藝術(shù)的。作者從這件事中得到了啟發(fā)，自己有限的信念得到了擴(kuò)展。 （1）考查形容詞。A. temporary“暫時(shí)的”；B. easy“容易的”；C. proper“合適的”；D. impossible“不可能的”。根據(jù)上文可知作者的公司不景氣，作者希望那只是“暫時(shí)的”，故選A。 （2）考查動(dòng)詞。A. rest“休息”；B. play“玩?！?；C. start“開始”；D. work“工作”。根據(jù)上文“only four days of the week”可知一周只從周一到周四工作，故選D。 （3）考查名詞。A. research“研究”；B. service“服務(wù)”；C. design“設(shè)計(jì)”；D. class“班級(jí)”。根據(jù)下文作者去家鄉(xiāng)一位老人家里打掃可知，他們周五去家鄉(xiāng)做一些服務(wù)項(xiàng)目。故選B。 （4）考查名詞。A. pany“公司”；B. house“房子”；C. office“辦公室”；D. room“房間”。根據(jù)下文“do a total cleanup”可知是去一位很老的老人的房子進(jìn)行大掃除。故選B。 （5）考查動(dòng)詞。句意：當(dāng)我們到的時(shí)候，一位年長的女士在門口給我們打招呼。A. showed“展示”；B. helped“幫助”；C. invited“邀請(qǐng)”；D. greeted“問候，打招呼”。故選D。 （6）考查名詞。A. colleague“同事”；B. wife“妻子”；C. daughter“女兒”；D. partner“伙伴”。根據(jù)下文“She was 75, and her father 97”可知她是老人的女兒，故選C。 （7）考查動(dòng)詞。句意：很快，我們開始打掃房子和庭院。A. sell“出售”；B. buy“購買”；C. clean“打掃”；D. tour“旅行”。故選C。 （8）考查形容詞。句意：當(dāng)每個(gè)人都在一起工作時(shí)，一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)能完成多少工作是令人驚訝的。A. amazing“令人驚異的”；B. amusing “有趣的”；C. boring“無聊的”；D. tiring“累人的”。故選A。 （9）考查副詞。A. individually“分別地”；B. together“一起”；C. alone“獨(dú)自地”；D. equally“平等地”。作者不止一個(gè)人去了老人的家，所以是一起工作的。故選B。 （10）考查動(dòng)詞。句意：我們完工時(shí)，那位先生的房子從土堆變成了一座閃閃發(fā)光的干凈宮殿。A. finished“完成”；B. washed“洗”；C. started“開始”；D. arrived“到達(dá)”。故選A。 （11）考查連詞。句意：然而，那天我記得最深刻的事情，并不是我們所做的偉大的清潔工作。A. however“然而”；B. therefore“因此”；C. instead“而不是”；D. moreover“而且”。前后文為轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系故用轉(zhuǎn)折連詞。故選A。 （12）考查形容詞。A. similar“相似的”；B. familiar“熟悉的”；C. different“不同的”；D. absurd“荒謬的”。讓作者印象深刻的并不是他們出色的清潔工作，而是另一些不同的事情。故選C。 （13）考查動(dòng)詞。句意：當(dāng)我們走進(jìn)房子的時(shí)候，我注意到那些裝飾墻壁的精美圖畫。A. built“建造”；B. faced“面對(duì)”；C. made“制造”；D. decorated“裝飾”。故選D。 （14）考查動(dòng)詞。A. colored“染色”；B. painted“畫畫”；C. observed“觀察”；D. purchased“購買”。女兒告訴作者是她的父親畫的。故選B。 （15）考查動(dòng)詞短語。句意：他直到80歲才開始學(xué)藝術(shù)。A. appealed to“呼吁”；B. given up“放棄”；C. kept to“保密”；D. taken up“開始從事”。故選D。 （16）考查形容詞。A. disappointed“失望的”；B. embarrassed“尷尬的”；C. shocked“吃驚的”；D. satisfied“滿意的”。根據(jù)下文“these drawings were works of art that could have easily been hanging in a museum”可知作者對(duì)老人擁有出色的繪畫才能卻80歲才開始從事繪畫，感到很吃驚。故選C。 （17）考查動(dòng)詞。A. use“使用”；B. lack“缺少”；C. add“增加”；D. provide“提供”。作者想到自己想要做一些能夠運(yùn)用到自己創(chuàng)作和藝術(shù)能力的事情。故選A。 （18）考查動(dòng)詞。句意：當(dāng)時(shí)，我30歲出頭，想做一些能充分發(fā)揮我的創(chuàng)造力和藝術(shù)才能的事情，不僅僅是作為一家公司的總裁所允許去做的事情。A. continue“繼續(xù)”；B. allow“允許”；C. fail“失敗”；D. process“處理”。故選B。 （19）考查形容詞。句意：我原來覺得在我人生的這個(gè)高級(jí)階段做出改變太困難了。A. difficult“困難的”；B. simple“簡單的”；C. active“活躍的”；D. strange“陌生的”。故選A。 （20）考查形容詞。句意：那天下午，我有限的信仰體系得到了擴(kuò)展！作者從老人八十歲學(xué)習(xí)藝術(shù)的事件中得到啟發(fā)，讓自己有限的信念得到了擴(kuò)展，A. open“公開的”；B. social“社會(huì)的”；C. new“新的”；D. limited“有限的”。故選D。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及動(dòng)詞，名詞，形容詞，副詞，連詞，固定短語等多個(gè)知識(shí)點(diǎn)的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在理解細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析推理，從而選出正確答案。6．閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Ferdinand de Lesseps, once a French diplomat(外交官)，became 1 with the cultures of the Mediterranean(地中海)and Middle East and the growth of western European 2 . But in 1849 he retired after a disagreement with the French government. In 1854, 3 his expectation, he returned to Egypt, 4 he was given a warm wele and, soon afterwards, permission to begin work 5 the Suez Canal. De Lesseps had been 6 by reading about Napoleon39。s abandoned plans for a 7 that would allow large ships wishing to sail to the east to go 8 from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, therefore 9 out the long sea journey around Africa. De Lesseps39。 plan was 10 by an International mission of engineers, but failed to win the support of the British government, 11 de Lesseps making a number of trips to London. He persevered and 12 attracted financial support from the French emperor Napoleon III and others. De Lesseps was no 13 173。 his achievement lay 14 organizing the necessary political and financial backing, and providing the technical support 15 for such a huge project. 16 began in April 1859, and the Suez Canal was 17 in November 1869. British attitudes changed when the canal was seen to be a 18 and de Lesseps was treated as a great celebrity (名人) on his later visit to Britain. In 1875, the Egyptian government sold its 19 , in the cana