【正文】 rief life with activity. The French painter spent his early childhood in Peru before returning to France. As an adult, he continued to travel a lot. Most famously, he spent much of the last decade of his life in Tahiti, an island in southern Pacific Ocean. Indeed, Gauguin is best known for his colorful paintings of Tahitians and their culture. The restlessness of this great painter has been normal among modern artists since the middle of the 19th century. They39。re never satisfied for long with a certain style or way of life. Once something bees conventional, it39。s turned down. The artistic culture that Gauguin developed from was that of Impressionism (印象派). Painters like Claude Monet had wanted to paint how they saw the world, not how their teachers taught them it should be seen. Gauguin, and similar artists like his friend Vincent van Gogh, moved even further away from respectable art than the Impressionists. For them, it was not simply a matter of seeing the world differently, but feeling and thinking about it differently, too. Gauguin saw, felt and thought differently from most members of European society. He thought that European culture was too fancy and not spontaneous. This is why he turned to the traditions of other parts of the world, like Africa, and, eventually, Tahiti. Artists like Gauguin used the word primitive for these cultures, but not as a negative term. For him, Europe, in being modem, industrial and scientific, seemed less natural than other parts of the world. In truth, Gauguin39。s paintings may be unconventional but they are certainly not primitive. They are the work of a painter with great awareness of what he was doing. It was this awareness that made him such an important painter for those that came after, in the 20th century. When we look closely at the works of Gauguin we begin to understand Pablo Picasso, and especially Henri Matisse, a little better.（1）What can we infer about Gauguin39。s life? A.He had an unhappy childhood.B.He lived most of his life in Peru.C.He enjoyed painting in Tahiti.D.He preferred a traditional life style.（2）What39。s the main purpose of Paragraph 4? A.To explain why Gauguin39。s works were popular.B.To point out where Gauguin39。s inspiration came from.C.To show Gauguin39。s different understanding of painting.D.To pare Gauguin39。s painting style with Vincent van Gogh39。s.（3）Which of the following best explains spontaneous underlined in Paragraph 5? A.NaturalB.ModernC.IndustrialD.Scientific（4）The author mentions Picasso and Matisse in the last paragraph to show ________. A.their styles are different from Gauguin39。sB.great artists share many similaritiesC.they are as important as GauguinD.Gauguin39。s influence on their works【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇人物傳記，今年是Gauguin誕辰170周年。他只活了54年，但他短暫的一生充滿了活力。這篇文章介紹了著名畫家Gauguin的生平及其作品。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Indeed, Gauguin is best known for his colorful paintings of Tahitians and their culture.“事實上，Gauguin最為人所知的是他對塔希提人和他們的文化的豐富多彩的繪畫。”可知，他喜歡在塔希提島畫畫。故選C。 （2）考查段落大意。根據(jù)第四段中的“The artistic culture that Gauguin developed from was that of Impressionism (印象派).”Gauguin發(fā)展起來的藝術(shù)文化是印象派；以及“Gauguin, and similar artists like his friend Vincent van Gogh, moved even further away from‘respectable’ art than the Impressionists. ”Gauguin和他的朋友文森特梵高（Vincent van Gogh）等類似藝術(shù)家比印象派畫家更遠離“受人尊敬的”藝術(shù)?？芍谒亩蔚哪康氖恰罢故綠auguin對繪畫的不同理解。”故選C。 （3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第五段中的“For him, Europe, in being modem, industrial and scientific, seemed less natural than other parts of the world.”在他看來，歐洲在走向現(xiàn)代化、工業(yè)化和科學(xué)化的過程中，似乎沒有世界其他地區(qū)那么自然?！庇纱送浦狧e thought that European culture was too fancy and not spontaneous. 中劃線詞的意思是“自然的”。故選A。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“It was this awareness that made him such an important painter for those that came after, in the 20th century. When we look closely at the works of Gauguin we begin to understand Pablo Picasso, and especially Henri Matisse, a little better. ”正是這種意識使他成為20世紀(jì)后來者的重要畫家。當(dāng)我們仔細(xì)觀察Gauguin的作品時，我們開始更好地理解畢加索，尤其是馬蒂斯?！笨芍?，作者在最后一段中提到了畢加索和馬蒂斯，以展示Gauguin對他們作品的影響。故選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測和段落大意三個題型的考查，是一篇人物類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. After some blood tests, Dr Stubs stood before me, a tall man, but short on personality and sporting a cold expression. You have systemic lupus, he said matteroffactly. Lupus, he continued, is an autoimmune disease and …. I remember certain details but mostly I remember him talking about children. Children are no harm. But childbirth would jumpstart additional symptoms that could be life threatening. You already have two kids anyway. As I got up to leave, shaken and drained, he said his parting words, I would discourage any further research. 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