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第二节阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，共10分) (2013 •山东)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到题后相应 的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求) 。

    [1 ] Jean Paul Getty was bom in 1892 in Minneapolis,Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24.His father was wealthy,but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty the richest man in the world.

   [2] But money. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty's children had very happy lives.

    [3] Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth,Getty was a miser. Every evening,he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephones in the guests’ bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.

  [4] In 1973,kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson,and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty's son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty5s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally,Getty agreed to lend the money,but at 4 percent interest.

    [5 ] Getty started a museum at his home in Malibu,California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976,the value of the collection in the museum was $ 1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death,the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life,but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.

50. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1 ? (no more than 8 words)

51. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)

52. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3.

53. What did the kidnappers do to Getty's family? (no more than 10 words)

54. What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)

Answer 1

50. Getty was a self-made millionaire. /Getty became rich through his own efforts.

51. didn't buy happiness for Getty/didn't bring him happiness/didn't make him happy 52. Though he was very rich,Getty was very mean./Though he was very rich,Getty hated to spend money.

53. They took Getty's grandson and asked for money. /They kidnapped Getty's grandson and demanded much ( a lot of) money.

54. Getty made a great contribution to the art world. /Getty had another side.