Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was born is Spain. There is no doubt he was one of the ________artists of the twentieth century. ________ he was a small child, he could draw and paint very well. ________the age of nineteen years old, he visited art galleries（陈列室） in Paris to learn ________ other artists. Picasso was _________ important painter who invented new ways of painting. For one period of his life, he used mainly blue in his paintings. Then with his friend, Georges Braque, he invented a way of painting called Cubism（立体派）. He tried ________ round shapes look flat（公寓）.

When a war broke in Spain, it made Picasso very _______ and angry. During the war, a town ________ Guernica was destroyed. So he made a large painting, ________ the name of Guernica, about the war. In the picture, a woman is crying and a horse is making a loud high noise. This painting, which is very famous, shows us _________ Picasso felt about the war.

1.A. great                             B. greater                    C. greatest

2.A. When                            B. Where          C. What

3.A. In                         B. At                C. On

4.A. front                              B. from                        C. for

5.A. a                               B. the                            C. an

6.A. to make             B. make        C. makes

7.A. happy             B. glad            C. sad

8.A. call                          B. called             C. calls

9.A. with                     B. without                 C. of

10.A. what                   B. how                           C. where

Can you make a telephone call? Of course you can make it in Chinese. But a call in English is quite different from one in Chinese. If you want to ask somebody to answer the telephone, you can not say. "Please ask Mr. XX to answer (接) the telephone. "Instead (代替), you must say, "May I speak to Mr. XX ?"If you want to ask who is answering the phone, you should say ,"Who is that?" "Is that Mr. XX (speaking)?"Instead of "Who are you ?"If you want to tell the other one who you are, you should say, "This is XX (speaking)instead of（而不是）"I am XX."

( ) 26. An English telephone is ____________ a Chinese one.

A. as good as　 B. better than　 C. the same as D. not the same as (与)

( )27. If you want to tell the people who you are, you should say, " _____　 "

A. This is XX　　 B. I am XX　 C. That is XX　 D. He is XX

( )28. If you want to ask who is answering the phone , you should say, " __　 ".

A. Who am I?　　 B. Who is he?　 C. Who are you?　 D. Who is that?

( ) 29. If you want to ask someone to answer the call, you can say, " _______ ".

A. May I speak to Mr. XX　 B. Please tell Mr. XX to answer the call.

C. I want to talk to Mr. XX?　 D. Are you Mr. XX?

( ) 30. Which is right about the passage?

A. It tells the difference between making a call in Chinese and one in English.

B. We know how we call in English.

C. We don't understand how we call in English. D. It's easy to call in English.