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  Vincent Van Gogh is often remembered as the painter who cut off his ear in a fit of passion.He was a lonely man who often   1   without food in order to buy paints, a man with few friends and a   2   temper.Van Gogh’s strong emotions not only   3   his life, but his paintings.Many of Van Gogh’s paintings were   4   by warm, yellow sunlight because he loved how it could   5   the world in different ways.His painting Sunflowers for example, is   6   yellows and browns.These colors give the painting a   7   of warmth.However, the sunflowers are   8   dead and dying.

  The result is a painting that   9   the warmth of life that Van Gogh loved with the feelings of   10   that were all around him.It is a painting that is warm, beautiful and sad, all at the same time.

  Van Gogh’s most famous painting, The Starry Night,   11   this mixture of joy and sadness one step   12  .It is a landscape full of deep   13   and shadows which showed the sadness Van Gogh was feeling as he was painting,   14   what he was actually seeing.

  This is why Van Gogh’s   15   in his painting look more imagined than real.The stars and moon in The Starry Night are   16   bright, their light swirling above the darkening hills.A tree that looks like black fire cuts through the   17   of the night, interrupting its beauty.

  Because of his wild emotions, Van Gogh was not   18   during his life.He sold only one painting.However, people today who stand in front of Sunflowers or The Starry Night can   19   the same joy and sadness Van Gogh once did,   20   he painted those deep blues and sunny yellows.

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came

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gentle

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stormy

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developed

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inspired

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full in

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state

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touch

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actually

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simply

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entirely

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finally

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communicates

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mixes

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compares

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includes

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happiness

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excitement

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sadness

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worry

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continues

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raises

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takes

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further

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deeper

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closer

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greens

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voices

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pictures

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colors

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seldom

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unusually

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accordingly

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properly

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view

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environment

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surroundings

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sight

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understood

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noticed

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rewarded

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trusted

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experience

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recognize

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accept

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determine

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though

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however

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if

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as

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Tom Brennan was working in a Philadelphia office building when he noticed a black bag. The bag contained a book.

  This chance discovery ended a 12-day search by the Library Company of Philadelphia for a historical treasure-a 120-page diary kept 190 years ago by Deborah Logan,” a woman who knew everybody in her day,” James Green ,the librarian told the magazine American Libraries.

  Most of the diary is a record of big events in Philadelphia. It also includes a description of British soldiers burning Washington D.C. in the war of 1812. She describes President James Madison on horseback as "perfectly shaking with fear “during the troubled days. George Washington, she writes, mistook her for the wife of a French man and praised her excellent English.

  The adventure of the lost book began on September 4 when Cory Luxmoore arrived from England to deliver the diary of his ancestor(祖先)to the Library Company, which he and his wife considered to be the best home for the diary.

  Green told American Libraries he had the diary in his possession “ about five minutes” when Luxmoore took it back because he had promised to show it to one other person. On returning to his hotel after showing the precious book to Green, Luxmoore was shocked to realize that he had left it in the taxi.

  Without any delay, Green began calling every taxi company in the city, with no luck, "I've felt sick since then," Luxmoore told reporters.According to Green, no one has yet learned how the diary came to the office building .

   Tom Brennan received a reward(奖励)of 1,000, Philadelphia gained another treasure for its history , and Luxmoore told reporters, "It's wonderful news. I'm on high".

This article mainly tells about the story of ___________.

  A. a lost diary                          B. Deborah Logan  

C. Cory Luxmoore                  D. the Library Company

From the text, we learn that the diary is now owned by ___________.

  A. Tom Brennan              B. an unknown person

  C. a Philadelphia magazine                   D. the Library Company of Philadelphia

Philadelphia is thought to be the best home for the diary because ___________.

  A. it was written in Philadelphia   

B. it tells stories about Philadelphia

  C. people in the city are interested in old things

  D. the British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia

Which of the following shows the right order of what happened to the diary?

  a:Tom Brennan found the book in an office building.

  b:The book was shown to James Green.

  c: Cory Luxmoore arrived from England.

  d: The book was left behind in a taxi.

  A. a.b.c.d     B. c.b.d.a      C. a.c.d.b      D. c.a.b.d

What did Cory Luxmoore mean when he said "I'm on high"?

  A. I'm rich    B. I'm famous   C. I'm excited          D. I'm lucky.

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 Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country, keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.

  Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.

  On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first- class roads, and other support facilities(配套设施)needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.

  Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists , jobs and money are lost.

 Which of the following do you think has been discussed in the part before this selection?

  A. It is extremely important to develop tourism.

  B. Building roads and hotels is essential.

  C. Support facilities are highly necessary.

  D. Planning is of great importance to tourism.

 The underlined word“ inhabitants” (in Paragraph 1 ) probably means________.

  A. tourists            B. passengers

  C. population          D. citizens

 Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ________ .

  A. a bad effect on other industries

  B. a change of tourists’ customs

  C. over - crowdedness of places of interest

  D. pressure on traffic

 It can be inferred from the text that ________ .

  A. the author doesn’t like tourism developing so fast

  B. local people will benefit from tourist attraction

  C. other parts of a country’s economy won’t benefit from tourism much

  D. we can't build too many support facilities

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阅读下面短文,从先入为主后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

  Money is a blessing when it is used correctly.  1   is true of all other good things.They bless if used   2  ;they surse(诅咒)when misused.Many people do not seem to know   3   money is for.They want it above all other things.But they want to spend it chiefly on   4  

  Some boys and girls appear to   5   that money is used to buy good clothes,foods,toys and amusements.Some also seem to think that money is used to buy leisure(空闲).They   6   that the greatest happiness is to   7   without work.But that is not at all what money is for.We should get nearer to the   8   than that.

  Money is our circulating medium(流通手段)in trade.Families need it to buy things they must   9  .In this way society   10  ,and the world of traffic prospers(繁荣).Money means food,clothing,housing,schools,books,wise amuse ment,and the   11   of doing good.

  Of course money is not something to store.Its value   12   its use.A million gold dollars would have been   13   no more than a million stones   14   Robinson Crusoe on his island home.There was nothing to buy,and   15  ,no use for money.And so money that is   16   stored is of no value.It is not used to buy the necessaries of life,  17   help those who are in need.That is not what money is for.

  The Bible(《圣经》)  18   that“the love of money is the   19   of all evil”,That is,money sought only for its own sake(缘故)is the cause of all sorts of evillying,stealing,cheating,robbery,and   20   murder.This is the best reason for avoiding the love of money.

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children

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stay

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truth

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eat

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have

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changes

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ideas

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connects with

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considered

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imagined

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acted

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about

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writes

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considers

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top

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root

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place

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even

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still

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just

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only

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  Without most people realizing it, there has been a revolution(革命)in office work over the last ten years.Before that time, large computers were only used by large, rich companies that could afford the investment.With the advancement of technology, small computers have come onto the market, which are able to do the work that used to be done by much larger and expensive computers, so now most smaller companies can use them.

  The main development in small computers has been in the field of word processors(文字处理软件), or WPS as they are often called.40% of British offices are now estimated to have a word processor and this percentage is growing fast.

  There are many advantages in using a word processor for both secretary and manager.The secretary is freed from a lot of daily work, such as re-typing letters and storing papers.He or she can use this time to do other more interesting work for the boss.From a manager’s point of view, secretarial time is being made better use of and money can be saved by doing daily jobs automatically outside office hours.

  But is it all good?If a lot of daily secretarial work can be done automatically, surely this will mean that fewer secretaries will be needed.Another worry is the increasing medical problems related to work with visual display units(显示器).The case of a slow loss of sight among people using word processors seems to have risen greatly.It is also feared that if a woman works at a VDU for long hours, the unborn child in her body might be killed.Safety screens to put over a VDU have been invented but few companies in England bother to buy them.

  Whatever the arguments for and against word processor, they are a key feature(特征)of this revolution in office practice.

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