5.We waited for the report of exam with ________anxiety.

A.a great deal of   B.a great number of

C.a great many   D.a plenty of

解析：选A。考查短语辨析。因为anxiety为不可数名词，排除B、C;D项的正确形式应为plenty of。

6.All her attention is ________ on her children and she seems to have little time for anything else.

A.guided   B.aimed

C.directed   D.concentrated

解析：选D。考查词语辨析。句意：她把自己所有的注意力都放在了孩子身上，她似乎没有一点儿时间干别的。“专注于”用concentrate one’s attention on表示。guide“引导”，aim“旨在;目标是”，direct“指引;指示”都不符合语境。

7.More and more heart patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical ________.

A.techniques   B.skills

C.abilities   D.system

解析：选A。考查词语辨析。句意：由于外科技术的改进，越来越多的心脏病患者活了下来。technique“技术;技巧”符合语境。skill“技能”，ability“能力”，system“系统;体系”都不符合题意。

8.This is ________.You’ve only known him for three days，and you’re going on holiday with him!

A.ridiculous   B.religious

C.obvious   D.serious

解析：选A。考查词语辨析。句意：这简直太荒唐了。你才认识他三天就和他一起去度假。ridiculous“荒谬的;可笑的”。religious“宗教的”。obvious“明显的”，serious“严肃的;严重的”。

9.The rain was heavy yesterday.________，the roads were flooded.

A.As a result of   B.As a consequence

C.Consequence   D.In consequence of

解析：选B。考查短语辨析。句意：昨天雨很大，结果路被冲毁了。A项和D项是介词短语，后接宾语。C项是名词，不能作状语。as a consequence=as a result。

10.That Jill was worried seemed ________to everyone present at the meeting.

A.constant   B.evident

C.precious   D.rough

解析：选B。句意：吉尔很担心，出席会议的每个人似乎对这一点都很清楚。evident“清楚的”，constant“持续的”，precious“珍贵的”，rough“粗糙的;困难的”。

Ⅳ.阅读理解

A

Since my retirement(退休) from teaching music in 2001，I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist.I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died，so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father，or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him.In any case，I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes(风景画) much influenced(影响) by Krenkel and St.John for five years.

For some strange reason，I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again，but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth，who quickly became my favorite artist.I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look.So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting.However，watercolors remained my first choice，and I think I did my best work there，showing my paintings at a number of art exhibitions.

Art is now together with my piano playing and reading.There is a time for everything in my world，and it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do.As Confucius once said，“At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”

1.What is the text mainly about?

A.Learning to paint in later life.

B.How to paint watercolors.

C.An artist-turned teacher.

D.Life after retirement.

解析：选D。这是一道主旨题。文章主要讲述作者退休后开始学习绘画的故事，表面看似乎在讲如何学习绘画。但是最后一段提到了piano playing and reading，并根据“it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do”可知作者的目的是讲退休后丰富的生活。

2.The author started drawing again in 1995 because ________.

A.he hoped to draw a picture of his father

B.he couldn’t stop missing his father

C.he had more time after retirement

D.he liked animals and landscapes

解析：选B。这是一道推理题。从第一段“perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father，”可知作者想从思念父亲中转移注意力，从而推理出作者十分想念父亲。

3.We can infer from the text that the author ________.

A.had been taught by Krenkel and St.John

B.painted landscapes in Minnesota for 5 years

C.believed Wyeth to be the best in watercolors

D.started his retirement life at the age of seventy

解析：选C。这是一道推理题。从“...found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look”作者发现Andrew Wyeth的画是最接近作者认为最好水彩画的标准，也就是说作者认为Andrew Wyeth的水彩画最好。

4.How does the author probably feel about his life as an artist?

A.Very enjoyable.

B.A bit regretful.

C.Rather busy.

D.Fairly dull.

解析：选A。这是一道推理题。根据最后一段“There is a time for everything in my world and it is wonderful...”可知作者很享受这种艺术生活。

B

Land Art，sometimes referred to as Earth Art or Earthworks，is a form of art which involves using physical landscapes to create art，taking art out of the museum and into the outside world.Modern Land Art movement really got going in the 1960s，when American artists began creating Land Art on a large scale.Today，works of modern Land Art can be seen all over the world，sometimes right alongside much older pieces of Land Art created by people who lived thousands of years ago.

Land art，which is not necessarily unchangeable，can take a number of forms.For example，in 1970 Robert Smithson created the Spiral Jetty(螺旋码头)，made of a collection of stones and mud，in the Great Salt Lake.The American artist made a large jetty in a spiral shape which sticks out into the waters of the lake.

Reshaping the landscape is a common feature of Land Art.It can be created by moving components(组成部分) around.People can also add things to the environment to create Land Art，like salt，which is added to the Spiral Jetty.It is possible to use plants.In all cases，Land Art is immovable.

Land Art is designed to evolve(逐步形成)，change，and eventually decay (衰落).That’s one of the biggest differences between Land Art and most of the art one sees in the museums.Some works of art can exist only for a few hours or days.Others are exposed to rain and wind so that they evolve and decay over time，which is part of the attractiveness in the eyes of the artist.

5.From Paragraph 1，we can learn that ________.

A.Land Art aims to get people interested in nature

B.American artists were the first to create Land Art

C.Land Art was the most popular art in the 1960s

D.people have been creating Land Art for thousands of years

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第一段的末句可知，地景艺术的存在有几千年的历史了。

6.All of the following are used to design the Spiral Jetty EXCEPT ________.

A.stones   B.plants

C.salt   D.mud

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第二段第二句中“made of a collection of stones and mud”以及第三段第三句中“like salt，which is added to the Spiral Jetty”可知，在创造Spiral Jetty时，艺术家使用了石头、泥土和盐。

7.What do we know about Robert Smithson?

A.He is an American artist.

B.He is a pioneer in creating Land Art.

C.He created the most famous Land Art.

D.He lives near the Great Salt Lake.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句中的the American artist可知Robert Smithson是美国的一名艺术家。

8.Land Art is attractive to the artists partly because ________.

A.it makes use of the landscape around

B.it offers the artists a chance to change nature

C.it will develop and be destroyed gradually by natural processes

D.it shows the extreme beauty of nature because artists use natural material

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据最后一段的最后一句可知地景艺术对艺术家来说有吸引力的一个原因是随着时间的流逝，它会发生变化，直至衰落。

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