The artist said that he hoped ___ drawing the picture soon.
| A．his son to finish | B．to finish | C．finishing | D．his son will finish |
开心练习课课练与单元检测系列答案科目：初中英语 来源：2013-2014学年江西省九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer
but gave up His highl
y-paid
(高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in
his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored
bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He
started by building small models but then decided to do something big and
created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the
eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in
museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the
same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is
fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the
Bri
ck"
has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty. B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait. D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013年初中毕业升学考试（江西南昌卷）英语（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty.
B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait.
D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014届江苏宝应县南片六校初二下学期5月份月度调研英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Ruby, the artist, is an Asian elephant, She is17 years old. She lives in the zoo. Ruby has produced about 100 paintings since last year. She has made more than $ 40,000 for the zoo. Zoo leaders say Ruby first showed the talent (才能) about four years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks in the sand with her trunk. She rubbed (擦掉) out the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo worker gave her brushes and paints. Soon Ruby painted pictures.
Newspaper reporters wrote Ruby, then people asked about buying her pictures. And in this way, she made a lot of money for the zoo. This is how Ruby does the paintings. A zoo worker holds different color paints. Ruby touches the colors she wants. Then the worker gives her brushes with the chosen colors in her trunk and Ruby begins painting.
1.We can most probably read this story_______.
A．in a dictionary about read animals B．in a newspaper
C．in a book on art D．in history textbooks
2.People asked about buying Ruby's pictures because_______.
A．newspaper reporters bought her picture
B．her pictures were better than those of real artists
C．they just wanted to have fun
D．zoo workers would let them have a free visit to the park
3.Ruby rubbed out the marks she had drawn in order to_______.
A．make other ones B．clear her trunk
C．dig a hole in the sand D．ask for brushes and paints
4.From the story, we can know that_______.
A．Ruby can paint a picture all by herself
B．Ruby can draw better pictures than the other animals in the zoo
C．Ruby has to finish a painting with the help of zoo workers
D．Ruby will ask for money if she finishes a picture
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江苏东台头灶中学九年级下学期中考训练英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
An artist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and brushes and painted from morning to evening, and then when it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.
At the end of his holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, “No, I don’t want money… but give me one of your pictures. What is money? In a week it will all be finished, but your painting will still be here.”
The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his pictures. The farmer smiled and answered, “It’s not that. I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes home next month, I’ll show him your picture, and he will not want to be an artist any more, I think. ”
1.__________ people are mentioned (提到) in the article.
A．Two B．Three C．One D．Many
2.The artist lived with the farmer __________.
A．for about a month B．for a year
C．for a holiday D．for the farmer’s son
3.The farmer asked the artist to give him a picture because __________.
A．he liked his picture
B．he didn’t want his money
C．he wanted to sell his pictures for some money
D．he wanted to show it to his son
4.The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer because __________.
A．the farmer didn’t want him to pay him
B．the farmer decided to let his son learn from him
C．the farmer’s son would be an artist like him
D．he thought the farmer praised (表扬) him for his pictures
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年浙江杭州萧山区新围初中九年级上学期测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
There was a famous church in London. It was 110 meters high. The center of the church was like a bell. The ceiling of the church was painted by a famous artist. A platform （平台）was built so that the artist could put up the ladder on it and paint the ceiling. The platform was about 70 meters over the ground.
One day the artist was working hard and had nearly finished one popular corner of the ceiling. Also on the platform was his assistant, who was mixing paints. The artist stepped back so that he could see how his work was progressing. To have a better look at his painting, he stepped back again. Suddenly, his assistant shouted, picked up a small bowl of paint and started to paint the artist’s work on the top. The artist was very angry and rushed forwards to stop him.
“What do you think you are doing?” he shouted angrily. “Are you mad?” His assistant replied, “I saw you walking backwards to have a better look at your painting. But you didn’t notice that you had reached the very edge of the platform. You were in great danger. I wanted to make you move forwards. If I had not made you run forwards, you would have fallen backwards off the edge of the platform.
1.The story happened in ______.
A．America B．France C．German D．England
2.Why did the artist step back again?
A．To see how his work was progressing. B．To have a better look at his painting.
C．To paint a bow in his painting. D．To pour some paint on his painting.
3.What did the assistant do to stop the artist falling off the platform?
A．He painted a famous painting himself. B．He ran forwards to stop him.
C．He shouted to the artist and painted his painting. D．He stopped mixing the paints.
4.Which picture shows the same situation as the underlined sentence in Paragraph2?
Note: a: artist b: assistant c: painting ←: the direction of the movement.
5.After reading the passage, what do you think the artist would probably do?
A．He would be angry with what the assistant had done.
B．He would punish the assistant for having destroyed his painting.
C．He would be thankful to be the assistant for having saved his life.
D．He wouldn’t allow the assistant to work with him any more.
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