There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists _____1_____. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he ____2_____
liked and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a ___3___ lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering ___4____ were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a _____5_____ picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains too. But there were rugged and ____6____. Above was an ____7____ sky from which rain fell, in which lightening ____8____. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look ____9____at all.
But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny ____10____growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her ____11____. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, ____12____ the mother bird on her nest…perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize?
The King ____13____ the second picture.
Do you know why?
“Because,” explained the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, ___14___, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your ____15___. That is the real meaning of peace.”
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【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】B
【小题5】D
【小题6】A
【小题7】C
【小题8】D
【小题9】B
【小题10】C
【小题11】D
【小题12】A
【小题13】B
【小题14】C
【小题15】D
解析试题分析：文章通过国王征集最宁静的艺术品，通过两幅画的对比告诉我们真正的宁静是心底的宁静。
【小题1】B 动词辨析。A系，捆；B尝试；C死亡；D采矿；指很多艺术家都尝试创作这样一幅作品。
【小题2】C 副词辨析。A可能的；B一般。C真地；D最后。指有两幅画都是他真正喜欢的。
【小题3】A 上下文串联。根据下文对这幅画的描述，说明这是一个宁静的湖泊。
【小题4】B 上下文串联。根据下段第一句The other picture had mountains too说明这幅画里也有山。
【小题5】D 形容词辨析。A可怕的；B糟糕的；C可怕的；D完美的；指这是一幅完美的宁静的画。
【小题6】A 形容词辨析，A光秃的；B厚的；C强壮的；D英俊的；指山是光秃的。
【小题7】C 形容词辨析。根据下文下雨，这是一种修辞的法。说明太空好像在发怒；
【小题8】D 动词辨析。A预测；B淹死；C期待；这里的play与In连用表示闪电在划过天空。
【小题9】B 上下文串联。这样的场景是一点也不宁静。
【小题10】C 上下文串联，根据下文可知在灌木丛中有一个鸟窝。
【小题11】D 名词辨析，A房间；B厨房；C厕所；D窝。进行同上。
【小题12】A 动词辨析。本题是一个倒装句，指鸟妈妈站在窝中央。
【小题13】B 动词辨析。A去除；B选择；C抛弃；D推迟；指国王选择了第二幅。
【小题14】C 上下文串联。上文的noise下文的hard work说明都是指一些困难麻烦的事情，故trouble正确。
【小题15】D 上下文串联。真正的宁静是在心里。
考点：考查人生百态类完型
点评：整个完形填空大题，设空科学合理，考生不难从中领会大意，从而下手会比较顺利，从选项中可以看出，本大题主要还是考查了词汇的辨析与运用，但更加注重综合语言能力的运用，需要根据故事情节，了解词汇用法的同时，结合语境，做出准确的判断。
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"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.
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"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ____10_____ them or treasure them. They are not _______11____ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to _____12_____one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.
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2. A. anxiously B. sadly C. quietly D. patiently
3. A. knowledge B. skills C. brain D. eyes
4. A. ugly B. beautiful C. strange D. useful
5. A. legs B. cars C. jewels D. banknotes
6. A. lovely B. optimistic C. angry D. willing
7. A. charge B. buy C. exchange D. change
8. A. precious B. useless C. extra D. special
9. A. wept B. demonstrated C. smiled D. yelled
10. A. see B. realize C. keep D. hold
11. A. grateful B. careful C. meaningful D. faithful
12. A. get B. grasp C. have D. lose
13. A. take B. make C. set D. sell
14. A. wrongly B. wisely C. naturally D. really
15. A. old B. used C. 
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| A．Culture. | B．News. | C．Story. | D．Travel. |
| A．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families. |
| B．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. |
| C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. |
| D．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. |
| A．weaken | B．develop | C．stretch | D．disappear |
| A．treated hospitably at his home | B．offered a ride to his home |
| C． warmly welcomed at the airport | D．treated to dinner in a restaurant |
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| C．different views of friendship | D．friendships between Americans |
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B. Because he was tired of office work .
C. Because he wanted to be devoted to astronomy .
D. Because he couldn’t control himself sometimes .
73. The larger and more powerful telescope at Mount Wilson_______.
A. belonged to the state of Kentucky
B. was once the most powerful
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D. He showed little interest in sports while studying astronomy at college .
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第三部分 写作（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
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the donkey was given much food than it could eat. This made the goat 67. ____________
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“Hey,” the goat said one day, “I thought you do too much work on 69. ____________
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1.In which part of a newspaper can this article be found?
A．Culture. B．News. C．Story. D．Travel.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
B．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
D．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
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