1、为明学校学生限时训练 高三英语阅读每日一练 使用时间: 组编人: 阅读限时练8班级: 姓名: 小组: 分数: 卷面: A卷 Task1 Salvador Dali (19041989) was one of the most popular of modern artists.The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with an exhibition bringing together over 200 pain
2、tings，sculptures，drawings and more.Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces，most importantly The Persistence of Memory.There is also LEnigme sans Fin from 1938，works on paper，objects，and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television progr
3、ammes reflecting the artists showman qualities.The visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning，the world of birth.The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between
4、two infinities (无限)，“From the infinity small to the infinity large，contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus：amazing Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museumtheatre in Figueras，” explains the Pompidou Centre.The fine selection of the major works wa
5、s done in close collaboration (合作)with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid，Spain，and with contributions from other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St.Petersburg，Florida.1Which of the following best describes Dali according to Paragraph 1?来源:学,科,网AOptimistic. BProductive. CGenerous
6、. DTraditional.2What is Dalis The Persistence of Memory considered to be?AOne of his masterworks. BA successful screen adaptation.CAn artistic creation for the stage. DOne of the best TV programmes.3How are the exhibits arranged at the World of Dali?ABy popularity.BBy importance.来源:学,科,网CBy size and
7、 shape.DBy time and subject.4What does the word “contributions” in the last paragraph refer to?AArtworks. BProjects. CDonations. DDocuments.Task 2：词汇积累1. n赞美，钦佩，羡慕be struck with admiration 2 n个性；性格；品格a man with little personality 3reflect v 4contraction n5expansion nthe expansion of currency 来源:Zxxk
8、.Com6.institution nTask 3：语法填空_1_ (sit)on a sofa in her room，Welty，_2_ slim figure in a simple gray dress，looked pleased with this _3_ (explain)“I dont make them up，” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.“I dont have to.”Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people
9、with purple hats，Weltys people come from afternoons spent _4_ (visit)with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss.，from conversations overheard on a bus._5_ annoys Welty that，at 78，her left ear has now given out.Sometimes，sitting on a bus or a train，she hears only a fra
10、gment(片段) of a _6_ (particular)interesting story.Task 4：短文改错(下面文字有五处错误，请改正)On one of her trip to New York several years ago，Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to the dinner.They settled in at the comfortable East Side caf and within minutes，another customer was approaching
11、 their table.Without the second thought，the customer joined in the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chair.Task 5：攻克长难句(分析句子结构，尝试翻译成汉语)来源:学_科_网来源:学+科+网Z+X+X+KThe visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning，the world of birth.分析：这是一个由and连接的并列句，谓语动词分别是与译文：
