B)阅读短文,在文中空白处填入1个适当的单词,或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
What is art? According to the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary,
"Art consists of paintings, sculptures(雕塑) and other pictures or objects that
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(create) for
people to look at and admire or think deeply about."
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I don't agree with its opinion.
First, I don't think art is always "created for people to look at".
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(recent), I went to a museum where I saw a vase that was over five thousand years old.
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vase was used
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(hold) water from the river. When people made it, they weren't thinking about "art". Second, I don't think it is complete because it doesn't mention anything about skills.
There is one part of the opinion that I agree
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. I think art should make you think
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(deep). When you look at works of art, something would catch your eye and make you stop and wonder.
Leonardo da Vinci was a
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(talent) artist who studied for many years to learn his skills. His Mona Lisa is a true work of art. It looks like an ordinary
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(paint), but then something
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(make) you stop and wonder. What could she be smiling about? It isn't clear and it makes you think.
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解析:
【分析】
本题为英语短文填空,需结合语境、语法规则(时态语态、词性转换、固定搭配等)及上下文逻辑完成填空。解题思路:先通读全文理解大意,再逐个分析每个空的考点:1. 考查定语从句的被动语态;2. 考查表转折的连词;3. 考查作状语的副词;4. 考查表特指的定冠词;5. 考查固定搭配;6. 考查固定搭配;7. 考查修饰动词的副词;8. 考查修饰名词的形容词;9. 考查名词作表语;10. 考查不定代词作主语的谓语动词形式。
【解析】
1. 先行词是复数名词paintings, sculptures and other pictures or objects,与动词create是被动关系,描述客观事实用一般现在时,故填are created。
2. 前文介绍词典对艺术的定义,后文表示不同意,为转折关系,句首首字母大写,故填But。
3. 此处需副词修饰整个句子,recent的副词形式为Recently,句首首字母大写,故填Recently。
4. 特指前文提到的那个花瓶,用定冠词The,故填The。
5. 固定搭配be used to do sth. 表示“被用来做某事”,故填to hold。
6. 固定搭配agree with表示“同意(观点等)”,故填with。
7. 此处需副词修饰动词think,deep的副词形式为deeply,故填deeply。
8. 此处需形容词修饰名词artist,talent的形容词形式为talented,故填talented。
9. 形容词ordinary后需名词,paint的名词形式painting表示“画作”,故填painting。
10. 主语是不定代词something,时态为一般现在时,谓语动词用第三人称单数形式,故填makes。
【答案】
1. are created 2. But 3. Recently 4. The 5. to hold 6. with 7. deeply 8. talented 9. painting 10. makes
【知识点】
动词的时态和语态;词性转换;固定搭配;冠词;连词
【点评】
本题考查英语基础语法与词汇的综合运用,涵盖被动语态、词性变化、固定搭配等核心考点,需结合上下文逻辑分析,是初中英语常见的短文填空题型,难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.6