On the second floor, ___a young man, who was an artist.
A、there had
B、there lived
C、there have
D、there has
Any exporter who wants to sell his products in a foreign country or countries must first ________ a lot of market research.
A.instruct
B.destruct
C.conduct
D.induct
If we work with a strong will, we can overcome any difficulty, what great it is.()
If we work with a strong will, we can overcome any difficulty,( )great it is.
A．what
B．how
C． however
D． whatever
正确答案：C
C[解析]however这里的意思不是“然而”，而是“无论多么”的意思，用来引导一个表示让步的状语从句．however great it is意思是：无论困难多么的大．本题应该选C．
As expected, the boy who shows great _______ in playing badminton has been admitted to the sport university for his talent.
A.request
B.respect
C.addition
D.promise
答案：D
解析：
本题考查名词辨析
D选项，句意为“正如所预料的那样，这个在羽毛球方面有前途的男孩凭借他的才能被体育大学录取了”。promise“承诺；前途”，综上，D选项正确。
A选项，request“要求”，故排除。
B选项，respect“尊敬”，故排除。
C选项，addition“额外”，故排除。
故正确答案为D项。
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One would think that in a world torn by economic problems,a world that constantly worries about economic affairs and talks of economic issues,the great economists would be as familiar as the great philosophers or statesmen.Instead they are oniy shadowy figures of the past,ancl the matters they so passionately debated are regarded with a kind of distant awe.Economics,it is said,is undeniably important,but it is cold and difficult,and best left to those who are at home in perplexing realms of thought.Nothing could be further from the truth.A man who thinks that economics is only a matter for professors forgets that this is the science that has sent men to the battlefield.A man who has looked into an economics textbook and concluded that economics is boring is like a man who has read a basic book on tactics and decided that the study of warfare must be dull No,the great economists pursued an inquiry as exciting-and as dangerous-as any the world has ever known.The ideas they dealt with,unlike the ideas of the great philosophers,did not make little difference to our daily working lives;the experiments they urged could not,like the scientists',be carried out in the isolation of a laboratory.The notions of the great economists were world-shaking,and their mistakes nothing short of calamitous."The ideas of economists and political philosophers,"wrote Lord Keynes,himself a great economist,"both when they are right and when they are wrong,are more powerful than is commonly unclerstood.Indeed the world is ruled by little else.Practical men,who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences,are usually the slaves of some departed economist.Madmen in authority,who hear voices in the air,are extracting their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas."The great economists can be called worldly philosophers,for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of all of man's activities-his drive for wealth.It is not,perhaps,the most elegant kind of philosophy,but there is no more intriguing or more important one,Who would think to look for Order and Design in a poor family and a speculator breathlessly awaiting ruin,or seek Consistent Laws and Principles in a mob marching in a street and a greengrocer smiling at his customers?Yet it was the faith of the great economists that just such seemingly unrelated threads could be woven into a single fabric,that at a sufficient distance the chaotic world could be seen as an orderly progression,and the noise resolved into a harmony.
答案：
解析：
虽说经济学的重要性无可否认，但它既冷僻又艰深，最好还是留给那些在高深思维领域驾轻就熟之人。
Her father was an artist who sometimes ___________as a tour guide.
A.works
B.worked
C.has worked
D.must work
答案：B
解析：
考查动词时态。主句用的是一般过去时，从句谓语动词也用一般过去时。一般过去时可以表示过去某一段时间内经常或反复发生的动作，常和often，usually，always，sometimes，every day等时间状语连用。句意为“他的父亲过去是位艺术家，有时候也当导游”。故选B。
Emerging in the late Sixties and reaching a peak in the Seventies,Land Art was one of a range of new forms,including Body Art,Performance Art,Action Art and Installation Art,which pushed art beyond the traditional confines of the studio and gallery.Rather than portraying landscape,land artists used the physical substance of the land itself as their medium.The British Land Art,typified by Long's piece,was not only more domestically scaled,but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.Indeed,while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves,Long's photograph of his work is the work.Since his“action”is in the past,the photograph is its sole embodiment.That might seem rather an obscure point,but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of blackandwhite photographs and relatively few natural objects.Long is Britain's bestknown Land Artist and his Stone Circle,a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor,represents the elegant,rarefied side of the form.The Boyle Family,on the other hand,stands for its dirty,urban aspect.Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children,they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls.Their Olaf Street Study,a square of brickstrewn waste ground,is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.Parks feature,particularly in the earlier works,such as John Hilliard's very funny Across the Park,in which a longhaired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns,gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs.While it probably wasn't apparent at the time,much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood.Derek Jarman's yellowtinted film Towards Avebury,a collection of long,mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape,evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.In the case of Hamish Fulton,you can't help feeling that the Scottish artist has simply founda way of making his love of walking pay.A typical work,such as Seven Days,consists of a single beautiful blackandwhite photograph taken on an epic walk,with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.British Land Art as shown in this well selected,but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn't about imposing on the landscape,more a kind of landscapeorientated light conceptual art created passing through.It had its origins in the great outdoors,but the results were as gallerybound as the paintings of Turner and Constable.Towards Avebury_____
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art
E.depicts the ordinary si
答案：C
解析：
特征词对比根据题干中的关键词定位到第六段第三句话。这句话的主干部分Towards Avebury…evokes a tradition of English landscape painting所表达的意思是《走向埃夫伯里石》唤起了人们对英国山风景画传统的记忆。从同义替换的角度来看，C项的reminds对应原文中的evokes，English landscape painting tradition对应原文中的a tradition of English landscape painting。
Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of artmarket history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst,Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,at Sotheby's in London on September 15th,2008.All but two pieces sold,fetching more than￡70m,a record for a sale by a single artist.It was a last victory.As the auctioneer called out bids,in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street,Lehman Brothers,filed for bankruptcy.The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.At its peak in 2007 it was worth some$65 billion,reckons Clare McAndrew,founder of Arts Economics,a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.Since then it may have come down to$50 billion.But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth,enormous egos,greed,passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale,spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable.In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms.Sales of contemporary art fell by twothirds,and in the most overheated sector,they were down by nearly 90%in the year to November 2008.Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses,Sotheby's and Christie's,had to pay out nearly$200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989.This time experts reckon that prices are about 40%down on their peak on average,though some have been far more fluctuant.But Edward Dolman,Christie's chief executive,says:“I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom.”What makes this slump different from the last,he says,is that there are still buyers in the market.Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.The three Ds—death,debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away,waiting for confidence to return.
In the first paragraph,Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as“a last victory”because_____
A.the art market had witnessed a succession of victories
B.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
C.Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
D.it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
答案：D
解析：
推理题【命题思路】这是一道因果推理题。考生需要找出原因和结果。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“first paragraph”和“last victory”定位到第一段的倒数第二句“it was a last victory”。it指代文章前面所叙述的赫斯特作品大卖，创造了极佳的销售业绩。由第一句话可知，这个持续时间最长的艺术品市场牛市以赫斯特的作品成功拍卖而终止。而出现这一现象的原因在首段尾句进行了总结：“as the auctioneer called out bids,…，Lehman Brothers,filed for bankruptcy”，D项中的world financial crisis是原文中filed for bankruptcy的同义替换。因此，D项为正确选项。
Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of artmarket history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst,Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,at Sotheby's in London on September 15th,2008.All but two pieces sold,fetching more than￡70m,a record for a sale by a single artist.It was a last victory.As the auctioneer called out bids,in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street,Lehman Brothers,filed for bankruptcy.The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.At its peak in 2007 it was worth some$65 billion,reckons Clare McAndrew,founder of Arts Economics,a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.Since then it may have come down to$50 billion.But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth,enormous egos,greed,passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale,spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable.In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms.Sales of contemporary art fell by twothirds,and in the most overheated sector,they were down by nearly 90%in the year to November 2008.Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses,Sotheby's and Christie's,had to pay out nearly$200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989.This time experts reckon that prices are about 40%down on their peak on average,though some have been far more fluctuant.But Edward Dolman,Christie's chief executive,says:“I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom.”What makes this slump different from the last,he says,is that there are still buyers in the market.Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.The three Ds—death,debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away,waiting for confidence to return.
The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are____
A.auction houses'favorites
B.contemporary trends
C.factors promoting artwork circulation
D.styles representing Impressionists
答案：C
解析：
细节题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式细节题。从全篇文章的结构来看，段落之间没有出现明显的转折关系，即文章的主题没有发生改变。通常在这种模式下，文章最后一段是主旨的重申。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“Three Ds”和“last paragraph”定位到最后一段第三句话“the three Ds—death,…to the market”，破折号中间的内容是对three Ds的解释说明，意为：3Ds依然为市场输送艺术品。而前一句话又提到，在当前的市场中缺少的不是对艺术品的需求，而是好卖的艺术品。因此C项为正确答案，“promoting art work circulation”等同于原文中的“deliver work of art to the market”。此外，只有C项提到了文章的主题“艺术品”。【干扰排除】文章第三段最后一句通过描述两家拍卖行的销售额表明目前艺术品市场的衰退现象，但并未提及拍卖行最爱的艺术品，故排除A项。文中的contemporary指contemporary arts（当代艺术品），而非contemporary trend，B项属于张冠李戴，故排除。D项中的Impressionist出自第四段的首句，但与本题无关。
