Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His ...

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.

When he was nineteen, he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. In 1973, he was dead. He is the greatest artist in the world.

任务 2 ：阅读短文，根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

1.v_______ to go and spend time in a place

2.p_______ someone who paints pictures

任务 3 ：阅读短文，进行同义句转换，每空一词。

3.When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

When he was ________ ________ ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

任务 4 ：根据短文内容 回答问题。

4.Who did Pablo Picasso learn to draw from?

__________________________________________.

5.How old was Pablo Picasso when he died?

__________________________________________.

6.Was Pablo Picasso born in the nineteenth century?

__________________________________________.

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Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize— “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know. When he was nineteen, he visited Paris.

Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life.

When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials.

When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old.

根据短文内容完成下列问题。

1. What did Pablo Picasso’s father do?

A.A teacher. 　 B.A painter.

C.An artist.　 D.A painter and art teacher.

2.What prize did he win when he was fifteen?

A.Science and Painting.

B.Science and Art.C.Science and

C.harity.

D.Painting and Charity.

3.Where was he born and where did he visit when he was nineteen?

A.Paris and Spain.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.London and Paris.

C.Spain and Paris.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.London and Spain.

4.How old was he when he moved to Paris and how old was he when he died?

A.Twenty-three and ninety.

B.Twenty-three and ninety-one.

C.Nineteen and ninety-one.

D.Nineteen and ninety.

5.What did he do when he was old?

A.He lived his life like a young man.

B.He looked for new ideas.

C.He looked for new ways to use his artistic materials.

D.All the above.

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Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was an artist and also an art teacher. He gave little Picasso the first lesson in drawing. The boy showed great interest in it and learned it very quickly. Picasso drew so well that he won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting at the age of 15. Later he studied in several cities in Spain. But no one could teach him because he had known so much.

When he was 19, he visited Paris. At that time, Paris was the center of the world for artists. Everything in the painting world was new to Picasso. When he was 23, he moved to Paris to live and spent the rest of his life in France.

In his 80s, Pablo Picasso still worked like a young man. He kept on looking for new ideas and new ways to work. He never stopped painting all his life.

Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists in the world, died in 1973.

1.Who was Picasso’s first teacher in drawing?

_____________________________________

2.When did Picasso win “Science and Charity”?

_____________________________________

3.Was Paris the center of the world for artists at that time?_____________________________________

4.Where did Picasso die in 1973?

_____________________________________

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从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项补全短文，其中有一项是多余选项。（10分）

Pablo Picasso（毕加索） was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher. 1.__________________He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.　 2.________________________

Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. 3.__________________When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live . 4._______________________

When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. 5.____________________________

When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old.

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阅读下面的短文，判断文后的句子是否符合短文内容。符合的写“T”，不符合的写“F”，短文未涉及的写“N”。

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was an artist and also an art teacher. He gave little Picasso the first lesson in drawing. The boy showed great interest in it and learned it very quickly. Picasso drew so well that he won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting at the age of 15. Later he studied in several cities in Spain. But no one could teach him because he had known so much.

When he was 19, he visited Paris. At that time, Paris was the center of the world for artists. Everything in the painting world was new to Picasso. When he was 23, he moved to Paris to live and spent the rest of his life in France.

In his 80s, Pablo Picasso still worked like a young man. He kept on looking for new ideas and new ways to work. He never stopped painting all his life.

Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists in the world, died in 1973.

1.Pablo Picasso was born in Spain.

2.Pablo Picasso won a prize of “Science and Art” at the age of 15.

3.Pablo Picasso was the only son of his parents.

4.Pablo Picasso lived in France for 91 years.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was born is Spain. There is no doubt he was one of the ________artists of the twentieth century. ________ he was a small child, he could draw and paint very well. ________the age of nineteen years old, he visited art galleries（陈列室） in Paris to learn ________ other artists. Picasso was _________ important painter who invented new ways of painting. For one period of his life, he used mainly blue in his paintings. Then with his friend, Georges Braque, he invented a way of painting called Cubism（立体派）. He tried ________ round shapes look flat（公寓）.

When a war broke in Spain, it made Picasso very _______ and angry. During the war, a town ________ Guernica was destroyed. So he made a large painting, ________ the name of Guernica, about the war. In the picture, a woman is crying and a horse is making a loud high noise. This painting, which is very famous, shows us _________ Picasso felt about the war.

1.A. great                             B. greater                    C. greatest

2.A. When                            B. Where          C. What

3.A. In                         B. At                C. On

4.A. front                              B. from                        C. for

5.A. a                               B. the                            C. an

6.A. to make             B. make        C. makes

7.A. happy             B. glad            C. sad

8.A. call                          B. called             C. calls

9.A. with                     B. without                 C. of

10.A. what                   B. how                           C. where

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Pablo Picasso was an amazing painter who created with colour and shape. His paintings opened people’s minds and showed there were many ways to express ideas.

Born in Spain in 1881, Picasso learned to paint at an early age because his father was a painter. At fourteen, Picasso began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Although Picasso did well, his teachers wouldn’t let him develop his own style (风格). So he changed schools. Though his new teachers praised his work, they still criticized (批评) it as being too unusual. Picasso made up his mind to express himself in his own way.

Disappointed at his job in Spain, nineteen-year-old Picasso moved to Paris, where he learned about abstract (抽象派的) art. However, an important development in his own style came along when his best friend killed himself. Picasso was so sad that he painted only in blue and grey. He painted the poor and the disabled. This is known as his “Blue Period” .

In 1904, Picasso’s painting style changed again when he fell in love with an artist model. He began painting everything with colours of red and pink. He mainly painted circus performers (马戏团表演) and artists during this time, called his “Rose Period” .

Picasso’s style went through another change as he began to learn about African art and geometry (几何学). Instead of painting with different colours, he used different shapes. His paintings surprised people because they looked like they had been broken and put back together incorrectly. Picasso’s new style became known as “Cubism”. Cubism was so unusual that it became very popular.

Pablo Picasso is most remembered for his Blue, Rose and Cubism periods. But his painting styles kept changing until his death at age ninety-two.

1.What were Picasso’s school teachers like?

A.Traditional. B.Careless. C.Friendly. D.Strange.

2.What did Picasso mainly paint during his Blue Period?

A.His friends. B.Artist models.

C.The poor and the disabled. D.Circus performers and artists.

3.How old was Picasso when he began his Rose Period?

A.14. B.19. C.23. D.35.

4.Which of the following sentences describe Picasso’s Cubism period?

① He used many shapes.

② He used different colours.

③ He was influenced by African art and geometry.

④ He painted broken things that were put back together perfectly.

A.①② B.①③ C.②③ D.③④

5.What is the passage mainly about?

A.The symbols in Picasso’s art. B.The secrets of Picasso’s success.

C.Picasso’s unusual human relationships. D.The changes in Picasso’s painting style.

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Li Shizhen was born in 1518. When he grew up, he liked his father’s job and he was interested in medicine. He read many books about medicine and found something wrong in them. So he decided to write a new one. He tried his best to study medicine. He set out many times on long trips to collect herbs(采集草药)and talked with old farmers. In this way, he learned a lot from the working people.

After many years of hard work and study, Li Shizhen at last finished his great work, the Ben Cao Gang Mu in 1578. The book was one of the most important books in the medical science of the world.

1.Li Shizhen’s father was a ________ perhaps.

2.He decided to write a new medical book because there were ________ .

3.He often traveled long way for ________.

4.“his great work” means his ________Ben Cao Gang Mu.

5.He finished his work when he was________years old.

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任务型阅读。

Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890, but his childhood was not a happy one. His father died when he was only six, so his mother needed to find a job. She went to a shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister. That was when he first learned to cook.

He left home when he was thirteen and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became a service station manager in North Corbin, Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travellers who stopped at the service station, and soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to a 142 seat restaurant where he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years, he developed the secret chicken recipe that made him famous.

During the World War Ⅱ , he had to close the restaurant and then decided to sell his recipe to other restaurants for a living. The first official(正式的) Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) restaurant did not open until 1952. By 1964, there were more than 600 KFC restaurants in North America. That year Harland sold the company(公司) for 2 million dollars, but he continued to work as KFC's public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled 200,000 miles every year until he died in 1980 aged 90.

There are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries. They sell 2.5 billion chicken meals every year and the recipe is still a secret.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1.What did Harland Sanders have to do when he was 6? (within 14 words)

________________________________________________________________________

2.How long did it take Harland Sanders to develop his secret chicken recipe? (within 5 words)

_________________________________________________________________________

3.When did the first official KFC restaurant open? (within 2 words)

________________________________________________________________________

4.What did Harland Sanders do after he sold the KFC business? (within 12 words)

_________________________________________________________________________

5.How is Harland Sanders' chicken recipe now? (within 5 words)

_______________________________________________________________________

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John Flynn was born in Australia in 1880. His father was a schoolteacher. John studied hard and in 1911 he left the city of Melbourne and went to work in South Australia for the Presbyterian Church. The church wanted to help the sheep farmers who lived in the outback many kilometers from towns and cities. They built a number of small hospitals and found nurses to work there, but at that time there were only two doctors in all of South Australia.

One story Flynn often told was about Jimmy Darcy. One day, Jimmy had an accident on his farm so friends took him to see F.W. Tuckett, who worked at the post office at Halls Creek. It was a journey of 22 km. Tuckett was the only person in the area who knew anything about medicine. He tried to help but Jimmy was too ill. Tuckett finally talked by radio to a doctor in Perth, a city 1, 500 km away. The doctor took ten days to arrive. He travelled by car, by horse and on foot and when he arrived, Jimmy was dead. Flynn saw the planes could really help people in the outback. He wrote about his idea for a “Flying Doctor” in 1917, but it wasn’t until 1928 that a flying doctor actually took off. By the 1930s there was a Flying Doctor plane in every part of Australia.

1.The underlined word “outback” means" a_________ place.

A.popular B.lonely C.beautiful D.wonderful

2.What was the problem in South Australia?

A.The nurses weren’t very good. B.There were no hospitals.

C.There weren’t enough doctors. D.There were too many people.

3.What does Flynn tell us about Jimmy?

A.He know something about medicine.

B.He was a doctor.

C.He had an accident.

D.He wrote the book Flying Doctor.

4.What do we know about the doctor from Perth?

A.He travelled too slowly to save Jimmy.

B.He had problems with his car.

C.He didn’t know the way to Halls Creek.

D.He saved Jimmy’s life.

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