英语学习是一个长期奋斗的过程，只有策略、技巧和方法是不够的,还必须有刻苦学习的 恒心和毅力。如果没有奋斗的激情，离开坚持不懈的努力，我们很难获得成功。同学们， 一起努力吧!笑到最后，笑得最甜。
Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to ___1___. Not only ___2___ want to say it well, but he wants to be something which ___3___ been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand — he wants to teach them and he wants them to ___4___ from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make ___5___ but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into ___6___ and colors, not words. They seem to feel a ___7___ selection of shapes and colors is exceptionally interesting for them and ___8___ showing to us. Without their work we should never have ___9___ these particular shapes and colors, ___10___ have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of ___11___ and from human bodies in motion and repose. Their choices ___12___ that these aspects(外表) of the world are worth looking ___13___, that they contain beautiful ___14___. Contemporary artists might say that they merely ___15___ subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is ___16___ more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely with reference ___17___ that character of their subjects.
If one painter chooses to paint an injured leg or a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention ___18___ a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something—all of which means ___19___, consciously or unconsciously, he is ___20___ to reach us.
1. A. students B. the students C. public D. the public
2. A. does he B. he does C. has he D. he has
3. A. has B. has not C. have D. have not
4. A. get B. obtain C. study D. learn
5. A. out B. up C. off D. after
6. A. shapes B. forms C. states D. conditions
7. A. kind B. sort C. certain D. exciting
8. A. worth B. thus C. so D. is
9. A. minded B. noticed C. worked out D. found
10. A. we B. they C. or D. but
11. A. nature B. people C. beauty D. mountains
12. A. states B. says C. tells D. indicates
13. A. out B. about C. at D. after
14. A. sights B. girls C. choices D. skills
15. A. take B. choose C. describe D. produce
16. A. no B. nothing C. some D. something
17. A. to B. for C. above D. as
18. A. on B. to C. for D. at
19. A. that B. clearly C. by the way D. hardly
20. A. doing B. getting C. trying D. having
【答案与解析】
1. D。the public 意为“公众”。
2. A。not only…but also… 连接两个并列分句，not only位于句首时，该分句要部分倒装;此句时态为一般现在时，故选does he。
3. B。艺术家不仅要好，而且要创新，即想使他的作品成为以前没有人说过的东西。which代替something作主语为单数，故选has not。
4. D。learn from sb 意为“向某人学习”。此句意思是：从他身上学到一些东西。
5. A。make out意为“理解、辨认出”。
6. A。shape“形状”。注意下文shapes and colors 也作了暗示。
7. C。certain 意为“某种”。
8. A。worth doing sth 意为“值得做某事”。此句意思是：他们似乎觉得某种形状和颜色的选择对他们是特殊的兴趣，并值得给我们看。
9. B。notice 意为“注意到”。此句意思是：如果没有他们的艺术品(work)我们就从来不会注意到这些特别的形状和颜色。
10. C。or 意为“或者”，用于并列否定句。
11. A。the world of nature 意为“自然界”，与后面的human bodies in motion and repose(动态和静态中的人体)相对应。
12. D。indicate 意为“暗示”。
13. C。此句意思是：他们的选择暗示世界的这些外表值得人们去看。
14. A。sights 指“风景”。
15. B。choose 表示“挑选”，与前面的choices对应。
16. B。前面的merely(仅仅、只不过)暗示了“再没有别的东西在里面”。
17. A。with reference to 意为“关于”。
18. B。attention 后面常接介词to。
19. A。用that引导后面的宾语从句。
20. C。try to do sth 意为“尽力做某事”。
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