Question

    There was a young painter who made money by painting portraits (肖像画). His dream was ________ famous. One day, a rich lady asked him to paint a portrait for her and promised to pay ________ 10,000 dollars.

After a week, the lady came to take the painting. The painting was wonderful, ________ she was not happy with it. She told the young painter, “I will buy this painting only for 3,000 dollars.” The young painter felt ________ at what she said. Then he ________ with the lady, hoping that she would keep her promise.

The rich lady said to the painter, “The person in the painting is me. If I don’t buy this painting, nobody else will buy it. So you have to sell it to me for 3,000 dollars.”

The young painter said ________, “No, I prefer not to sell it rather than be humiliated (羞辱) by you. Someday, you need to spend 20 times the money ________ the painting, because you break your promise today.”

After that, the painter worked very ________ day and night. Finally, he became famous in the field of art.

The rich lady soon forgot about the artist and what he had told her. But one day, one of her ________ told her, “There is a painter selling a painting called ‘Liar’ (说谎的人) for 200,000 dollars. The lady in the painting looks really like you.”

Then, the rich lady remembered the painter. She quickly went to ________ sorry to him and paid 200,000 dollars to buy the portrait.

1.A.to become B.becomes C.became D.becoming

2.A.he B.his C.himself D.him

3.A.so B.or C.and D.but

4.A.surprise B.surprised C.surprises D.surprising

5.A.talk B.talked C.talks D.is talking

6.A.angrily B.angrier C.angry D.more angrily

7.A.on B.of C.for D.in

8.A.hardly B.hard C.harder D.hardest

9.A.friend B.friends C.friendly D.friendship

10.A.say B.said C.to say D.saying

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.D

4.B

5.B

6.A

7.A

8.B

9.B

10.A

【解析】

短文主要讲了有位年轻的画家以画肖像为生，一个有钱人请求他给她画一幅肖像，等她来取这幅画时，却以对这幅画不满意为由，拒绝支付全额的费用钱。后来画家出名了。那个不讲信用的人不得不以200，000买下了那副画，比当时的价钱贵了20倍。

1.句意：他的梦想是成名。

to become动词不定式表示想要成为，打算成为；becomes成为，动词单数形式；became（become的过去式）；becoming（become的现在分词）His dream was ____1____ famous，句中was为谓语动词，所以空处应填非谓语动词，故排除B和C，而was becoming意为“正在变”，不符合句意，故排除D，was to become“想要成为”，故选A。

2.句意：一天，一位富有的女士让他为她画一幅肖像，并答应给他一万美元。

he他，主格；his他的；himself他自己；him他，宾格，pay支付，动词，所以后跟代词宾格形式，固定搭配pay sb. money“支付某人钱”，故选D。

3.句意：这幅画很美妙，但她对此并不满意。

so因此；or或者；and和；but但是，The painting was wonderful, 和 she was not happy with it.根据句意，可知这两句属于转折关系，所以用表示转折的连词but，故选D。

4.句意：年轻的画家对她说的话感到惊讶。

surprise使惊奇，动词或名词；surprised感到吃惊；surprises使惊奇（动词单数形式）；surprising令人吃惊，根据上文a rich lady …promised to pay _2__ 10,000 dollars.和I will buy this painting only for 3,000 dollars.可知那位有钱的女士曾答应支付1万美元，而现在只答应给3000美元，所以感到很惊讶，故选B。

5.句意：然后他和那位女士交谈，希望她能信守诺言。

talk谈论，动词原形；talked谈论，过去式；talks谈论，动词单数形式；is talking正在讨论，现在进行时，在Then he ____5____ with the lady中，he是主语，所以空处是谓语，本文时态为一般过去时，所以用talked，故选B。

6.句意：年轻的画家生气地说。

angrily生气地，副词；angrier更加生气，形容词比较级；angry生气，形容词；more angrily更加生气地，副词比较级，句中said为谓语动词，所以用副词修饰动词，根据句意，没有比较的意思，故选 A。

7.句意：总有一天，你需要花20倍的钱买这幅画，因为你今天违背了诺言。”

on在…上；of属于…的；for为了；in在…之中，固定搭配spend money on sth“花多少钱买某物”故选A。

8.句意：在那之后，画家日夜辛勤工作。

hardly几乎不；hard刻苦，努力；harder（hard的比较级）；hardest（hard的最高级），句中的worked为动词过去式，需要副词来修饰，而 very“非常”用于修饰副词或形容词的原级，根据句意，故选B。

9.句意：但有一天，她的一位朋友告诉她：“有一位画家以20万美元的价格出售一幅名为‘说谎的人’的画”。

friend朋友；friends朋友们；friendly有好的；friendship友谊，根据one of her ____9____，her她的，形容词性物主代词，所以其后跟名词，由one of…“…中之一”可知，其后跟名词复数，故选B。

10.句意：她很快就去对他说对不起，并花了20万美元买下了这幅肖像。

say说，动词原形；said（say的过去式）；to say（say的动词不定式）；saying（say的现在分词或动名词），由She quickly went to…，可知went“去”后跟动词不定式to say表示目的，故选A。