文档介绍：英语 2017年高三2017年浙江卷英语
英语
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简答题(综合题) (本大题共6小题,每小题____分,共____分。)
(共10小题;,满分25分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
Benjamin West,thefather of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only sixyears of age. But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him heneeded one. In htose days ,a brush was made from camel’s hair. There were nocamels nearby. Benjamin decided that cat hair would work instead. He cut somefur from the family cat to make a brush.
The brush did nottlast long. Soon Benjamin needed more fur. Before long, the catbegan to lookragged (蓬乱). His father saidthat the cat must be sick. Benjamin was forced to admit what he had been doing.
The cat’s lotwas about to improve.  That year, one of Benjamin’s cousins,, came to visit. He was impressed with Benjamin’s drawings. Whenhe went home, he sent Benjamin a box of paint and some brushes. He also sentsix engravings (版画)by an artist. Thesewere the forst pictures and first real paint and brushes Benjamin had ,whenBenjamin  was nine years old, for another visit .He was amazed at what Benjamin had done with asked  Benjamin’s parents if hemight take the boy to Philadelphia for a visit.
  Inthe city, gave Benjamin  materials for creatingoil boy began a landscape (风景) ,a well-known painter,came to see him work . Wiliams wasimpressed with Benjamin and gave him two classic books on painting to take books were long and dull. Benjamin could read only a little,having been apoor he later said,”Those two books were panions by day,andunder my pillow at night.”While it is likely that he understood very little ofthe books,they were his introduction to classical nine-year-oldboy decided then that he would be an artist.
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