[单项选择]Michael Smith is a local artist well-known for his paintings of ______ landscapes.


A. striking
B. portable
C. radical
D. false

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Passage Three
Mr. Smith gave his wife ten pound for her birthday--ten pretty pound notes. So the day after her birthday, Mrs Smith went shopping. She queued for a bus, got on and sat down next to an old lady. After a while, she noticed that the old lady’s handbag was open. Inside it she saw a wad of pound notes exactly like the one her husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag--the notes were gone! Mrs Smith was sure that the old lady who was sitting next to her had stolen them. She thought she would have to call the police; but, as she disliked making a fuss and getting people into trouble, she decide to take back the money from the old lady’s handbag and say nothing more about it. She looked round the bus to make sure nobody was watching, then she carefully put her hand into the old lady’s bag, took the notes and put them in her own bag.
When she got home that evening, she showed her husband the beautiful hat she had
A. after a while
B. on her birthday
C. the day after her birthday
D. ten days later

[单项选择]Mr. Smith parked his car two hundred meters away because ______


A. there was no police notice there.
B. he liked to walk home.
C. there was no room near his house.

[单项选择]Mr. Smith asked his secretary to （）a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.
A. invade
B. install
C. insert
D. inject

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Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes that the public will listen and understand -- he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain. Because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that t
A. understand the world better
B. notice the shapes and colors that express his experience
C. know those shapes and colors
D. feel comfortable and at ease