Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (積木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.

     Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自畫像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.

     Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.

     "I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."

1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?

A. The Statue of Liberty.

B. Superman.

C. His serf-portrait.

D. A Greenwich Village modal.

2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?

A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.

3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Nathan's work.                 B. Nathan's exhibition.

C. Nathan's art.                   D. Nathan's self-portrait

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Brick Artist                B. The Brick Exhibition

C. Toy Bricks for Adults           D. The Artist's Childhood

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Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More Ads! Turn on TV, still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to tell.

Here are some ways ads get us to buy.

Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drink? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.

Some ads make you think you’re getting the word of an expert. They say, “Doctor said.” A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use bright and white,” He says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.

Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their product with something nice such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts.

Ads are full of strong words, and words like “new” and “improved” have power. They can help a produce sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.

Some ads make promise. But can they keep them? No.

Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now!” They say, “Selling ends soon.” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.

All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.

1.Some stars appear in the ads because_________.

A．they know every product well

B．they are famous

C．they are all experts

D．they all like white coats

2.According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.

A．a(chǎn) kind of soap                          B．a(chǎn) kind of car

C．a(chǎn) kind of medicine                       D．a(chǎn) kind flower

3.The writer thinks the words and the pictures in the ads________.

A．tell us a story                          B．a(chǎn)lways make us strong

C．sometimes fool us                       D．keep promises

根據(jù)句意和所給的中文提示，寫出句子中的單詞。

1.Could you tell me the ________________ (高度) of Qomolangma?

2.It is well known that the Diaoyu Islands ______________ (屬于) to China.

3.People who eat a balanced diet should be ______________ (健康) than those who only eat biscuits and hamburgers.

4.The customs in Qingdao are ________________ (相似的) to those in Yantai.

5.Tom _______________ (準備) for the final exam. Please be quiet!

B. 根據(jù)句意，用所給單詞的適當形式填空。

6.He ________________ (be) a volunteer in Ya-an, Sichuan since the earthquake happened.

7.Mr. Jiang is a learned person, and he has lots of ________________ (know).

8.The little girl is very kind and she always talks to people ______________ (polite).

9.All the ______________ (village) living conditions have greatly in recent years.

10.My teacher did what he could _______________ (make) his class lively.

—Is Tom still in New York or already back at home??

—I’m not sure _________. I’ll call to make sure.

A. if he has been back???? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. that he has come back

C. why he has come back??? ????????????? ????????????? ??? D. how he will be back