Question

A rich American goes to Paris and buys a picture from a French artist. The American thinks the picture is very fine because he pays a lot of money for it. However, when he comes to his hotel and wants to hang（懸掛） the picture up on the wall, he could not tell which is the top and which is the bottom of the picture. He turns the painting this way and that, but still cannot decide which is the top and which is the bottom.

So he thinks of a plan. He hangs the painting in the dining room and invites the painter of the picture to dinner. When the painter comes, the American says nothing to him about the picture. They go into the dinning room to have dinner. Then the painter begins to have his soup.

He looks at the picture several times. When he begins to eat his fish, he puts on his glasses and looks at the picture again. Before he begins to eat his fish, he gets up and walks over to the picture in order to look at it closely and clearly. At last, when he begins to drink his coffee, he finds that the picture is upside down.

“Why, my friend,” he says,“ my picture is upside down.” “Indeed! Why did it take you so long to find that out?” says the American. “You painted it, did you?”

1.Where did the rich man buy this picture?

A. France B. America C. England D. Australia

2.The American thinks the picture is fine because__________.

A. he pays a lot of money for it B. he know it is a famous picture

C. the artist is a famous man D. he is good at painting

3.The American can’t put the picture on the wall because __________.

A. the picture is too big to hung on B. the picture doesn’t look fine

C. he doesn’t know which is the top D. he is too short to reach the wall

4.He hangs the picture in the dining room so that __________.

A. everyone can enjoy the picture

B. the artist can see his own picture when he came to dinner

C. he can enjoy the picture in his meal time

D. he can see the picture whenever he wants to

5.At first the artist __________.

A. doesn’t know what the picture is about

B. doesn’t see the picture

C. doesn’t know who painted the picture

D. doesn’t find the picture

1.A 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A 【解析】 本文講述了一個(gè)美國人花了很多錢在巴黎買了一幅畫，但是他不知道這幅畫哪一端是頂端。于是他想了個(gè)主意，把這幅畫掛在餐廳里，邀請(qǐng)那個(gè)畫家來家吃飯。當(dāng)那個(gè)畫家吃飯時(shí)，他反復(fù)看了那幅畫，告訴這個(gè)美國人畫掛反了。這個(gè)美國對(duì)他說：“你怎么花了這么長時(shí)間才發(fā)現(xiàn)，這畫是你畫的嗎？” 1.A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)A rich...

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