The street lights come on at dusk and go off___（at dawn）.

At dusk they reached ()small village () east of ()Tai Mountain. A: a; /; the B: a; /; / C: the; the; the D: the; an; an

I was confused_________ (那一刻) A: at that moment B: at dusk C: at times D: at once

The sun set below the ______ and the dusk shaded into night. A: briefcase B: deputy C: horizon D: ornament

枯藤老树昏鸦() A: Withered vine, an old tree, a fainted crow. B: Withered vine, an ancient tree, crows at dusk. C: yellow<br/>vine, old tree and fainted crow. D: yellow vine, old tree and fainted crow.

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Simba and Nala were p___1____.They often played with each other from d___2____ till dusk. Simba hadlong been wondering about the s___3____ place beyond a mountain on thenorth border of Pride Rock. He once asked his father about it, but only feltmore c___4____ when Mufasa warned him not to go there. One day, Simba d____5___asked Nala whether she dared to venture beyond the border with him. In o 6 notto be despisedby Simba, Nala nodded herhead. They soon set off. Simba was so e 7 to get to the mountainthat on their way there, he looked round for several times and shouted to Nala“Come on, don’tdawdle!” When the sunset, they finally stood on the top of the mountain. Stretched before their eyeswas a large elephant g___8____. Both Simba and Nala became frozen withterror. But they could never imagine that a few s____9___ hyenas were crawling t 10 them from behind.

ApolloAmong the Olympian gods the one most widely worshipped was Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto. According to Greek mythology, Leto was driven by Hera from land to land until at last Poseidon took pity on her and brought the island of Delos out of water for her to live on. There she gave birth to the twins, Apollo and Artemis.Apollo was the sun-god. Dressed in a purple robe, he sat in his bright eastern palace at dawn and made ready to start his daily journey across the sky. During the day he rode in his carriage of gold and ivory, and brought light, life and love to the world below. At dusk he came to the end of his journey in the far western sea and got on his golden boat to return to his eastern palace.Apollo was the god of music and poetry. With his lyre of gold and his god-like voice he led the choir of the muses at Olympus. The music from his lyre was so inspiring that stones marched into their places in rhythmic time. On one occasion, challenged to a contest by the mortal musician Marsyas, he first excelled him and then whipped him to death for his pride. On another occasion, he lost out to Pan at a musical contest and transformed the ears of the judge, King Midas, into those of an ass.His son, Orpheus, inherited such skill from the father that his harp moved man and beast alike.Apollo represented youthful, manly beauty. His golden hair and stately manners combined to make him the admiration of the world. A fair maiden, by the name of Clytie, loved his beauty and glory so much that from dawn to dusk she knelt on the ground, her hands outstretched towards the sun-god, and her eyes gazing at his golden-wheeled carriage racing across the sky. Though her love was not returned she had never changed her mind about Apollo. The gods were moved at the maiden, and transformed her into a sunflower.

Passage 2 Early Autumn When Bill was very young, they had been in love. Many nights they had spent walking, talking together. Then something not very important had come between them, and they didn’t speak. Impulsively, she had married a man she thought she loved. Bill went away, bitter about women. Yesterday, walking across Washington Square, she saw him for the first time in years. “Bill Walker,” she said. He stopped. At first he did not recognize her, to him she looked so old. “Mary! Where did you come from?” Unconsciously, she lifted her face as though wanting a kiss, but he held out his hand. She took it. “I live in New York now,” she said. “Oh,—Smiling politely, then a little frown came quickly between his eyes. “Always wondered what happened to you, Bill.” “I’m a lawyer. Nice firm, way downtown.” “Married yet?” “Sure. Two kids.” “Oh,” she said. A great many people went past them through the park. People they didn’t know. It was late afternoon. Nearly sunset. Cold. “And your husband?” he asked her. “We have three children. I work in the bursar’s office at Columbia.” “You are looking very…” (he wanted to say old) “…well,” he said. She understood. Under the trees in Washington Square, she found herself desperately reaching back into the past. She had been older than he then in Ohio. Now she was not young at all. Bill was still young. “We live on Central Park West,” she said. “Come and see us sometime.” “Sure,” he replied. “You and your husband must have dinner with my family some night. Any night. Lucille and I’d love to have you.” The leaves fell slowly from the tree in the Square. Fell without wind. Autumn dusk. She felt a little sick. “We’d love it,” she answered. “You ought to see my kids.” He grinned. Suddenly the lights came on up the whole length of Fifth Avenue, chains of misty brilliance in the blue air. “There’s my bus,” she said. He held out his hand. “Goodbye.” “When…”, she wanted to say, but the bus was ready to pull off. The lights on the avenue blurred, twinkled, blurred. And she was afraid to open her mouth as she entered the bus. Afraid it would be impossible to utter a word. Suddenly she shrieked very loudly, “Good-bye!” But the bus door had closed. The bus started. People came between them outside, people crossing the street, people they didn’t know. Space and people. She lost sight of Bill. Then she remembered she had forgotten to give him her address—or to ask him for his—or tell him that her youngest boy was named Bill, too. (448words) 86. Mary did not marry Bill because .

Read the following passages and complete the exercises below: A Van Gogh’s Trip from the Attic to the Museum Amsterdam—For roughly a century, the painting Sunset at Montmajour was considered a fake. It was stored in an attic and then held in a private collection, unknown to the public and dismissed by art historians. But on Monday, the Van Gogh Museum declared the work a genuine product of the master, calling it a major discovery. Sunset at Montmajour, painted in Arles in 1888, “is a work from the most important period of his life, when he created his substantial masterpieces, like sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom”, said the museum’s director, Axel Ruger, in an interview. The painting depicts dusk in the hilly, forested landscape of Montmajour, in Provence, with wheat fields and the ruins of a Benedictine abbey in the distance. The area around Montmajour was a subject that van Gogh revisited often during his time in Arles. “Once or two early van Goghs do sometimes come out of the woodwork now and again, but from the mature period, it’s very rare.” Said James Roundell, and art dealer and the director of modern pictures for the Dickinson galleries in London and New York, which deals in Impressionist and modern art. Mr. Roundell said it would be hard to predict precisely how much Sunset at Montmajour would fetch on the market, but expected it would be “ in the tends of millions and quite a few of them”. He added. “It’s not the iconic status of something like the Sunflower , or the Portrait of Dr. Gachet. ”which sold at an auction for $ 82.5 million in 1990. Fred Leeman, a former chief curator of the museum and now an independent art historian and van Gogh scholar based here. Said the work, which he called “100 percent genuine”, contributes to an alternative understanding of the artist.” We have the impression of van Gogh as a very modern painter, but he’s working in the tradition of 19 th -century landscape painting.” He said. The painting has been in the collection of family for several years, and Mr. Ruger said that because of privacy concerns, he couldn’t release any more information about the owners. Until 1901, the painting was in the collection once owned by van Gogh’s brother. Theo, said Marije Vellekoop, the head of collections, research and presentation for the museum. His widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, sold it to a Paris art dealer. In 1908, the art dealer sold it to a Norwegian collector, Ms. Vellekoop said. Shortly after that, she added, “it was declared a fake, or not an original”, and the Norwegian collector banished it to his attic, where it stayed until he died in 1970. The current owners purchased it thereafter. They took it to the Van Gogh Museum in 1991, Mr. Ruger said, but at the time, experts there said they did not think it was authentic. Two years ago, the owners took it back to the museum, and researchers from the museum have been examining it ever since, Mr. Ruger said. Louis van Tilborgh, the museum’s senior researcher, said that since 1991, the museum has developed several new techniques for identifying and authenticating works of art. He said that all those methods were put to use when researchers had the chance to look at this painting again. According to Mr. van Tiborgh, it was painted on the same type of canvas with the same type of underpainting van Gogh used for at least one other painting of the same area, The Rocks. The work was also listed as part of Theo van Gogh’s collection in 1890. It has “180” painted on the back, which corresponds to the number in the collection inventory. “That was the clincher,” he said. Mr. Ruger added: “This time, we have topographical information, plus a number of other factors that have helped us to establish authenticity. Research is so much more advanced now, so we could come to a very different conclusion.” The last major van Gogh brought to light, the museum said, was the 1888 painting Tarascon Stagecoach, in the 1930s. The date of Sunset at Montmajour has been identified as July 4, 1888. In a letter van Gogh wrote to his brother the next day, he seemed to have described the scene: Yesterday, at sunset, I was on a stony heath, where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill and wheat fields in the valley. It was romantic, it couldn’t be more so, a la Monticelli, the sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold. And all the lines were beautiful; the whole scene had charming nobility.” (He was referring to the works of Adolphe Monticelli, one of the first painters van Gogh admired when he moved to Pairs in 1886, and who played a role in van Gogh’s to move to Provence.) Sunset at Montmajou is comparable in size to Sunflowers, which was painted the same year and sold for $ 39.9 million in 1987 at an auction at Christie’s in London. Van Gogh moved to Arles in February 1888 and spent time exploring the landscapes in Provence, and doing work “en plein air”, or in nature. He was particularly fascinated by the flat landscape around the hill of Montmajour, with its rocky outcropping and hay-colored fields. In a letter dated July 1888, he said that he had been to Montmajour, at least 30 times “to see the view over the plain”. Mr. Leeman, the historian, said that “in hindsight, many pointers in his letters and entries in catalogs of the 1900s have been linked to other paintings or misidentified.” Adding, “Here, we see a painting that fits those descriptions exactly.” The painting will be on view at the museum for one year, starting on Sept. 24, as part of the current exhibition, “ Van Gogh at work”, which focuses on other new discoveries about the painter’s artistic development. Mr Ruger said the current owners have not indicated what they intend to do with it after that. Fill in each blank with one word from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Sunset at Montmajou, a 1) _____________ of trees and sky in the south of France in van Gogh’s familiar thick brush strokes, was painted in 1888 but had been lying in the 2) ______________of a 3)___________collector who brought the painting in 1908 because it was 4)_______________as a 5)___________. The painting was unveiled at the Van Gogh Museum in 6) ____________ on Monday, with Axel Ruger, the 7) __________, describing it as a “Once in a life time experience”. The painting was 8) ____________based on comparisons with van Gogh’s 9) ____________ and a letter he wrote in which he described the painting. It could be 10) ____________to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother. Then, and said he painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888. A) dismissed F) landscape K ） director B) dated G) genuine L ） banished C) authenticated H) techniques M) curator D) fake I) portrait N) Amsterdam E) Norwegian J) attic O) Paris