高考英语阅读理解liker冲刺训练Day 44
万圣节音乐Passage 1
The following safety risks may result in rious injury or death to the ur of the MINI Cooper S：
● This product contains small parts that are for adult asmbly only. Keep small children away when asmbling. Remove all protective materials before asmbly. Be sure to remove all packaging materials and parts from underneath the car body. existential
●Battery posts contain lead known to the state of California to cau cancer and reproductive harm. Never open the battery.
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● Body parts such as hands, legs, hair and clothing can get caught in moving parts. Never place a body part near a moving part or wear loo clothing while using the vehicle. Always wear shoes when using the vehicle.
● Using the vehicle near streets, motor vehicles, drop-offs such as steps, water（swimming pools）or other bodies of water, hills, wet areas, in alleys, at night or in the dark could result in an unexpected accident. Instead, u the vehicle on the highway. Always u the vehicle in a safe, cure environment.
●Using the vehicle in unsafe conditions such as snow, rain, loo dirt, mud, or sand may result in unexpected action, for example tip over.
● Using the vehicle in an unsafe manner. Examples include but are not limited to：Pulling the vehicle with another vehicle or similar device. Allowing more than two riders. Pushing the ur from the back. Traveling at an unsafe speed.
● Always u common n and safe practices when using the vehicle.
英文的自我介绍● Store the vehicle indoors or cover it to protect it from weather. Water will damage the motor, electric system, and battery.
1. When asmbling, you should ________ .
A. open the battery on the spot
B. ignore the packaging materials
C. make sure kids are not prent
D. start from underneath the car
2. According to the text, it is safer to________ .
A. u batteries containing lead
B. drive in small lanes at midnight
C. drive on the highway instead of on hills
D. wear loo clothes while driving
talking3. Where can you probably find the text？________
A. In an official report. B. In a medical journal.
杭州计算机学校C. In a physics textbook. D. In a product handbook.
Passage 2
Grant Wood's American Gothic is a painting that's puzzled generations who've stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it. We all know it:a rious-looking couple in front their gothic-arched wooden hou——in a style called Carpenter's Gothic, for which the painting is named. delighted
It was painted in 1930, when US artists were inspired to paint realist scenes of rural America during the Depression in a style that became known as Regionalism.
The couple are identified either as a farmer and his wife, or as a daughter with her unsmiling and over-protective father. Wood's sister, Nan, who pod for the picture, always insisted the two were father and daughter, perhaps finding the age gap too improper. The relationship has always remained interestingly conflicting.
Unlike her elder companion's fixed stare, the woman glances off to the side. Her expres
sion is actually difficult to determine. She looks sorrowful, or perhaps uncomfortable, though her straitlaced primness(拘谨保守的古板) is weakened by an escaping coil of hair at the back of her neck. As if holding guard against tho anticipated intruders(侵入者)——probably protecting his daughter-wife's virtue, though she doesn't em particularly happy about it——the man holds a pitchfork in a soldier-like fashion. And that is what lends the work its uneasy(不协调的) comedy. Everything about it is an artful t-up.
First of all, Nan never actually pod with the man in the picture, nor are they in any way related. Wood had spotted the hou during a drive to the town of Eldon in lowa. It immediately gave him an idea. "That idea was to find two people who, by their straitlaced characters, would be suitable for such a home," he later explained. The couple were actually painted parately, and neither sitter was painted in front of the hou. The farmer, as you might have already guesd, isn't actually a farmer, but a certain Dr Bryon McKeeby, a wealthy dentist from Cedar Rapids, where Wood lived with his mother and sister. The couple's clothing too has been carefully handpicked by the artist.
In addition, both their faces, Nan's in particular, have been thinned and lengthened, as has the famous gothic window and roof. And, if you look carefully, you might even detect something funereal about the scene, beyond the tombstone features of the couple. It's suggested by the woman's primly buttoned black dress, and in the man's smart black overcoat.
Some thought the work mercilessly laughed at the lifestyle in the Midwest. Meanwhile, some critics praid the painting as a cutting small-town satire(讽刺). Still others saw the painting as honoring the Midwest and its strong values.
converter Regarding the painting's comic tone, Wood himlf gave contradictory accounts. "There is a satire in it," he once said, "but only as there is satire in ant realistic statement. " Perhaps it is this ambiguity that has made the painting the most symbolic in US history.
