2016高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解20_高考复习指南

2016高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解20

　　A. clean the painting to put it up for sale

　　B. look for the artist’s signature

　　C. use it for his wife’s photograph

　　D. find the painting’s true value

　　11. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the story?

　　A. In the end Pitt was asked to pay the correct amount of duty.

　　B. In the end Pitt sold the frame of the painting at an even higher price.

　　C. In the end the Customs Department had no right to revalue the painting.

　　D. In the end Pitt’s wife was regarded as an expert because of her wise suggestion.

　　(D)

　　For the person keeping a journal, whatever he experiences and wants to hold he can write down. But to get it down on paper begins another adventure. For he has to focus on what he has experienced, and to be able to say what, in fact, the experience is. What of it is new? What of it is remarkable because of associations in the memory it stirs up? It is a good or bad thing to have happened? And why, specifically? The questions multiply

　　(增多) themselves quickly. As one tries to find the words that best represent this discovery, the experience becomes even clearer in its shape and meaning.

　　Beyond the value of the journal as record, there is the value of the discipline it teaches. The journalist begins to pay closer attention to what happened to and around himself. He develops and sharpens his skills of observation. He learns the usefulness of languages as a means of representing what he sees, and gains skill and certainty in the expression of his experiences. To have given up one’s experience to words is to have begun marking out the limits and potential of its meaning. In the journal that meaning is developed and clarified (澄清、阐明) to oneself. When the intention of the development of that meaning is the consideration of another reader, the method of the journal redirects itself and it becomes the essay.