题型：选词填空（语篇） 题类：模拟题 难易度：普通
上海市崇明区2020届高三英语二模拟试卷
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A. documentary B. categorize C. sense D. claimed E. rid F. outlook G. ballooned H. former I. determined J. romantic K. drive |
Former World's Fattest Man Finds Love
He was once the world's fattest man weighing in at an incredible 980 pounds and consuming 20,000 calories (卡路里) a day. But it seems that after losing 672 pounds following a surgery, it's not just Paul Mason's health that has a more promising —his weight loss may have also promoted his love life.
Mr. Mason has only known his new girlfriend Rebecca for a month and the pair are yet to meet, but already the 52-year old has that Rebecca is the love of his life. The pair met online last month when Rebecca saw a television about Mr. Mason's extreme fatness—the result of overeating when a previous relationship ended. She was so touched by his situation as to get in touch, keen to help Mr. Mason get the NHS (National Health Service) to pay for a second operation to him of layers of extra skin.
Mr. Mason said: "She didn't really think of anything at the beginning. It wasn't until the second conversation that I realised there was more there than just friends. She felt the same and brought up the idea of us being boyfriend and girlfriend."
Mr. Mason says that he doesn't go for looks and finds Rebecca's attitude particularly attractive. "It is her personality, her and passion that has made me fall for her. We share the same ideas and interests and she has made me look at life in a new way. For a long time I couldn't really see light at the end of the tunnel, but since Rebecca's been in my life I've got a whole new of worth and excitement."
Mr. Mason to his incredible size by eating ten times the amount needed by a normal man due to a compulsive eating disorder. As his weight rose sharply he was left unable to stand or walk before finally becoming bed-ridden and being looked after full time by carers.
Firefighters had to knock down the front wall of his home so they could use a fork lift truck to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed an operation in 2002.
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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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A. ultimately B. famous C separating D. conduct E. controversial F indefinitely G. claims H. compromising I wrestling J postponement K. addressing |
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery was preparing the wall text in 2014 to accompany an image of the boxer Mayweather Jr. During the process, the Washington museum decided to note that Mr. Mayweather had been“charged with domestic violence on several occasions,” receiving “punishments ranging from community service to jail time.”
Such context is common for {#blank#}1{#/blank#} subjects in art, but far less so for artists themselves. Men like Picasso or Schiele were known for mistreating women, but their works hang in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} museums without any asterisks（星号）.
Now, museums around the world are{#blank#}3{#/blank#} with the implications of a decision, by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} postpone a Chuck Close exhibition because of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of sexual harassment（骚扰）involving potential portrait models that have involved the artist in controversy. Mr. Cloze has called the allegations “lies” and said he is “being severely criticized.”
The {#blank#}6{#/blank#} has raised difficult questions about what to do with the paintings and photographs of Mr. close—held by museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London and the Pompidou in Paris, as well as by high-spending collectors—and whether the work of other artists accused of questionable {#blank#}7{#/blank#} needs to be revisited.
It is a provocative（引起争论的）moment for the art world, as the public debate about {#blank#}8{#/blank#} creative output from personal behavior moves from popular culture into the realm of major visual artists from different eras and the institutions that have long collected and exhibited their pieces.
“We're very used to having to defend people in the collection, but it's always been for the sitter” rather than the artist, said Kim Sajet, director of the Portrait Gallery, which has a large body of Mr. Close's work. “Now we have to think to ourselves, ‘Do we need to do that about Chuck Close?'”
“You can't talk about portraiture in America without talking about Chuck Close,” she added. “There are lots of amazing artists who have been less than admirable people.”
Whatever museums {#blank#}9{#/blank#} decide to do about Mr. Close, some say they can no longer afford to simply present art without {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the issues that surround the artist—that institutions must play a more active role in educating the public about the human beings behind the work.
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