1 Unit 3 能力提高题Ⅱ.语言知识及应用(共两节,满分 35 分) 第一节:完形填空(共 10 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 20 分) 阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从 21~ 30 各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Frank Swain, an 18-year-old art student, was mended by Judson Livingston, head of the Atlantic Art Institute, to teach Ellsworth to paint one afternoon a week for ten dollars an ,a patient who had suffered several failures in business, did not show much interest in painting at first. But 21 the weeks went by, Swain ’s visits grew more 22. When the doctor called, Ellsworth would talk about the graceful lines of the chimney or the rich variety of 23 ina picture. The treatment was working perfectly. Ellsworth had no more trips downtown to his office for the purpose of buying some business that was to fail later. And no more crazy financial plans to try the strength of his 24 old heart. Art was plete cure for him. The doctor thought it safe to 25 Ellsworth to visit the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and other 26. An entirely new world opened up its mysteries to him. The old man showed a great 27 in the art galleries( 画廊) and in the painters who exhibited in them. How were the galleries run? Who selected the pictures for the exhibitions? An idea was 28 in his spring began to cover the fields and gardens with color, Ellsworth printed a simply horrible picture which he called “ Trees Dressed in White ”. Then