单选题
Once there was a boy in Toronto. His name was Jimmy. He started painting (绘画) when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very good
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it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and a lot of people
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his pictures. They said, "This boy is going to be
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when he"s a little older, and then we"re going to sell
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pictures for a lot of money."
Jimmy"s pictures were different from other
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because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on
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of it, and the other half was always
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"That"s very clever," everybody said."
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other painters have ever done that."
One day somebody asked him, "Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures,
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not on the top half?"
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I"m small," Jimmny said, "and my brushes can"t reach very high."
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】be good at 意为“擅长于”。故应选B。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】由下一句中的“we"re going to sell...”，可知此空应填 bought。故应选A。