温馨提示：手机用户请点击下方“原网页”或“电脑版”进行查看本文，效果最佳！  听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
  14．What doesn’t the woman like?
 A．Chocolate cake.      B．Strawberry pie.    C．Some fresh fruit.
  15．What does the woman have at last?
 A．Coffee.             B．Chocolate cake.    C．Some bananas.
  16．What can we learn about this restaurant?
 A．It has plenty of food.
 B．It hasn’t much food in supply.
 C．It can satisfy every customer.
 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
  17．Why does the woman decide to buy a new pair of shoes?
 A．Because the old pair is worn out and shabby.
 B．Because the old pair doesn’t match the clothes she is wearing.
 C．Because the old pair is too out of date.
  18．What is wrong with the first pair of shoes the woman has tried on?
 A．Their color is not dark enough.
 B．They are uncomfortable.
 C．They are not of the right size.
  19．What has the woman bought in the end?
 A．A pair of dark brown shoes.  
 B．Two pairs of shoes.  
 C．A black pair half at price.
  20．Which shoes will the woman wear home?
 A．The old ones.   B．The black ones.   C．The new brown ones.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C、D），选出最佳选项。
                        
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   Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir（轰动）in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars. Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farmer and a younger woman posed before a white house brought the artist instant fame.
 
   In 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, noticed a small white house built in the small southern Iowa town of Eldon. Wood was so fascinated by it that he decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he thought should live in that house. In the painting, the farmer is modeled on his dentist. Dr. Byron McKeeby. His younger sister Nan served as a model for the woman （imagined to be the farmer’s wife or daughter）. Wood wanted to give a description of the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork (干草叉) symbolizing hard labor. Each element was painted separately; the models sat separately and never stood in front of the house. The Gothic style of the house inspired the painting’s title.
American Gothic remains one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting has become part of American popular culture. Some believe that Wood used it to satirize（讽刺） the narrow-mindedness that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture. The painting may also be read as a praise of the moral virtue or rural America or even as a mixture of praise and satire. American Gothic is one of the few images to reach the status of cultural symbol, along with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
21．What can we learn about American Gothic?
A．It won a prize of ￡300.
B．The two characters in it posed before the White House.
C．It was the first painting by Grant Wood.
D．It was on show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.
22．From the passage we can infer Iowa is in __________.
A．the southern town of Eldon      B．the Midwest of the United States
C．a European country            D．the city of Chicago
23．Grant Wood chose the two models __________.
A．to describe traditional roles of men and women
B．to praise the moral virtue of rural America
C．to make his dentist and his sister famous
D．to carry the story across the country
24．The title of the painting is based on __________.
A．the name of a small town    B．the man and the woman
C．the Gothic style of the house     D．the pitchfork symbolizing hard labor
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