专题 6 阅读理解Ⅳ：词义猜测题 <br />[2015&middot;全国卷Ⅰ，C] <br />Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most popular of modern artists. The Pompidou Centre <br />in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with <br />an exhibition bringing together over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and more. Among the works <br />and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly The <br />Persistence of Memory. There is also L’Enigme sans Fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and <br />projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the <br />artist’s showman qualities. <br />The visitor will enter the World of Dali thr ough an egg and is met with the beginning, the <br />world of birth. The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through <br />the brain. <br />The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between two infinities (无限). &ldquo;From the <br />infinity small to the infinity large, contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus: amazing <br />Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museum-theatre in <br />Figueres,&rdquo; explains the Pompidou Centre. <br />The fine selection of the major works was done i n close collaboration (合作)with the Museo <br />Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and with contributions from other institutions like the <br />Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. <br />31. What does the word &ldquo;contributions&rdquo; in the last paragraph refer to? <br /> A. Artworks. B. Projects. C. Donations. D. Documents. <br />【答案】 <br />31. A <br />[2015&middot;全国卷Ⅱ，A] <br />My color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to buy it a little over <br />a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn’t <br />fit. I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model. I realized this a day later, <br />when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. <br />The set worked so beautiful when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations signed <br />off for the night. Fortunately, I didn’t get any channels showing all-night movies or I would <br />never have gotten to bed. <br />Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static(静电) noise. For some <br />reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds. <br />Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to <br />another channel and then change it back. Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to <br />pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound. I actually began to build up my arm muscles(肌肉) <br />shaking my set. <br />When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I ...