Nathan Sawaya"s childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and

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Nathan Sawaya"s childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he"s been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan"s work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan"s exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I"m proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
小题1:What did Nathan put on his desk at college?

A．The Statue of Liberty.	B．Superman.
C．His serf-portrait.	D．A Greenwich Village modal.

小题2:Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?

A．Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

B．Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

C．Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

D．Because he was going to work in the museum instead.

小题3:What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Nathan"s work.	B．Nathan"s exhibition.
C．Nathan"s art.	D．Nathan"s self-portrait

小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Brick Artist	B．The Brick Exhibition
C．Toy Bricks for Adults	D．The Artist"s Childhood

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A

解析

短文大意：本文主人公自从五岁时就对积木有很大兴趣，在大学毕业后放弃了做律师的高薪职位，投身于积木艺术创作，并取得了巨大的成功。
小题1:根据第一段Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.描述，可知选D。
小题2:根据第二段Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art.描述，可知选C。
小题3:联系下文Nathan"s exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.描述，可知这个人称代词指代的是南森的展览。故选B。
小题4:这篇短文中的主人公南森利用积木创作出了独特的属于孩子们的艺术，收到了人们的欢迎。故选A，积木艺术家。