A king once 【B1】 seriously ill. His doctors and wise men tried cure 【B2】 cure. But nothing
【B1】
A.fell
B.felt
C.feel
D.fall
【B1】
A.fell
B.felt
C.feel
D.fall
So the king made it 【B8】______ to all that if any person could discover the 【B9】______ and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the 【B10】______ , he would have the 【B11】______ he liked best to take as his wife, and would be king 【B12】______ his death. But whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, would be 【B13】______ to death.
A prince from a nearby country soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber (大房间) next 【B14】______ the one where the princesses lay in their twelve 【B15】______ .There be was to sit and 【B16】______ where they went to dance; and, in order 【B17】______ nothing could happen without him hearing it, the door of his 【B18】______ was left open. But the prince soon went to sleep; and when he 【B19】______ in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, 【B20】______ the soles of their shoes were full of holes.
【B1】
A.was
B.were
C.is
D.are
Then workers were sent for and a big platform(台子) was made.
With the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year and at last the pictures were ready.
Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform, but he didn‘t know it because he was thinking of his pictures.
The worker saw everything. “What should I do?“ he thought. “Thornhill was at the very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off it and surely be killed.“So the worker quickly took some paint(漆)and threw it at the pictures.
“What are you doing?“ cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.
1.It took them()to finish the pictures.
A.a month
B.a week
C.twelve months
D.half a month
2.The worker threw some paint at the pictures in order to().
A.save James‘ life
B.destroy the picture
C.make the picture more beautiful
D.make the king angry
3.James Thornhill was an English().
A.worker
B.artist
C.king
D.writer
4.James Thornhill felt that the()he was from the pictures,the()they were.
A.nearer...more beautiful
B.farther...more ugly
C.farther...more beautiful
D.higher above...more good-looking
5 . He was ordered to().
A.paint the wall of the king‘s palace in England
B.paint some pictures on the wall of the palace
C.build a big platform in front of the palace
D.put up some new pictures on the old wall